Showing posts with label Space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Space. Show all posts

Monday, 10 June 2013

I AM A CYBORG

LONG JOURNEY

After two long years since my accident. I hope to at last be approaching the final stretch of recovery. I am two weeks post operative and now have a lump of Titanium in my left elbow.

Stuck with a brace for four weeks and no weight bearing or wrist rotation allowed, but maybe just maybe I can really once more type with two hands again. It will certainly make writing Origin II much easier.

Opportunity rover on Mars

OPPORTUNITY THE MARVEL ROVER

As the current two Mars Rovers continue their work on Mars, back on Earth scientists huddle over computers looking at the amazing results of not the newest rover, but the nine year old Opportunity.

Opportunity is an amazing mission, achieving far more than its original programming or its builders ever hoped. Mars is such a hostile world, you have the cold, the low light levels which can starve Opportunity of power. You have of course the fine grain dust that squeezes into every component, hinge and joint plus of course the hostile Sun, without the protection of a magnetic shield the Rovers receive high doses of radiation every minute of their existence.

So considering all the hostile conditions it is amazing that Opportunity is still running nine years down the line after its bumpy pillow landing. Not only is that some magnificent achievement, but it is still finding and discovering rocks and deposits that make its younger rover cousin jealous.

We now have enough proof that not only did water run freely on the surface of Mars, but that it was not all acidic. It is likely as the planet aged and lost what little magnetic shield it had that the surface gradually became more hostile and the water more acidic. But the key, the most important discovery of all, Mars had drinkable water in its distant past.

With that knowledge, and with the knowledge that in the past when Mar's core was hot and volcano's still spat hot rock, that Mars could have and was likely to be the cradle of life.

Not just a cradle for itself, but it could well turn out in the next decade that not only did it cradle its own life, but it may well have been the cradle for all life in our Solar System.

If you look at the surface of Mars it is cratered with huge Stella impacts. It is these impacts that brought life to Earth. Two of these impacts created us and maybe created species two, Vumans. 

This is the premise of ORIGIN, a must read Vampire Science Fiction crossover that reboots the entire genre.






Saturday, 1 June 2013

Huge Asteroid just misses Earth


The 1998 QE2 Asteroid flew past us, winding it's way through our Solar System. This rock is so huge it has enough gravity to retain it's own satellite. 

3 Kilometres across, the spherical rock passed just 6 million kilometres away. If you want to know how close that is, well the Moon is 200,000 kilometres away. so around 29 times further out than the moon.

In space terms, that is close, close enough for Earth's Gravity to affect it's future path.

Do we need to worry about 1998 QE2, no not really, it has been known for a while and it's orbit does not put it at risk of hitting us. But the risk is objects of this size we do not know about yet.

An object 3 Kilometres across would be a species ending event. It would vaporise most surface life, kill most plant life. Only burrowing animals would be likely to survive if they had enough food to last the cold barren period.



Nasa simulation of asteroid path

Vampires - The truth no one wants you to know.

How do Vampires Fly
Why do they want our Blood
Why do they live so long? 
Where and when did Vampires begin

All the answers, governments and the church did not want you to have are in Origin 

A Genre reboot 



Monday, 27 May 2013

Origin Book Release - Limited Editions Prize Give Away

To celebrate the release of Origin, ODO publishing are offering limited edition prizes. 

Just answer the following question

In Chapter 10, how did Jayne Bregger escape the Maintenance Room?

Buy your copy here
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ORIGIN-ebook/dp/B00CTS3ZX0/ref=cm_cr_pr_pb_t



Email your answer to JoannasDawn@hotmail.com by 17th June 2013

Winners announced on 24th June 2013

The first five correct answers will receive limited edition Origin Launch Prizes signed by the Author.

1st Prize T-shirt & Mug signed Glossy Prints.
4 x 2nd Prizes of Limited Edition Mugs
Plus signed glossy copies of the book Cover
Closing date 17th June 2013
Winners announced 24th June 2013

Title your email
Origin Prize Draw
Include your Name and the answer in the main body.
Winners will be notified by email and announced on Origin Facebook Page and Origin Blog

Incorrect Entries will be ignored

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https://www.facebook.com/pages/Origin/189320131192372

ODO publishing is the final decision maker and winners will be drawn at random from the correct entries.

Sunday, 26 May 2013

ORIGIN'S FIVE STAR AMAZON REVIEWS


5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic new concept26 May 2013
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This is an exciting horror/sci-fi cross that i couldnt put down as it was very different to the normal.
Its about police investigator jayne bregger whose lives in a city on mars under a dome. She has been wanting to transfer to earth for years but it never happens then just as she gets the all clear a crime wave of strange murders starts happening in her city. This all originates from a ship that crash lands on the surface of the planet which jayne and her colleague go and investigate and thats where the bizarre adventure begins.
This story is face paced and action packed and i couldnt put it down,id read it during the day whenever i could. The characters are amazingly written and make you believe that you are there on the adventure with them. Its well worth the five stars and will recommend buying it. Go get it
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read.25 May 2013
This review is from: ORIGIN (Kindle Edition)
I really enjoyed this book. In fact I couldn't put it down. Fast paced and action packed. Enjoyed the new take on vampires too.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Vampires evolved25 May 2013
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Really enjoyed this book, a new vibrant look at vampires, scary and gripping . A real good read. Worth the download.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great SF and Vampires too24 May 2013
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This is a fast paced story in the classic science fiction genre but with the addition of credible vampires with a real back story. It has horror, tragedy, love and courage and characters I would like to meet again. This is a very good read.
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Saturday, 25 May 2013

5 ***** Review of Origin On Amazon Kindle

Great to be out of hospital after my arm operation to see my Origins First Five Star Review.

Still rated in top Fifty best selling Horror Novels on Amazon  Kindle

Have you got your copy yet?




Thursday, 23 May 2013

In for my OP tomorrow it will be nice to write with two arms, I hope. PS Thank you for supporting Origin

As I go in for my Op tomorrow I look forward to be able to write with both arms, its been two years since the accident.

Origin was written in frustration and with a new appreciation for people overcoming a disability. I have been given an insight which I will never forget.

I look forward to starting to write Origin II 'Vampires Revenge'.

Again a huge thank you to everyone who has bought Origin I, as a debut author seeing my first novel in at 44th Best Selling Horror on Amazon and 69th in the Science Fiction was a huge boost.


Thursday, 16 May 2013

ORIGIN - Buy it now or on KINDLE PRIME read for Free

ORIGIN 
Is now available to buy on Amazon Kindle



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Also available to read on Kindle Prime, 30 day free trial now available


ORIGIN is out tomorrow

ORIGIN is released on Kindle tomorrow

Her daughter Holly sat on the tiled white floor with her back to her. Mary sighed, “What are you doing Holly?” Holly turned, her face covered in blood the family cat lay limp in her hands, its entrails dangled sickeningly. Mary was stunned, she tried to breath but could not; her scream muted her hands and body frozen.

ORIGIN out on Amazon Kindle tomorrow