For your perusal: "A SWORD INTO DARKNESS"

[amaysingstories]

Hey, all.

I'm an occasional 3D gallery poster, and a big time lurker, but I only recently discovered the SF Writer's Forum here on SFM. Having found it though, I'm anxious to canvas the group.

I have written / am writing a hard SF - military SF - first contact - invasion - space Navy - origin novel. It's about 67 k-words right now and about 2/3 of the way done. It's my own universe, but very informed by the works of Heinlein, Weber, Ringo, Card, and Forward, as well as my own background in Physics and my ongoing 13 year career as an officer in the US Navy. If you like your SF hard, or your military action realistic (with a couple of fanciful fudges for storytelling's sake, of course) then this might well be your thing.

I thought to start out with a good'un rather than the actual beginning of the story, so I've posted Chapter 11 as a sample. It's a long, but pivotal and exciting chapter. If'n y'all like, I can post more or work out individual reader exchanges. If you have any comments (and they are encouraged), you can post them either in this thread or you can comment directly at the tail end of the post. Happy reading, and I look forward to hearing from everybody!

- Tom Mays