Author Archives: George Phillies

It was August 20,2020 Yes, it was a 20-20-20 day. Physics One is now for sale, paperback, for under $20. For the last year and a third I’ve been working on physics writing, notably Physics One and a review volume … Continue reading →

I have the cover for Stand Against the Light — Now all I need is the other half or so of the text. However, the words have started to flow again, 1500 of them today. The ten months I took … Continue reading →

I am making slow progress on Stand Against the Light and on Anglic Union Astrographic Service, and slight progress on ‘All the World’s Board Wargames’. At this time of year, gardens are very busy: plant bulbs, cut down everything that … Continue reading →

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.