Who Would Play Whom In The Film Adaptation of Discovery?

A long time ago, on a planet really nearby, I started a list of actors who I thought would play the characters in the first installment of The Darkside Trilogy were it to come to the screen.I have a page from my Daytimer dated November 21, 2009. In it (there will be no spoilers in this post) I listed the major characters and who I would love to have play them in a screen adaptation. So here we go:Norma Lancaster - Rosario DawsonAlan Richards - Justin LongJohn Mathews - Nicholas CageSydney…

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Sneak Peek of the cover design of Confrontation: Volume 3 of the Darkside Trilogy

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Confrontation: Volume 3 of the Darkside Trilogy - Chapter 2

Chapter 2Good VibrationsThe takeoff from Los Angeles International Airport was as smooth as it was familiar. Patrick Jensen had been back and forth between LA and Houston more times than he could count. On most flights he spent the time working on his laptop. He had an extremely heavy workload as head propulsion engineer for the combined Global Space Technologies/NASA outer solar system spacecraft.This trip he had to forego the work on the laptop because he had a seatmate in first class who…

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One Door Closes, Another Opens

The final installment of The Darkside Trilogy is on its way.Editing of the manuscript is in its last stage, and cover art by Winston Blakely is shaping up well.For those few of you who have read the first two installments of the trilogy I offer a peek into the conclusion of the trilogy, Confrontation.It's been ten years since the events chronicled in Discovery and Conception, and an uneasy Earth has been wondering what may come next. In that intervening time the scientists of Earth have not…

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