So, for some years I wrote STAR TREK fiction for POCKET BOOKS.
It was great fun and I learned, really, how to be a novelist in that time working with and getting advice from some of the best writers and editors in the business.
For various reasons I stopped writing STAR TREK stuff (though I don't rule out a return; there are lots of stories to tell in that universe) and, in fact, science fiction altogether.
I got into Urban Fantasy and Crime writing and, really, never looked back.
But, recently, I've been feeling the scifi bug biting me again. More and more of the stories that have come to me have been science fiction or, even better, some sort of mash-up of scifi and fantasy.
In looking over my work I realized I'd written a couple of stories for anthologies that were set in the same universe- the one where humanity is at war with brutal alien race we call the Mercanti.
This was my stab at so-called "SPACE OPERA", the genre that includes STAR TREK, ROBOTECH, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, STAR BLAZERS and lots more. One of the only drawbacks of writing tie-in fiction (and there aren't many) is that you ave to stick closely to what has been established by the original creators of whatever universe you're working in.
If you LOVE that universe, this is minor because, as a fan, you know it inside and out. But, SOMETIMES, there are stories you just can't tell.
FRINGE SPACE isn't exactly my version of STAR TREK. There is no Federation; there are no alien species (no intelligent ones anyway) except the Mercanti and they are trying to kill us.
But, if you like my STAR TREK work, you will find yourself very much at home in FRINGE SPACE.
The first two FRINGE SPACE stories are available in these anthologies for now if you can't wait (and want to read some other REALLY good stories).
SPACE GRUNTS - Truth Metric (Fringe Space #1)
WORDS TO MUSIC - Thanks to Captain Go (Fringe Space #2)
But I will be releasing them as individual yarns over the next few weeks.
You can read #3, FINA SILENTO, now with no problem because the stories do not connect directly.
Seller Text
Fringe Space is Geoffrey Thorne's galaxy-spanning tale of humanity's first contact with a REAL alien species, the MERCANTI, and the often brutal and bloody events that follow.
The Mercanti are truly alien and seem to have one goal: expand and kill anything that in any way blocks that expansion. Humanity's far-spanning civilization is in their way and we're not stepping aside for the Mercanti.
Told from various points of view, FRINGE SPACE is a space opera of galactic proportions that also manages to be personal and very very human.
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FINA SILENTO (FRINGE SPACE #3)
It's the long dark night of the soul for APEX's newly minted First Engineer. Can Cimarron Bell's genetically enhanced mind take the pressure or will the Construct crack?
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