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The Damage Patrol Quartet: Four Stories

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on December 23, 2021 by Michael D. SmithDecember 23, 2021

A feckless young architect falls in with a sixteen-year-old’s dubious trucking venture. Drug-addled Randy bemoans his fate as a slave employee in New Fascist Australia. An archeologist arrives on a tiny artificial gravity platform to give a scholarly lecture to … Continue reading →

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A Writing Biography, Part IV: The Perfect Cube and Beyond

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on November 2, 2021 by Michael D. SmithNovember 2, 2021

Recapping Part III as the Author Seeks Sympathy for How Terribly Difficult This Post Has Been In rereading Writing Biographies I-III I’m struck by how they stand outside my usual self-description. I remember all that history, but it was as … Continue reading →

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The Selector

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on June 10, 2021 by Michael D. SmithJune 10, 2021

It was eight o’clock. All was well, except that the Animals had somehow crept into the Selector Box and short-circuited the entire Darwin Building. As the Selector, it was my duty to investigate. Yet, at eight o’clock, I’d just finished … Continue reading →

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Jack Commer, Supreme Commander, with a Nod to the Crab Emperor

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on November 11, 2020 by Michael D. SmithNovember 11, 2020

With the shocking suicide of spaceship Typhoon I, the four Commer brothers are reduced to two. After the Final War, the evacuation of Earth, and battle with Martian terrorists, is eldest brother Jack fit to lead the United System Space … Continue reading →

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Balloon Ship Armageddon, Part 1 – Origins

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on October 11, 2018 by Michael D. SmithOctober 11, 2018

I completed my seventeenth novel on October 6. This is the first draft of Balloon Ship Armageddon, the seventh and last Jack Commer, Supreme Commander novel, a statement I make with crossed fingers because who knows whether I might ever … Continue reading →

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CommWealth – The Origin Dream

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on November 18, 2016 by Michael D. SmithMay 16, 2020

The idea for CommWealth came from the first part of these notes from a dream (“Their Satanic Majesties Computer Software Guide”), although successive revisions changed much of the plot. The second part, “The Tremendous Romance,” wasn’t used in the novel. … Continue reading →

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The Soul Institute is Published

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on December 16, 2015 by Michael D. SmithMay 16, 2020

“Back away from the novel and slowly put your hands on top of the Internet. Keep your mind where I can see it.” Sooner or later you come to this point. The time has finally arrived to push the novel … Continue reading →

Posted in Character Images, Collapse and Delusion, CommWealth, Double Dragon Publishing, Dreams, Editing, Excerpts, Jack Commer, Literary, Novels, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Sortmind, Sortmind Press, The First Twenty Steps, The Soul Institute, The University of Mars, Trip to Mars, Writing, Writing Process | Leave a reply

Homage Part 2: The Zarreich Enigma

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on April 19, 2015 by Michael D. SmithJune 27, 2019

As I did with my previous University of Mars post, I culled this essay from its original sortmind.com page. With the advantage of further perspective, I’m editing it considerably from the 2006 musings I made after scanning and editing the … Continue reading →

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Homage Part 1: Farewell to The University of Mars

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on April 4, 2015 by Michael D. SmithJune 27, 2019

I culled this post from the sortmind.com University of Mars page. I’ve always enjoyed this essay as a solid analysis of an unpublishable old novel, but it’s really a blog post, lost on a bazillion pages on sortmind.com, so I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in A Writing Biography, Double Dragon Publishing, Dreams, Dystopia, Early Writing, Martian Marauders, Novels, Publishing, Query Letters, Science Fiction, The University of Mars, Writing, Writing Process | 9 Replies

On Achieving a Slice of the Dream

Sortmind Blog - Michael D. Smith Posted on January 24, 2014 by Michael D. SmithJune 12, 2015

Novel publication by a royalty-paying publisher is a major milestone, and feels a hundred times better than self-publishing.  It means a lot that Double Dragon Publishing has acknowledged my potential.  I’ve also enjoyed learning much more about this entire process … Continue reading →

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