Discussions on NewEarth

On NewEarth when the humans plant seeds, some are genetically modified from old earth and then planted in new soil so they change again with new and different nutrients. Other seeds are indigenous to the new planet and have not been modified at all, still others come from other planets through the smugglers routes. In…

What do you think a longer lifespan would mean in your life? Dragons live 200-250 cycles, each cycle is 460 days. Each day is 36 earth hours.  If you were to do the math, I think you would agree that dragons have a significantly longer life on NewEarth than even the humans of New earth.…

In Heron’s Bonds you will meet a number of new characters, among them is Trissy, a human woman who has survived a great disease that went through her people, friends and family and killed most of them. She managed to save her little sister Jenny, and a couple of cousins also survived. Her older sisters…

If an opportunity to get on a ship and go visit another planet fell in your lap, would you go? Would you make plans to pay and relocate to a different planet to live? Would you be willing to walk away from modern technology for the rest of your life? You can imagine the small…

The planet of NewEarth is not just a power source, but a sentient being that directs, whispers and guides those she chooses to invest with her power. At the time of Gordon’s Pride, she has been working on adopting the humans into her web for two hundred years. The humans are not all as strong…

What kinds of talents can exist on NewEarth? This is a question I was asked by a reader, but I pretty much told him to keep reading. After some consideration I thought I could say a little more. The power of the planet can be used in lots of ways, including ways the planet probably…

It seems like an odd thing in a fiction book, but what did you think of Hanna’s washing trick? I really wish I could separate dirt from cloth and water from fabric. Not only would that be cool, but it would be so helpful. At one point we did not have a washing machine and…

Gordon is the central figure, as the Farmer in Gordon’s Pride, when the story begins. His good friend Heron has a companion friend Grabon. Grabon quickly befriends Hanna. This creates a close circle. Relationships drive my stories, probably because I see that relationships drive our lives. The relationship between Hanna and and Gordon are central,…

My version of old earth, the terra firma where our feet are planted, is that the environment became poisoned by humans. That led to space privatization to harvest resources for the human population. One day I plan to write the prequel of what it was like for those first settlers, leaving earth to green colonize…

Take a minute and look at the art on the website and you’ll see some interesting anatomy differences between dragons of old and my mammalian dragons of NewEarth. My dragons have two thumbs and three fingers. Same as their feet have two opposable thumbs and three grasping toes.  It makes for a firm grasp to…

While my artist Athena works on mapping the territory, I would invite readers to give their ideas of what they think it should look like. For the first and second book there is a growing list of features including the village, farm, hut, nest, sister’s house, forests, fields and cattle. There is also the Taylors…