Author Archives: George Phillies

Stand Against the Light spent some time being refractory, but I’ve overcome that obstacle. The manuscript is currently at 70,000 or so words, so it is perhaps half-done. It might be finished by the end of the year. I also … Continue reading →

Kidnapped! has been sent off to Fantastic Schools as a Submission for their Volume 3. Progress was made on the literature search for a technical paper “An Alternative to Quantum Gravity’

I decided I will finish Eclipse novels 3 and 4 before I finish Practical Exercise and Academician, the Adara Triskittenion background novels. There are 80,000 words of Eclipse 3 — Stand Against the Light — available, so it will finish … Continue reading →

Practical Exercise is up to 50,000 words, round number.Tales of the Anglic Union Astrographic Service is up to 30,000 words.The Merchant Adventurers is up to 49,000 words.

I have shifted over to working on the first Adara’s Tale novel Practical Exercise. I just passed 38,000 words, so the book is likely about a quarter of the way to completion. The volume could be said to be ‘student … Continue reading →

The $19.99 freshman mechanics text. About the Cover The two gentlemen on the cover are Isaac Newton (1642-1746) and Josiah Willard Gibbs (1839-1903), the two greatest scientific geniuses of the Second Millennium. Isaac Newton, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the … Continue reading →

Physics One, The Alpha Edition, is now being reviewed by Amazon for publication. They do a pass-through, then I get the paper galley proofs, and soon thereafter the book is published.

The more or less final proofreading pass has been completed. The corrections have to be entered and checked, formatting issues need to be adjusted, and then formatting for Amazon Paperback publication needs to be fixed. Sometime next month the book … Continue reading →

Academic Warfare — like the other kind, only deadlier.The young lady is Adara Triskittenion. The novel is the sequel to “Practical Exercise”, also now being written.  It will be a while before these are finished.  Cover by Brad Fraunfelter.

I retired to write and am writing. First, two of my books are on sale: Mistress of the Waves — now $1.00 amazon.com/dp/B008J4NLWI Designing Wargames – Introduction — now $1.50 amazon.com/Designing-Wargames-Introduction-Studies-Design-ebook/dp/B00JX4EUVO Then the writing projects: Physics One Last week I … Continue reading →