The Middle of Nowhere
By: Mackey Chandler
Third book in the “April” series.
Sequel to “Down to Earth”
April was tired and a bit depressed. Her trip down to Earth was a failure. She hadn’t rescued the two lieutenants who …
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Sequel to “April” – second chapter
I’m well along on my sequel to April. I have not named it yet and no, May will not do. It has some necessary lead in material that any sequel needs to catch the reader up to date. It may …
First chapter possible book
I’m tempted to write an action book similar to David Drake’s work or John Ringo’s Kildar series. The main character is a bit larger than life and the action fast and rough. The language is coarser without going totally nasty, …
“Eddie” A stand alone short story
“Eddie“
By
Mackey Chandler
I remember the first time I saw Eddie. We didn’t really meet. I was in the cafeteria trying to eat breakfast and there was the usual parade of people with problems, or petitions, or …
A new stand alone short: “Breakfast of Champions”
Breakfast of Champions
By
Mackey Chandler
Secretary of State for the United Americas the honorable Lewis Poule examined the urgent message printout with distaste. The third alien race known to Humanity in Survey System 8423, three hundred odd light years …
New stand alone short – “A Mother’s Son”
A Mother’s Son
By
Mackey Chandler
Theodore looked out the narrow port of the ballistic express and watched the glare of the sun disappear behind the curve of the earth. He’d be on the ground six hours before it managed …
Ball and Chain – A stand alone short
Ball and Chain
Mackey Chandler
“It’s this damn Slump,” Tim Kirkland grumped. “There’s no market for even Earth mined materials, how can Luna possibly develop an economy without exports? If it wasn’t for defense they’d have probably pulled back …
Godzilla sort of scene – snippet
This is from late in April past where I will snippet chapters. It deals with Home making war on North America. I hope I get the epic disaster flavor right-
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Martin Crain was seven hours into his work day. …
“April” First Chapter Snippet
Building on Prologue posted last – book is done at 200k words. A big fat book.
Chapter 1
Art checked the time again. It was 09:27, Sunday, Oct 3, 2083. He was finally past the three day hold he’d been …
Prologue to the book “April”
As an alternative to the last two previous snippets posted about alien contact, I have a book further along about a space habitat set in a much closer time frame. Here is the opening prologue for that book:
APRIL…