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[ST Ref: PT-B1-C5_220701: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Five: “Another Paris Meeting”.] SP: Barrie, one of your characters in chapter 5 of your book ‘Star Island’ makes reference to wormholes. Do wormholes feature in your novel? BC: Are you asking me to release a spoiler, Ian? (frowns). SP: This could be a short interview. BC:…
[ST Ref: PT-B1-C4_220625: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Four: “Dry River Cave”.] New Character SP: Barrie, in Chapter Four of ‘Star Island‘, the first book of your Planetoid Trilogy, you introduce a new character, Dr James Anderson, Jimmy, to his friends. I can understand you having such a character in an adventure story about an…
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[ST Ref: PT-B1-C3_220610: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Three: “Paris Interview”.] SP: Barrie, in your latest book, ‘Star Island‘, you have your characters using several modes of transport. In particular. some readers are wondering why you have them still using conventional fast rail between European cities. What about Hyperloop vs fast trains? Given that the…
Book Two, ‘Three Fates’: Seaswell Publishing are pleased to report the latest news on Book Two of Barrie Cameron’s ‘Planetoid Trilogy‘. Editing is in progress on ‘Three Fates‘. ‘Three Fates’ continues the story begun in the first book of the Trilogy, ‘Star Island’ Book One, ‘Star Island’: ‘Star Island‘ is already available from Amazon in…
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[ST Ref: PT-B1-C2_220520: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter Two: “Missing Physicist”.] This is the first of a series of Blog posts in which Seaswell Publishing (SP) interviews Barrie Cameron (BC) about aspects of his latest book, ‘Star Island’, Book One of ‘Planetoid Trilogy’: Why Paris? SP: Barrie, you are a New Zealander. Why did you…
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[ST Ref: PT-B1-C1_220512: ‘Planetoid Trilogy’, ‘Star Island’, Chapter One: “Oblivion”.] A key element in Chapter One, “Oblivion”, of my first ‘Planetoid Trilogy‘ book, ‘Star Island‘, is the ‘calibration test of the MiniAXE apparatus’. Effectively it is a science experiment. Today we take for granted that scientists and engineers use experiments to rigorously test their scientific…
What has the Fermi Paradox have to do with the Planetoid Trilogy?
You can now find Star Island in E-book as well as print-on-demand paperback on Amazon. Star Island, by New Zealand author Barrie Cameron, is the first book in his science fiction Planetoid Trilogy. The Planetoid Trilogy is a hybrid of hard and soft science fiction, with adventure, mystery, alien contact, and existential threats, Barrie Cameron…
Seaswell Publishing is pleased to announce that you can now purchase the Star Island paperback! Star Island, the first book in Barrie Cameron’s Planetoid Trilogy, is now available as a print-on-demand paperback on Amazon! We will be releasing the E-book of Star Island shortly on Amazon. As soon as it is available, we shall let…
