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Owing to unexpected demand upon the author’s time, Barrie Cameron has been forced to halt temporally all editing. Consequently there will be a delay to Book 2, ‘Three Fates‘. However, as soon as Cameron’s present urgent priorities have been addressed, he will resume editing of ‘Three Fates’, Book 2 of the Planetoid Trilogy. We shall…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C7_220813: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Seven: “Chance Meeting”.] Barrie Cameron makes reference to the Antikythera Mechanism in his science fiction novel, ‘Star Island‘. The reference relates to a gift, a watch, whose design is influenced by the Antikythera Mechanism. Origins of the Antikythera Mechanism The Mechanism was believed to have been built…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C6_220802: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Six: “Artume Project”.] Barrie Cameron has included a fictional space station in his science fiction novel, ‘Star Island’ (Book One of his Planetoid Triligy). He has located this large rotating station at the Earth-Moon L5 Lagrangian Point. He has created this L5 Space Station to provide a…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C5-A_220725: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Five: “Another Paris Meeting”.] Additional thoughts on Wormholes: SP: I understand, Barrie, that you have had some additional thoughts on our last Wormholes post. Hence this post: ‘Wormholes revisited’. BC: Yes, that’s correct, Ian. I was perhaps too reluctant to comment on a topic which is still…
‘Three Fates’, Book Two of ‘Planetoid Trilogy’: New publication date for ‘Three Fates‘ – end of September 2022: We have posted the new publication date for ‘Three Fates’ to correct our original estimate of July 2022. The original three months delay following the release of ‘Star Island‘ has proved to be overly optimistic. Both we…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C5_220701: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Five: “Another Paris Meeting”.] SP: Barrie, one of your characters in chapter 5 of your book ‘Star Island’ makes reference to wormholes. Do wormholes feature in your novel? BC: Are you asking me to release a spoiler, Ian? (frowns). SP: This could be a short interview. BC:…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C4_220625: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Four: “Dry River Cave”.] New Character SP: Barrie, in Chapter Four of ‘Star Island‘, the first book of your Planetoid Trilogy, you introduce a new character, Dr James Anderson, Jimmy, to his friends. I can understand you having such a character in an adventure story about an…
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[ST Ref: PT-B1-C3_220610: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Three: “Paris Interview”.] SP: Barrie, in your latest book, ‘Star Island‘, you have your characters using several modes of transport. In particular. some readers are wondering why you have them still using conventional fast rail between European cities. What about Hyperloop vs fast trains? Given that the…
Book Two, ‘Three Fates’: Seaswell Publishing are pleased to report the latest news on Book Two of Barrie Cameron’s ‘Planetoid Trilogy‘. Editing is in progress on ‘Three Fates‘. ‘Three Fates’ continues the story begun in the first book of the Trilogy, ‘Star Island’ Book One, ‘Star Island’: ‘Star Island‘ is already available from Amazon in…
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[ST Ref: PT-B1-C2_220520: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Two: “Missing Physicist”.] This is the first of a series of Blog posts in which Seaswell Publishing (SP) interviews Barrie Cameron (BC) about aspects of his latest book, ‘Star Island’, Book One of ‘Planetoid Trilogy’: Why Paris? SP: Barrie, you are a New Zealander. Why did you…
