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Warrior Princess Romance Writer
I am delighted to be the guest author this week on romance writer Bernadette Marie’s website. On Warrior Princess Romance Writer blog site, I am the featured interviewee today, will have a guest blog on Thursday, and will be giving … Continue reading
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Of All the Western Stars
My historical-time travel-science fiction romance novel, Of All the Western Stars, is now available on Kindle from Amazon.com! You don’t need a Kindle to read Kindle books. Just select to purchase the novel, then Amazon will ask if you’d like … Continue reading
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Flowers on the Moon
Flowers on the Moon is about a terraforming project of a type we seldom hear about–terraforming our own moon. I worked quite a bit on the idea that the moon could be made to hold a thin atmosphere if an artificial cap could be put on it–part of Heinlein’s ongoing idea that wherever there is mass and energy people can create a livable environment. The true theme of the story, however, is that the efforts and sacrifices of individuals can summon and change the future. Originally published in Private Galaxy in 2003. ©1998 D. A Houdek (Deb Houdek Rule) Continue reading
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The Most Powerful Man in the Universe
The Most Powerful Man in the Universe fits into the Those We Left Behind/Gandharvas/Worthwhile Things-Adjustments universe. One person can change the universe, is the theme. In this case one lowly, unknown man shapes the entire future. ©1998 D. A Houdek (Deb Houdek Rule) Continue reading
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Of All the Western Stars
Of All the Western Stars is a romance novel I wrote in days of yore when my then-to-be-husband and I were, well.. romancing. Rather than reproduce the novel here, it is now on a HarperCollins website called Authonomy. ©1994 Deb Houdek Rule (Deanna Lie) Continue reading
The Eternal City
The Eternal City is my favorite of the stories I’ve written. It began as a story exercise at a writing workshop at the Writers of the Future contest seminar and progressed into this story. It was accepted for publication in Pulp Eternity but now, unfortunately joins the “lament file” of stories accepted but never published. Because it’s a millennium story it became obviously dated in 2000. The character of Stifel is a true historical figure. ©1993 D. A. Houdek (Deb Houdek Rule) Continue reading
Ghosts
“Ghosts,” alternately titled “What Dreams May Come,” is the first fiction story of mine that was published. The story is fantasy based on an area of historical interest to me–England at the time of the schism; Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Originally published in Wellspring literary magazine, summer issue 1991 (in a shorter form). Reprinted in full length in Galactic Citizen, summer issue 1995. ©1990 D. A. Houdek (Deb Houdek Rule) Continue reading
Walking the Edge
“Walking the Edge” is a fantasy I wrote a long time ago. I suspect that everyone who writes sf/f at some point writes a variation of this basic story, and each of us, at the time, thinks it’s terribly original. Originally published in Jackhammer, April 1998. ©1989 D. A. Houdek (Deb Houdek Rule) Continue reading
One True Kitten
“The One True Kitten” is a Christmas fantasy story based on our Tasha-cat. ©1996 D. A. Houdek (Deb Houdek Rule) Continue reading
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Chimaera
Chimaera is a fantasy story containing violence and sexual situations. Consider it R rated. Originally published in “Galactic Citizen”, Summer issue 1993. Reprinted in Jackhammer, April 1998. ©1993 D. A. Houdek (Deb Houdek Rule) Continue reading
The 47th
The 47th is based on a brief time I worked at an institution of the severely retarded. I sometimes wondered if there was more going on within some of those people than anyone realized or gave them credit for. ©1991 D. A. Houdek (Deb Houdek Rule) Continue reading
The Last Ship
“The Last Ship” is based on the unknown fate of the Norse Viking colony in Greenland. Before the year 1000 A.D. Erik the Red, father of Leif Erikson, the discoverer of America, was forced away from Iceland as an outlaw so colonized Greenland. In an early marketing effort he named it Greenland to attract settlers. For a time the colony thrived, but as the climate cooled toward the middle of the millennium, and the Viking exploration and settlement era ended, contact with the colony ceased. By the time a ship sailed again from Europe to learn the fate of the Greenland Norse, none remained alive. Their exact fate remains speculative. This story is science fiction. ©1996 D. A Houdek (Deb Houdek Rule) Continue reading
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Season of Marvels
“Season of Marvels” is a dark fantasy based on the Icelandic Viking sagas of the 12th and 13th centuries. It’s written largely in the style of the sagas. This story was a near-miss story with many editors, intriguing them and gathering interesting comments, but–alas–not contracts to purchase it. ©1994 D. A Houdek (Deb Houdek Rule) Continue reading
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Viking-Trojan War
“The Viking-Trojan” war is another Viking story, except this one takes place in the present at my alma mater–the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. It’s a fantasy based on a dream that I had. Like “Season of Marvels” it’s gotten interested reactions from editors, with one acceptance to a magazine that regrettably folded before the story was published. ©1994 D. A Houdek (Deb Houdek Rule) Continue reading
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Those We Left Behind
“Those We Left Behind” is a prequel to “Gandharvas”. The story is science fiction. Originally published in Millennium Science Fiction and Fantasy, September 1998. Reprinted in The Best of Millennium Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine, Vol. 1 Issue 3, Winter 1998, republished in Private Galaxy in February 2003. ©1995 D. A Houdek (Deb Houdek Rule) Continue reading
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Gandharvas
“Gandharvas” is part of a series of stories aimed at ultimately being a novel or two. It was accepted for publication to a magazine that held it forever, then folded the issue before it was to be published. Much of the mysticisim in “Gandharvas”, including the title, was inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The story is science fiction. “Those We Left Behind” is a prequel to “Gandharvas.” ©1991 D. A Houdek (Deb Houdek Rule) Continue reading
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