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IFS-Mag Second Issue This is just a short post to announce that the second Issue of IFS-Mag, ‘The Independent Fantasy and Sci-fi Magazine‘, was released on the 1st May 2026 to subscribers of this great new fantasy and science fiction e-magazine. ‘Blue Planet’ We are pleased to mention that our author, Barrie Cameron, has a…
New Fantasy and Sci-Fi Magazine An exciting new monthly fantasy and sci-fi e-magazine has been launched from Australia this April 2026. Short Stories by Independent Authors This monthly new magazine is called The Independent Fantasy and Sci-Fi Magazine. The magazine exclusively publishes Fantasy and Sci-Fi short stories by independent authors. The first issue, for April…
New barriecameronauthor.com Site As of 15/03/2026, Barrie Cameron has launched a new Author website. This new site is independent of his existing Seaswell Publishing site at: https://www.seaswell.net/publishing/. barriecameronauthor.com site hosted by seaswell.net The new site is however hosted by seaswell.net, and the barriecameronauthor.com requests are redirected to: https://www.seaswell.net/barriecameronauthor/. New ‘Barrie Cameron, Author’ Website Separate from…
Star Island From PLANETOID Trilogy: Book One ‘Star Island’, by Barrie Cameron and published by Seaswell Publishing: NEWS FLASH! Astrophysicist disappears at secret lab in Nevada! “Dr Rebecca Stillwater, recently appointed lead for Artume Project’s new experimental dark energy AXE project has mysteriously disappeared in the middle of prototype apparatus experiment!” In Paris, a specialist…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C17_241028: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Seventeen: “Nice” – Meeting in Nice] Nice, France, features in Chapter Seventeen of Barrie Cameron‘s first book, ‘Star Island‘, of his ‘Planetoid Trilogy‘ novel, published by Seaswell Publishing and available from Amazon. Meeting in Nice Deric and Artume Project’s MiniAXE team travel to Nice in search of…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C16_241014: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Sixteen: “Photographs”] Dry River Cave revisited In Chapter Sixteen, “Photographs”, of ‘Star Island‘, Book One of ‘Planetoid Trilogy‘, Jimmy travels to Nevada to inspect the archaeology in the Dry River Cave. He joins Hank and his team and they revisit the cave and view its mysterious contents….
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C15_240930: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Fifteen: “Water Test” – Is the Universe a Simulation?] Simulation or Reality? Following on from our post, ‘What is Reality?‘, of the 22nd August 2024, [ST Ref: PT-B1-C12_240819: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Twelve: “The Port”.], this present blog post addresses the question: ‘Is the Universe a…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C13_240902: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Thirteen: “Questions and Some Answers” – Alien Archaeology?] Alien Archaeology? Yes, this one of the themes in Chapter Thirteen, “Questions and Some Answers”, of “Star Island“, Book One of “Planetoid Trilogy“. Are there really examples of Alien technology on Earth? Well, most likely not. There are those…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C12_240819: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Twelve: “The Port”.] What is reality? This is one of the themes of “The Port”, Chapter Twelve of “Star Island” of the “Planetoid Trilogy“. In this chapter, Rebecca continues her adventures on Star Island. What is reality? But what is reality? The French existentialist, Jean-Paul Sartre, asked…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C11_240812: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Eleven: “Engineering Opinion”.] Engineering Opinion Meetings can be tedious, boring even. And having too many of them can be inefficient and counter productive. And so can having too many people involved when only those directly involved in the subject of the meeting should be attending. So, with…