I’m Pete Prellwitz, creator and author, and I’ll be your host while you’re here.
Feel free to look about the site. You’ll be surprised and pleased with the amount of content here, all designed to firmly embed you in my universe.
Please… enjoy yourself!

duranium

An extremely dense metal that is used in the place of planed energy to act as a shield.

Well, I’m slowly learning how everything works here, and starting to add content. The Short Stories page has a complete listing, but so far only Grandma’s Grandma is loaded in. Turns out none of the paragraph returns and Enters in the original stories are coming over, so I have to load the story and then space it all out. A little tedious, but not too bad.

Feel free to say, “Hi!” in the working chat box to the right. And continue checking in for more updates and more content.

Pete

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Peter Prellwitz

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Hey, guys!

Pete here.

As you can see, the old Shards Universe site is down and this one’s in the process of going up. Over the next couple weeks, you’ll see it continue to expand and grow, filling up with previous content, but also with new content and new features. It’s all so new and raw right now that I won’t go into too many details, but I will say you’ll be able to add comments and contribute to the Glossary/Reference, which is something I’ve been wanting to let my readers do for a long time now.

A couple quick answers:

Yes, all the old content is coming back except the Old News Archive and maybe a couple small things. That means the returns of the tables, timelines, glossary, and probably most importantly, the Library.
Yes, the main menu is showing off a few new things. We’re keeping them and adding to them, but the structure of the menu will be changing a bit as we update.
Yes, if you want to email me with ideas and suggestions, I’d love to hear from you. I can’t promise I’ll implement your suggestion, but I will consider all reasonable ideas.

Feel free to poke around the site as much as you want, but I ask you don’t try to add anything until given the okay by either myself or Thomas F. Revor, Jr. (Call him “Thom Khatt”.) And the site will be pretty slow for the next few days; we’re working with my ISP to get that resolved.

Many thanks for hanging in there and checking up on me. I think the efforts and “under construction” period will be worth it.

PETE

PS: Bonus points for anyone who can tell me where this posts title comes from.

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Peter Prellwitz

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…that Horizons was my first published novel, but not the first one written?

I’d written all four books of Shards, first. (And it was from Book Four that I got the idea for Horizons.) But I knew I couldn’t submit a 300,000 word novel to a publisher, so I chose Horizons. I’m glad I did; it was selected by Mike Resnick as Best Science Fiction of 2003 and was the winner of the Draco award.

For twenty years Earth has been exploring the stars using faster-than-light stardrives whereby a manmade black hole pulls the ship through space. Dangerous to themselves and everything in the vicinity, the twenty-four starships, led by the flagship Horizon, have opened up new worlds to colonize.

Now mankind stands on the brink of a momentous breakthrough: Hyperidor drives; faster-than-light travel that is inexpensive, risk free, and available to all. All that stands in the way of vast exploration and colonization is a corporate behemoth that wants to see the hyperidor drive fail; no matter what the cost.

It is left to the Horizon’s Captain Pamela Carlson and Third Engineer Mahlon Stewart to decipher the means, motives and murders that threaten not only mankind’s future in space but the Horizon and its crew as well.

April 13, 2012:
- RavenCon 2012 (all day)