The new books are out from the latest Zombies-Need Brains Kickstarter. My own small contributions are in WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE, which I co-edited with that god-among-men (and editors) Joshua Palmatier, and contributed a story to as well. You can buy your own sparkly new copy here!
WHERE AND WHEN is an odd story. There are no people in it, for one thing. George Lucas supposedly wanted Star Wars to have no people in it either, only robots, but WHERE AND WHEN doesn’t even have robots. The idea came to me from a book I tried to write after finishing AVENDER IN AMERICA a decade ago, and which I only wrote one draft of before moving on to THE RISEN. (I thought THE RISEN would be much more commercial. (Ha!)) The idea is that first contact between species in a non-FTL universe would have to be by radio signal. Kind of like CONTACT, right? Unlike Sagan’s book, however, the aliens aren’t actually trying to contact us. Instead they’re trying to infect our computer systems for their own particular reasons.
WHERE AND WHEN is a story of how that might happen.
