My wife wanted a Xenomorph head for Halloween last year. I could not find a nice one to buy on time. So I built one out of cardboard. There is a guy on youtube I followed to make it. As for me, I dressed up in a jump suite with the T. Ocellus on my shoulder. It did scare a bunch of kids!
I am the author of the "Cosmic Thresholds" series. I have published 2 of my planned 12 novelette (18k words each) so far. Each book is independent and self contained hard science fiction stories.
Please check out the series here https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSXFNQ9M
"Starquake" [Coming soon..Cover and first chapter draft at https://www.alanvoss.me/books/starquake ]
A grad student finds an anomaly buried in archival X-ray data: a magnetar, twenty eight light-years from Earth. Solar physicist James Chen runs the numbers and realizes that a single starquake from this object could strip the ozone layer and reshape the biosphere. The radiation travels at the speed of light. There is no warning that can outrun it. And there is no way to know if the quake has already happened.
After ninety years in transit, the generation ship Shackleton reaches Ross 128 b, a tidally locked planet. The climate models promised a habitable zone. They were wrong. Governor Yuki Tanabe must lead 2,000 colonists across 200 kilometers of killing terrain toward a rift valley that might save them, or might be one more lie the data told.
Anya Okafor's father spent thirty one years studying the Great Attractor, the unseen mass pulling hundreds of thousands of galaxies toward a single point, hidden behind the Milky Way's dust. He died in his study in Lagos, surrounded by printouts no one would read, convinced he'd found a pattern in the static.
Thank you kindly.
Dear all,
I am the author of the "Cosmic Thresholds" series. I have published 2 of my planned 12 novelette (18k words each) so far. Each book is independent and self contained hard science fiction stories.
I am a long time astronomy geek and I am excited and nervous to present these stories to the world.
Please check out the series here https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GSXFNQ9M
"Starquake" [Coming soon..Cover and first chapter draft at https://www.alanvoss.me/books/starquake ]
A grad student finds an anomaly buried in archival X-ray data: a magnetar, twenty eight light-years from Earth. Solar physicist James Chen runs the numbers and realizes that a single starquake from this object could strip the ozone layer and reshape the biosphere. The radiation travels at the speed of light. There is no warning that can outrun it. And there is no way to know if the quake has already happened.
After ninety years in transit, the generation ship Shackleton reaches Ross 128 b. The climate models promised a habitable zone. They were wrong. Governor Yuki Tanabe must lead 2,000 colonists across 200 kilometers of killing terrain toward a rift valley that might save them, or might be one more lie the data told.
Anya Okafor's father spent thirty one years studying the Great Attractor, the unseen mass pulling hundreds of thousands of galaxies toward a single point, hidden behind the Milky Way's dust. He died in his study in Lagos, surrounded by printouts no one would read, convinced he'd found a pattern in the static.
Thank you kindly.