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About Tony Peak
Tony Peak is an Active Member of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America, and an Associate Member of the Horror Writers Association. He is represented by Ethan Ellenberg of the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency. His interests include progressive thinking, music, wine, history, Transhumanism, and planetary exploration. Happily married, he resides in southwest Virginia with a great view of New River.
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Blog postHere's the fourth and final of my Blade Runner essays, 'Tears in Perpetual Rain'. Writing these has been a journey not only into what the film means to me, but what my own life means to me right now. Thanks to everyone who has read these!
Link: https://tinyurl.com/mwy4jcd51 week ago Read more -
Blog postThe third of my essays on the science fiction classic, Blade Runner, is now live on Medium: https://tinyurl.com/yc7jzrx72 weeks ago Read more
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Blog postThe second of my essays on Blade Runner, 'Deckard Is(n't) a Replicant, is now up on Medium.
Link: https://tonypeak78.medium.com/blade-runner-deckard-is-nt-a-replicant-2d538c33ec73 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postHere's the first of four Medium essays I wrote about the 1982 science fiction masterpiece Blade Runner, coinciding with its 40th anniversary release this month. 'Blade Runner: A Dystopia of Convenience'.
Link: https://tonypeak78.medium.com/blade-runner-a-dystopia-of-convenience-36e13c5a6b171 month ago Read more -
Blog postI discuss the warnings inherent to Frank Herbert's epic saga and why it's more timely than ever: https://tinyurl.com/5n6buwms2 months ago Read more
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Blog postThis latest Medium essay offers insights into how I approached the development and writing of my EDEN trilogy from Aethon Books.
Link: https://tonypeak78.medium.com/the-post-apocalyptic-writers-toolkit-954c3abfc99c3 months ago Read more -
Blog postMy post-apocalyptic scifi EDEN trilogy boxed set is out today from Aethon Books! One reviewer says it is "Deep, well written, great character development and completely original." Grab a copy today!
Amazon link: https://tinyurl.com/yckj8ks5
Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITktlLHZ1Zk5 months ago Read more -
Blog postI was recently interviewed by my fellow author and good friend Scott Jessop for his Writing For a Living Blog. He asked questions about how I got started writing, what I consider my strengths and weaknesses, and how I maintain writing discipline. I really enjoyed this interview, as it felt more like a conversation, very laid back.
Check it out here: https://bitesizedfiction.blog/2021/11/08/a-conversation-with-science-fiction-author-tony-peak/?fbclid=IwAR21cTWkZpBdf0J7w-T8 months ago Read more -
Blog postI’m pleased to announce that I have signed a contract with Aethon Books for my space opera trilogy, REDSHIFT RUNNERS! The tentative titles are Parallax, Dying Suns, and Termination Vector. Parallax is complete, and I’ll be writing the next two installments this fall. I hope to see them released in Spring 2022 (ebook, paperback, and audio formats). I’ll be using a pseudonym, one that I will reveal soon. There’s lots of influences on these books, particularly THE EXPANSE series by James S.A. Core9 months ago Read more
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Blog postLink: https://tonypeak78.medium.com/what-writers-get-wrong-and-right-in-post-apocalyptic-stories-c1c77113c0be11 months ago Read more
Titles By Tony Peak
They hoped to create a paradise. Instead, they created hell.
Phoa was terraformed by nanite swarms for Earth’s colonists to create a beautiful, habitable world. But the swarms evolved, overran the planet, and two centuries later, threaten every living thing remaining on it.
Reyes, a scientist from Phoa’s last colonial enclave, and Thanata, a bioengineered hunter from a rival tribe, must work together to halt the Green: the massive swarm that absorbs plants, animals—even entire cities. But if the unlikely pair hopes to survive the mutated wilds and the deadly Green, they'll have to learn to understand each other.
Buy this special edition omnibus to experience this complete post-apocalyptic series.
This boxset contains three full-length novels:
Book 1: Eden Descending
Book 2: Eden's Tears
Book 3: Eden's Crown
Trestan Descaix, Napoleon’s best spy, seeks the Tenth’s hidden transcripts for Revolutionary partisans. The quest will send him across time, braving horrors from Borodino to Auschwitz, and ultimately to other worlds in a race to decide the course of humanity. Composers living and dead aid or hinder his efforts. Yet a mysterious competitor not only challenges him for the Tenth, but challenges the Enlightenment ideals he’s claimed to uphold—and his betrayals in doing so.
Phoa was terraformed by nanite swarms for Earth’s colonists to create a beautiful, habitable world. But the swarms evolved, overran the planet, and two centuries later, threaten every living thing remaining on it.
Reyes, a scientist from Phoa’s last colonial enclave, and Thanata, a bioengineered hunter from a rival tribe, must work together to halt the Green: the massive swarm that absorbs plants, animals—even entire cities. But if the unlikely pair hopes to survive the mutated wilds and the deadly Green, they'll have to learn to understand each other.
Don't miss this far future, alien planet survival series perfect for fans of J.N. Chaney, A.G. Riddle, and Horizon Zero Dawn. Grab your copy today!
Yet while exploring an old colony ship, they discover a message warning them of catastrophe. The voice belongs to Reyes’ estranged father, who warns that a final protocol left by the first colonists will doom Phoa. Soon, meteors land in every settled region and transform into swarms that devour everything around them—all while a huge, ringed structure hovers in the sky.
Reyes and Thanata must learn the secrets of Phoa’s past, as well as his father’s whereabouts, if they hope to guarantee their future.
Don't miss the epic finale to this alien planet survival trilogy perfect for fans of J.N. Chaney, A.G. Riddle, and Horizon Zero Dawn. Grab your copy today!
Though the Green has been temporarily pushed back, Reyes and Thanata face a new challenge in a deadly strain of coral biota that has spread over the region. It taints the planet’s rainfall, rivers, lakes—and all the wildlife that depends on them.
But there is a swarm-like signal inherent in the coral, which originates deep within Phoa’s biomorphic sea. Reyes and Thanata must rush to its source and stop the coral growth before it suffocates everything they have struggled to preserve—including the bond between them.
Don't miss this alien planet survival tale perfect for fans of J.N. Chaney, A.G. Riddle, and Horizon Zero Dawn. Grab your copy today!
Issue #2 includes 14 short stories:
"Winter Solstice" — Mike Resnick
"Da Capo al Fine" — Patrick Jameson
"The Reanimators" — J. Kenneth Sargeant
"A Concert of Flowers" — Kate O'Connor
"These Are The Things Our Hands Have Made" — Andrew Kozma
"A Trade of Tears" — Tony Peak
"Four Scenes From Wieczniak’s Whisk-U-Away, And One Not" — Ferrett Steinmetz
"The Unworthy" — J.W. Alden
"Verdure" — Brandon Barrows
"Million Hearts in the Valley of Death" — Savannah Hendricks
"The Fine Art of Fortune-Telling" — Michelle Ann King
"Marshmallow Walls" — Brittany Foster
"Grimm's Home for Geriatrics" — Rebecca A. Demarest
"JC the Ski Bum" — Joyce Reynolds-Ward
In the non-fiction section, this issue features:
-Interview With Award Winning Author Mike Resnick
-Interview With Author Tim Pratt
-Interview With The Editors of Strange Horizons
-Artist Spotlight: Sabbas Apterus
-Book Review: Warbreaker (Brandon Sanderson)
-Movie Review: Godzilla (2014) (Gareth Edwards)
The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous. The magazine also publishes horror and paranormal short fiction.
On a voyage to a mysterious moon in the Alpha Centauri system, the UEA Centaurus meets with disaster. Only the quick thinking of the flight engineer, Rachel Terman, saves some of the crew. Crash-landing on the moon, trillions of kilometers from Earth, they struggle to carry out their mission and try to survive.
But nothing has prepared them for what they will face. False readings on sensors. Bizarre nightmares. Crew members vanishing.
Then, Rachel discovers a blue, glassy lake.
And everything changes. If the signal abides - will humankind fall?
Jerr Manivo, a super soldier protecting the Dominion, can see a few seconds into the future. This gives him such battlefield supremacy that he’s been cloned by the thousands over many millennia.
But when his visions show the empire’s future destruction, his superiors mark him for termination. After escaping, he steals a warship and searches the galaxy for answers. What he discovers will not only bring the Dominion to its knees, but reveal who he once was—and who the empire’s victims hope he will be.
When a fortune teller named Sveta gives Tagen a Tarot card reading, she draws the Magician, a sign that he has an important role to play in the fate of Meridian—but drawing the forbidden card condemns them both to death for heresy before the High Priestess. They are saved by Andromeda, who once led a failed rebellion and means to use Tagen's powers to overthrow the High Priestess. Even as they are pursued by the Clowns through clockwork spires and abandoned ruins, Tagen causes the memories of those around him to awaken, inspiring hope in the lost souls of Meridian. But he must recall his own memories to understand why he is there and how to escape, and facing his past may be the most daunting part of his journey.
Wanderlust runs in Kivita Vondir’s blood. She dreamed of salvaging like her father when she was young, and now it’s her addiction, getting her through pit stops filled with cheap alcohol and cheaper companionship and distracting her from her broken heart.
Her latest contract to hunt down a fabled gemstone is exactly the kind of adventure she craves. But this job is more than meets the eye. For one thing, her duplicitous employer has hired rebel Sar Redryll—Kivita’s former lover—to stop her at any cost. For another, Kivita’s recovery of the relic unleashes in her powerful new abilities. Abilities that everyone in the Cetturo Arm—human, alien, and in-between—desperately wishes to control…
As she avoids a massive galactic manhunt, Kivita teams up with two unlikely allies: Sar and his enigmatic new partner. Only, as the gem’s mysteries are revealed and danger draws near, Kivita begins to wonder if her ex has truly changed, or if he’s just waiting for the right moment to betray her once again…
Issue #8 includes 10 short stories and one graphic story:
"The Light Comes" by TONY PEAK
"Minor Disasters" by ELISE R. HOPKINS
"White Horse" by KATE O'CONNOR
"ReMemories" by NANCY S.M. WALDMAN
"The Gunman on the Wall" by ALEKSANDER VOLKMAR
"The Magister’s Clock" by SIMON KEWIN
"From Mutsumi" by KJ KABZA
"Making Ends Meet" by JAROD K. ANDERSON
"Haze" by K.S. DEARSLEY
"For the Heart I Never Had" by RALUCA BALASA
"Shamrock – Part 3 – Fury Uncaged" by JOSH BROWN & ALBERTO HERNANDEZ
In the non-fiction section, this issue features:
Interview with Author Martin Millar
Interview with Author Fran Wilde
Artist Spotlight: Chris Drysdale
Science Corner: A Whirlwind Tour of the Human Genome
Book Review: The Goddess of Buttercups and Daisies (Martin Millar)
Movie Review: Time Lapse (Bradley King)
The magazine is open to most sub-genres of science fiction, including hard SF, military, apocalyptic & post-apocalyptic, space opera, time travel, cyberpunk, steampunk, and humorous. Similarly for fantasy, we accept most sub-genres, including alternate world, dark fantasy, heroic, high or epic, historical, medieval, mythic, sword & sorcery, urban fantasy, and humorous.
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