{"id":50,"date":"2022-05-31T11:53:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T11:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2022-07-18T09:37:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T09:37:04","slug":"rowneymarshal-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"What If &#8230; you judge RM books by their covers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video alignleft\"><video height=\"480\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 480;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/RM-Book-Art-2.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ABOUT RM SCIFI NOVELS:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each story takes place in a different world, adjacent to this one. You might meet some of the same cohabitants of the cosmos across the novels, but the same characters only reappear in the TRIAGE trilogy, so (with the exception perhaps of I-<em>Mage<\/em>, which draws on Terra<em>Rise<\/em>&nbsp;and Psyche<em>Somatic<\/em>) they all stand alone and don\u2019t need to be read in any order.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RM is an author without a narrative voice. Creatures speak for themselves, in all their limited self-perspectives. There is no Truth to be found, only meanings to be created. But endings are preserved triumphally, against all the competition of dystopias, lives win out collectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This could count as <em>hard<\/em> scifi, no magic, only possible cosmic laws, but the quests are existential and the selves wonderers and the paths fantastical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In reverse order of writing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Blurb-PanDemic.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pan<em>Demic<\/em><\/a><\/strong> abducts an 18<sup>th<\/sup> century girl, her spinster aunt, a snotty young man and a dog into a alien ark for humanity and into the middle of a cosmic incident that could infect worldsworths of futures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Blurb-DataMine.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Data<em>Mine<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em><\/strong>suffers from post-traumatic amnesia, travels through deep time and gets immersed in making virtual worlds real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Blurb-VigilAnte.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vigil<em>Ante<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em><\/strong>pulls together a disparate team of post-apocalypse tech-abled police trackers to locate an invisible vigilante, leaving no forensic traces, and uncovers clues with global significance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Blurb-RoamAntics.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">RoamAntics <\/a><\/strong>follows a surviving tiny Homo floresiensis through the giant so-called-<em>sapiens<\/em> centuries of planetary abuse and rises to challenges even worse than humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Blurb-enRaptuReD.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>eN<\/em>RaPTuRe<em>D<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has\u00a0clever lizards, enslaved humans,\u00a0revolutions and religions, aliens and asteroids, all\u00a0effecting the fate of the planet in a short novel for young adults.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Blurb-GreensWard.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Greens<em>Ward<\/em><\/a><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>blossoms through SleepingBeauty\u00a0as HanselandGretels return and deal with the Beast left by the WickedWitch we were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Blurb-WondrUs.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wondr<em>Us<\/em><\/a><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>paces the cages of human emotions and liberates the ferocious beast within,\u00a0opposed by the other hominid species, whose misdiagnosis of the problem leaves the cure worse than the disease and the saving miracle beyond the stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Blurb-KinDread.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kin<em>Dread<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0reveals humanity&#8217;s relatives, from home or away,\u00a0to\u00a0a couple of special\u00a0kids, whose insights challenge Earth&#8217;s whole definition of family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Blurb-MythICull.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Myth<em>ICull<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is a post-Flood world run by\u00a0collective human\/AI, with rebels and mutants and robots, needing new\u00a0stories to live by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Blurb-AbHomininAble-sNoMan.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>AbHominin<\/em>Able&#8217;sNoMan<\/a><\/strong> brings yeti myths to life, but then they wrote a different legend for themselves and us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Blurb-ReCreation.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Re<em>Creation<\/em><\/a><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>jumps bland humanity into futurespace, finds enemies within and without, and tests our species&#8217; creativity to make the next leap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Blurb-MeMoreAble.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Me<em>More<\/em>Able<\/a><\/strong> is a playful reaction to Mayan doomsday expectations, offering a full-scale apocalypse that\u2019s only avoidable through self-fulfilling prophecy and time travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Blurb-AMuseMeant.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amuse<em>Meant<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>tackles life, death and alien invasion in a world where the Roman Empire never converted to Christianity, but narrative lives forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rowneymarshal.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Blurb-RiskAVerse.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Risk<em>AVerse<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, 500 years from now, the planet impels AI\u2019s and humans to go a-Viking again, but this time the swanspath is through the heavens.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TRI<em>AGE<\/em>:<\/strong> Treatment of Rampant Individualism <em>Against Global Extinction <\/em>&#8211; 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