Ellendrí Chronicles
The Ellendrí have lived peacefully on their home planet for thousands of years, but even they cannot stave off the eventuality of change. As their sun gradually morphs into a red giant, they are faced with difficult choices, to stagnate and die as their planet turns into a desert world or leave, evolve and survive. Some among them are not willing to wait until the greater whole of their people have made the decision. Once revered as peace keepers throughout the Ll’Ellendrÿn, these rogue and exiled Ellendrí are now feared in the space lanes. And, for the first time in recorded history, there are hostile aliens on the borders of the Ll’Ellendrÿn. Can this ancient and declining race find a new existence in a universe that suddenly seems to be sliding into chaos? Can the remaining few Guardians of Peace stand against the exiles and uphold the dignity and beliefs of their people? Or are the old ones doomed to extinction by fate itself?
Image: Location of the Ll'Ellendryn within the Milky Way Galaxy. I decided a while back that I should write my science fiction stories under a pseudonym, partly to keep my fiction and nonfiction writing separate, but also, who is going to buy a book by Barb Faggetter (other than her friends)?? It's just one of ...
So here's the cover for my first novel ... Having some limited experience as a graphic artist, I decided, for better or worse, that I would design my own book covers. On the one hand, this will allow me to put what I like on the cover, since I feel that often cover art poorly ...
When I started my world building exercises, well over two years ago now, it all began with a simple question as I was writing the first few paragraphs in my book. What do my characters look like? Of course, I knew the answer in a general sense, but when you are trying to describe specific ...
To world build or not - that is the question. When I started my writing project with serious intents to publish a book (eventually), I really didn't have any expectations about the depths and extents to which my research would take me. My eyes are open a little wider now! In a very general sense, ...
So ... I've been doing lots of world building for my first novel. After getting it three-quarters written, I started having many questions that needed consistent answers, thus the exercise in creating a detailed background supported by a significant amount of research. Here's my first installment of background information ... written from Eldranth's point of ...
Here is the star map for the Ll'Ellendryn region in a bit more detail. This is a flattened, and somewhat figurative diagram, something like the old, artistic world maps for Earth (I didn't put "Here there be dragons", but that's kind of the gist of things). The star pattern, as shown in this map, will ...
The language of Ellendrí - an exercise in the creation of a constructed language (conlang). One of the wonderful things about writing fiction, especially science fiction or speculative fiction, is that I can make my world as unique and different from the here and now of reality as I like. However, as my fictitional universe ...
Here's my fourth, and final, installment of background information on Hauldryn's solar system ... written from Eldranth's point of view. To view the graphic novel, left click on the cover (either above or below). Left click will navigate you through the story. Background is an image of Malon and the Milky Way Galaxy.
Here's my third installment of background information ... written from Eldranth's point of view. To view the graphic novel, left click on the cover (either above or below). Left click will navigate you through the story. Ellendria and her moon Lyriel against a backdrop of the Milky Way Galaxy and the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy ...
Image: Malon, Hauldryn's seventh planet, with the Milky Way running vertically through the background. Creating gas giants brings an interesting philosophical perspective to the act of making art. You start out by selecting some colors which appeal to your imagination or your artistic sensibilities (not having any of those, I can only guess what choices ...
Image: Star map of the Ll'Ellendryn, the region of space in which my novels take place. I'm a scientist, and it seems to me that if I'm going to write some fiction, it's likely to be science fiction. Like duh ... OK, I'm probably wrong about that. Who knows (and I haven't researched it), maybe ...
Here's my second installment of background information ... written from Eldranth's point of view. For those who missed the first graphic novel, please go back to this post. To view the graphic novel, left click on the cover (either above or below). Left click will navigate you through the story.
Designing a solar system for Hauldryn (officially HIP 18433) was one of the first world building tasks that I set for myself. Hauldryn is the home sun for a number of the major characters in my novel, and having a good working knowledge of this system will assist in many of my descriptive scenes. To ...
Image: Diarven city on Ellendria. A work of imagination ... As a part of my world building exercises, I had created an entire solar system around the star Hauldryn (officially HIP 18433), with one inhabitable planet, called Ellendria. Now I would like to take you down to the surface of that planet. Hauldryn is reaching ...
As a person who lives off-grid with an old truck and older boats, I've often found myself crawling, squirming, or otherwise maneuvering into tight spaces within their mechanical anatomy in order to repair something or other that has chosen NOW to reach the state we commonly refer to as FUBAR. I find that my personal ...
What's a good sci-fi story without a spaceship? If you read any good science fiction writers' blogs, you'll probably come across the debate regarding space travel - is faster than light (FTL) travel "science" or "fantasy"? Many hard-core, conservative writers will claim that having FTL spaceships in a story violates "science as we know it", ...
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Ellendrí Chronicles
Graphic Novels
Worldbuilding