Where have I been? Focused on getting another novel out the door.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLG7PVM8
My book "The Rising World Company" is out! This is a sequel to "Rising World", the story of a modern engineering student who's sent to a fantasy world and becomes an inventor. He uses magic crystals for steampunk engines, and researches airships and machine tools along with spells.

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My novel "Rising World" is available as of today! You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09H5CQSX5
It's a fantasy story in which a modern student is sent to another world where he becomes a magic-using engineer... also a fox. Features slice-of-life style, dungeon exploration, divinely imposed game rules, and friendship.

It's been a while! Recently I published "The Dream of Aveire", which is the story of a high-biotech starship of immortals who terraform planets as a hobby. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BHLL49H
And a five-book fantasy adventure called "Wavebound", about 225K words total, first book free: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CBJGVCT

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I have a series of fantasy novellas out now called "Wavebound", about a novice water goddess:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08D3SW5WP?ref_=series_rw_dp_labf
They're unusual in that they're generated partly by using tabletop RPG rules. Cards and dice determined important facts and interesting details. I'm 10K words into a third story arc for this project!

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086BBLJL9

My new science fiction novel "Virtual Horizon" is out! It's about people who "upload" to a virtual game world under the care of a possibly too-nice AI, and about those who don't take her up on the offer. Obviously inspired by "Friendship Is Optimal".

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NBTSY44
My first book of 2019 is about revolution in a land where evil masked bureaucrat-mages oppress people with their telekinetic dart-throwing magic, and shapeshifting griffin knights patrol the skies.
Likely next book: a short SF novel about transhumanist high biotech in a massive, beautiful colony starship.

Another book in the Tales series, "Liberation Game", is now up on Amazon. I'm currently editing a direct sequel to "Crafter's Passion". The series is about AI, transhumanism, transformation and freedom in a near-future, basically realistic setting. Also, there are ponies.

I don't interact significantly with this site these days. You're unlikely to reach me in a timely way here; instead try my galleries at:
http://kschnee.deviantart.com/

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The book is currently #740 among Amazon e-books. Out of over 2 million. Also #4 in Kindle Hard SF, between Ernst Kline's "Ready Player One" and Andy Weir's "Artemis". And I don't know why, compared to all the other books! Is it that this one is about a regular human who doesn't upload, or that he's not a furry, or about him being more of an underdog than usual, or that I advertised by using the Kindle Scout system, or that there's a deliberate focus on game-rules stuff, or that I did a free

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My new book is finally out! This one is about Stan, a poor young man who encounters the game world of Thousand Tales and finds the growth and opportunity he's never had before. When the game's AI begins offering advice and asking for favors, Stan has the chance to make his real life into an adventure, if he can earn the greatest prize of all: control of his own life.

I've been deeply focused for the last few days on version 4 of a long-running game idea: something where you mostly talk to people instead of fighting. Not as in "there's a battle system but you can click a thing to say you talk your way out of killing". As in, "you walk up to NPCs and have something resembling a sane human conversation with them".

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