Author Archives: George Phillies

Essential University Not a book, but may turn into one. Welcome to Essential University. At this time we are not looking to raise money, hire faculty, or admit students. In a period in which the country’s first-line universities admit under … Continue reading →

Working on Practical Exercise, about a thousand words a day, with interruptions for other things.

Yes, Current Projects Practical Exercise — Adara’s First Several Years at Dorrance Academy 71500Academician — Adara flees Dorrance Academy 33760 wordsOf Breaking Waves — Eclipse 4 — 30,800 wordsInvasion now — Aliens appear around the world in contemporary times, bent … Continue reading →

Practical Exercise is beyond 70,000 words.

The Physics book is at about 25000 words and 100 references. It looks as though it will need about 400,000 words and 1500 references to complete. Practical Exercise is up to 66,000 or so words.

I do other writing and editing. Today I assembled most of an issue each of Tightbeam and The N3F Review of books. I also added 900 words to Indian Summer. I have perhaps found a co-author for the YA superhero … Continue reading →

Finished another chapter of the physics book. 51 references. This is the second completed chapter. Did light Edit of Indian Summer.

So far this month: 3500 words on Practical Exercise 5000 words on Indian Summer 15000 words on the physics monograph Alas the Goodreads review was wrong. I did not have a story in The Best of Baen’s Universe.

Practical Exercise is well over 62,000 words. Writing of the new physics review monograph is advancing, in that the references have been typed, all 1400 of them, and the task of writing the text has begun. I found a new … Continue reading →

Practical Exercise will be more involved than the Eclipse books. It will be more like MinuteGirls in complexity, even if it is all told from the perspective of Adara Triskittenion speaking in first person. The useful reading was Hildreth, History … Continue reading →