What's New

JPH Talks Online

Two talks of mine from recent times are now available online, in either MS Word or PDF format, complete with slides.

"Other People's Utopias," given at the Symposium for Infra-Free Architectures, Istanbul, Turkey, December 13-14, 2006.

"Flexible Thinking and Cosmic Electricity," sponsored by the USAF Munitions Directorate, Eglin AFB, Florida, August 16, 2007.

Cons & Conferences

No Cons are scheduled at this time.
Please check back soon for updates.

New Releases

"Escape"
Updated March 27, 2008
Short story focusing on the dreaded Vinge/Kurzweil "Singularity". A convicted killer accepts a deal to be the first guinea-pig for a mind-downloading experiment. The researchers feel this is a reasonable deal for the compensation of a reprieve from Death Row. But the subject has other plans. Included in an anthology entitled Transhuman, compiled by Mark Van Name and Toni Weisskopf. Baen Books, February, 2008.

Moon Flower
Baen Books, April, 2008
Why have two contact missions from Earth to the newly discovered world Cyrene disintegrated, with the bulk of their personnel vanishing, while the few who remain make no sense? The investigator sent to find out finds himself pursuing a political fugitive who has gone there to join a scientist from one of the earlier missions, whom the Terran authorities managing the intended "development" of Cyrene very much want back. The answer involves the difference between living and nonliving things, John Cramer's "Transactional Interpretation" of Quantum Mechanics, and a peculiar alien flower.

Japanese Editions
Anguished Dawn Tokyo Sogensha, August, 2007

The Two Worlds
Reissue of the third and fourth "Giants" novels (Giants' Star and Entoverse) packaged in one volume as a companion set to The Two Moons. Baen Books paperback, September, 2007.

Jailhouse Rock
Early "Knight" military caper. Audio adaptation in two parts released by Variant Frequency, October, 2007. -- Part 1 -- Part 2

Echoes of an Alien Sky
Updated January 19, 2007
Inhabitants from a future cooled, life-supporting Venus exploring the ruins of the extinct civilization that once existed on Earth. The strange thing is that as the Venusian scientists piece together more of Terran biology, the more it seems that the two families of life are too closely related to be coincidental. Some conclude that the Terrans must be their ancestors. But how could that be, when it is shown conclusively that the time scales cannot be made to match, even remotely? Baen Books hardcover, February, 2007.

The Proteus Operation
Added November 11, 2006
Spanish edition released by Libros del Atril, Barcelona, October, 2006.

Mission to Minerva
Updated October 31, 2006
Fifth novel in the Giants series, Baen Books Hardback, May, 2005, 408 pp., ISBN 7434-9902-6, $26.00 US, $37.50 Canadian.

U.S. Paperback, Baen Books, October, 2006, 569 pp., ISBN 1-4165-2090-2, $7.99 US, $9.99 Canadian.

Vic Hunt and Chris Danchekker head a small Terran group in a joint project with Thurien scientists to unravel the mysterious physics of the Multiverse. This enables a mission to be sent back to the planet Minerva 50,000 years in the past, before the time of its destruction, in an attempt to create a new reality unfolding toward an altered history.

"Murphy's War"
Updated October 16, 2007
Short story featured in the online magazine Jim Baen's Universe, August 2007 issue. The world's illustrious leaders have a bad day and try to start the Big One. But nothing gets launched when nobody can get the computers to work.

The Two Faces of Tomorrow, Graphic Novel
Added September 12, 2006
The 13-part comic book series collected together into a single graphic novel edition weighing in at 572 pp., $19.95 U.S. Released by Dark Horse Books, August 2006.

"The highest page-count graphic novel we've ever published. A pretty impressive volume!"

--Chris Warner, senior editor at Dark Horse Books.

Cosmic Power Grid online.
Added September 7, 2006
At readers' request, we've posted an online version of the essay on the electrical universe model that was included in Catastrophes, Chaos & Convolutions.

Full Star Child series online at Fictionwise.
Added August 9, 2006
Following "Silver Shoes for a Princess," Fictionwise have now made the three further stories, "Silver Gods from the Sky," "Three Domes and a Tower," and "The Stillness Among the Stars" available online to complete the series collected together under the title "Star Child." See link to List of JPH Fictionwise Titles on the Short Fiction page.

Pending:

Japanese Editions
The following releases have been scheduled by Tokyo Sogensha
Kicking the Sacred Cow Spring, 2008
Martian Knightlife Summer, 2008
Mind Matters Fall, 2007
Mission to Minerva, end 2008

Voyage from Yesteryear in Spain
Added November 1, 2006
Agreement concluded for a Spanish language edition with Roca Editorial de Libros in Barcelona. Details to follow.

"Giants" Series Movie & TV Option
Added August 9, 2006
Many readers have inquired over the years about the possibility of a movie adaptation for Inherit the Stars and the "Giants" series in general. We've now concluded a deal with MGM for movie and TV series rights for the full set. This doesn't guarantee that the option will be taken up and implemented--but you've got to start somewhere. So more in due course--hopefully.

Current Projects

Nonfiction book on Electric Universe theory
Added June 26, 2007

The organizers of an international conference that I attended recently in Las Vegas invited me there to encourage me to write a popular-level treatment of the subject, somewhat in the style of Kicking the Sacred Cow. As coincidence would have it, I had for several months been harboring a growing inclination to produce just such a book as a result of my growing fascination with the concepts involved, the more I learned about them. My agent, Eleanor Wood, is enthusiastic and think it would be a great idea. So I expect to be devoting time to preparing a book proposal along such lines during the months ahead.

Other Projects
Farm Cottage Extension
Updated October 17, 2007

In a flurry of activity in August, the ceilings and inside/outside plastering were all completed, and the electrics are in and working. Currently we're costing the plumbing, after which we'll install the floors. One thing I've noticed in traveling is that the laws of physics are different in the USA, enabling showers to exhibit water pressure. Europeans have to fit electrically operated boxes that are supposed to boost the supply, but in my own experience they've never been any good. So the plumbing is going in with sturdy pumps to send hot and cold water wherever it needs to go. The other two things apart from a shower that were always top of my list when arriving back in the States were an American pizza and an American salad bar. But I have to say that in recent years the offerings here have improved substantially in those departments.