Wandering Steps Across a Starry Sky
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In the not so distant future humanity begins its' third great age and begins to shoot vast slow moving colony ships off into the inky black distances towards the far off stars. What became of those adventurous souls who risked it all on the chance that they might find better more fulfilling lives on distant unknown worlds, might never have been known. But humanities' interstellar ambitions and ingenuity soon gain an edge as faster than light travel at long last becomes reality. And a second wave of exploration is begun as new ships leap out into the darkness tracing the paths of those first pioneers and seeking out those worlds were those first colony ships drifted through the centuries. The clock turns and a new age is begun as humanity becomes a race of many worlds, many cultures, and new peoples beneath the light of new stars. And with time a new interstellar community and government brings together all those far flung worlds.
In this next age, the Pyrius is just one of many ships darting about between the new and old colonies of humanities expanded territory. But for as much as they are just one tiny dot moving about against a vast landscape of black, the Pyrius is not your average ship and those who call her home are not your average crew. They are smugglers and are descended from families who were among the first to reach out into the dark to explore those stars. They are among those rare and hardy souls who some have called the 'gypsies of the stars', those who choose to call no world home and seek only to see what is beyond the ever changing horizon. Their only concerns are their family, their ship, their cargo, and their next pay day as they shift across the stars on an endless journey. But as they cross between places along a course few would choose to follow a single uncommon event leads them to a rare encounter among the darkness. This seemingly random event first changes their quiet days of sometimes lonely days of unending work, and then it changes the very nature of their lives and the future they might have followed.
Shiva Winters
I know, I am supposed to come on here and give everyone some deep insight into who I am and the nature of my existence, but for all that I have been writing for better than half my life and have been publishing the results of those efforts for several years, I have not in the past nor will I likely in the future do such a thing. To be perfectly honest, I am simply and without question just not that interesting, personally or professionally, perhaps that is an assessment that is overly humble or unfair, but it's a truth that is nevertheless fundamental. In a day and in the age when seemingly everyone is all too eager to document their every personal detail and display their every passing thought, I personally can find no compelling reason to do the same. Call it a quirk, call it a choice, or call it my own personal form of crazy, but there is me living through the dull-drums of existence and there are my books which at their core are the stories I've told myself over the years, and one category is considerably more interesting to me than the other.When I first started writing, all those years ago, I didn't begin by putting words to a page for profit, or because I had delusions that one day I'd be celebrated for my efforts. I did it because it seemed like it might be a good way to pass the time, and in that moment, though I hardly understood it at that time, I found something when I wasn't looking for it. Since then, as time has passed, and I have honed my abilities, the underlying element of that moment of self-discovery hasn't truly changed, Entertainment. I don't write books because I can, I certainly don't write them for the sake of profit, though there is a glimmer of hope that one day there might be more of that. I write books because it's fun for me, it is my own strange kind of hobby and my own odd form of self-entertainment. And even if were to reach a point on some future day where the scales tip and I feel that this whole attempt to publish the results of my efforts is no longer viable, I will undoubtedly keep writing, if only for my own sake. I first published my books after a long and troubled decision making process, which ultimately weighed out marginally in the favor of the idea, that perhaps because I liked my books a great deal, that perhaps there were people in the world who would find an equal amount of joy in them. While at times there has been good reasons to doubt that belief there have been moments when that belief has proven true.I am not like most writers, that is a truth best acknowledged right up front, I don't write my books thinking to imitate another author with their pulse pounding action, high drama, or unending tension. I write the stories I find interesting, create the worlds I think are cool, to follow the characters I like, through the events that unfold in front of both them and myself as we work our way towards whatever may come. I don't plot out my novels, I don't outline the story, I don't pre-program the dialogue, and often enough even I am surprised by the end of the current chapter as things change on a whim. My books are an organic process that grow and shift, free from over-sight and restrictions and ultimately often lead to place not even I can predict. Whether those who read my books like what comes of my strange hobby is more often than not is my very last concern, and while I might feel compelled to apologize for that being the case, it doesn't or won't change the facts in the end. Each book and each series I write are a result of the page's progress through the succession of each line and paragraph, loyal only to the facts on the page and require only the input of myself as a conduit in allowing those words to progress through their natural courses. So the end results of those efforts often enough take a path not even I expected, but I for one won't and will never change that fact.My books are often strange and unexpected, I feel it is only right to acknowledge this, and there have been some in the past who have taken exception with that fact, angry that I did not meet their expectations. But I did not write my books for them, I wrote them for myself, selfish though that is, and I certainly did not publish my stories for them. Ultimately I publish my books for the small percentage of people who might read them and like them, and for the occasional bits of far flung joy I get from having people tell me how and why they enjoyed something I wrote. If you are one of those readers who starts a book with expectations and the belief that it is the writer's job to meet those expectations, please look elsewhere. But if you are one of those readers who reads simply for the joy of it, without expectations of what you might find, than I hope you will like what I have written.
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