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Clorox Snippet # 5 Hunting A Mystery

Published by R. Lee Fletcher on March 5, 2023

You can do a lot with slide rules and Babbage Engines, especially if that’s all you’ve got and you have no choice . Eyrie of Speaking to Aliens Third Speaker to Aliens laid the sheaf of paper, still damp from the Enumeration Engine’s printer, before First Speaker to Alien’s perch.…

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Clorox Snippet #2 Welcome To Hellmouth

Published by R. Lee Fletcher on January 7, 2023

If you are to change yourself, first you must see what you want to be … SS Magellan, Snowball Orbit Snowball Base did not run to anything as grand as a space station. They waited for one of the colony’s two RITA nuclear landers to dock with Magellan, to take…

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Clorox Snippet #1 Life Force

Published by R. Lee Fletcher on December 17, 2022

Life is a powerful force, to create or destroy … Chapter 1 Ties That Bind Family is strength, and weakness. Persian proverb. Vancouver Spaceport, Launch Complex #4 Sheina Marshall put away her phone at the boarding call for the Galaxy booster to Bazaar Station, with the pang she always felt…

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Sympathy For My Characters

Published by R. Lee Fletcher on December 11, 2022

It’s a writer’s job to be tough on his characters, and I’m certainly no exception. In the Master Blasters series, the heroes have to work under tough non-negotiable deadlines, invent new methods and procedures as they go along, and master new tools under time pressure. Serious time pressure. Well, I’ve…

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Snowball Snippet #5 – With Beat of Drum

Published by R. Lee Fletcher on June 2, 2022

The search for serenity is a journey, and sometimes journeys take unexpected turns … Canadian Space Agency HQ, St. Hubert, QC, Contract Day 26 Dr. Chen Chao was at his desk in the Canadian Space Agency HQ building in St. Hubert, Quebec, working late on the latest data from SciSat.…

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Ordinary World is Boring – Or Is It?

Published by R. Lee Fletcher on March 7, 2022

The Save The Cat Beat Sheet, of which structure I am a fan, allows the first two or three chapters of the novel for the Ordinary World, the normal routine of the main character(s), before the inciting incident which kicks off the main action. The reaction of a lot of…

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The Evil Unstoppable Green Tide

Published by R. Lee Fletcher on September 4, 2021

Up to now, in the Master Blasters series, I have concentrated on the physical threats to a planet. Megavolcanoes, solar flares, and such. Biological threats have come under the heading of “We don’t worry about catching Dutch Elm disease, and we evolved on the same world as elm trees.” The…

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The von Neumann Contract – Released 15 Aug 2021

Published by R. Lee Fletcher on August 5, 2021

The final edit is complete, and “The von Neumann Contract” will hit Kindle and Amazon on August 15 2021, in both ebook – available on Kindle Unlimited for those who have it – and in paperback. The lower case v in the title is not a typo, by the way.…

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The Sanctuary Contract – Snippet #3

Published by R. Lee Fletcher on February 25, 2021

It’s Coming! The next book in the Portal Authority Contract series is now in final edit, and will be up for pre-order on Kindle very soon now. Chapter 3 Standing Up For Yourself Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to…

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The Fimbulwinter Contract – Snippet 3

Published by R. Lee Fletcher on December 6, 2020

The world is changing. The power of knowledge is in its application. Chapter 2 Yellowstone It’s shocking how little time is required to take a volcanic system from being quiet and sitting there to the edge of an eruption. Hannah Shamloo, Geologist Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, The Superblock 1046 Days to…

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