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Metal Boxes
by
Alan Black
Publication
Date: September 20, 2013
Publisher:
Alan Black
ISBN-13:
9781482774320
Genre:
Science Fiction | Adventure | Space Opera
Print
Length: 359 pages
Coming of age can be hard for anyone.
But for Blackmon Perry Stone it is life threatening. At 15, he barely manages
to graduate from the empire's cadet training by a talent for unusual problem
solving. He has trouble settling into navy life, but life becomes harder when
he uncovers a ring of thieves aboard the huge ship. Life becomes difficult when
they killed him. Stone is ejected into hyperspace in an escape pod without
hyperspace engines. Fully expecting to die, he reconfigures the sub-light
engine to escape the inescapable. To his surprise it works, but only well
enough to do little more than crash on an uncharted planet. It will surprise
him if he can make the engine work again, but not as much as it will surprise
everyone else if he can come back from the dead.
Metal Boxes
Trapped Outside
by
Alan Black
Series:
Metal Boxes - Book 2
Publication
Date: August 24, 2015
Publisher:
Alan Black
Genre:
YA Science Fiction - Space Opera
Print
Length: 313 pages
The sequel to #1 best selling science
fiction novel Metal Boxes. Blackmon Perry Stone hasn't gotten over his fear of
being outside and he still hasn't settled into life in the Empire's Navy. After
months of legal wrangling over his last assignment, he has been given a new
assignment. He was looking forward to getting an new posting on a spaceship or
a station. The problem is that his new job is on a planet. Worse, once there,
the base is overrun by the enemy aliens and now Stone is trapped outside on a
hostile planet, injured, and hunted by aliens bent of killing him.
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What IS a Metal Box?
Here is the official definition gleaned from the words of Alan Black, himself
Metal Boxes: space stations, space ships, and intersystem freighters
WHY are they so important to these stories?
Here is the official definition gleaned from the words of Alan Black, himself
Metal Boxes: space stations, space ships, and intersystem freighters
WHY are they so important to these stories?
Blackmon
Perry Stone never stepped into open air until after his twelfth birthday. His
agoraphobia is rampant and ceilings are a must. When he joins the space navy he
expected to spend his time inside navy ships. When he finds out he has to spend
time outside of the metal boxes he is used to, he has more problems than just
the people trying to kill him. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Alan
Black is a multi-genre author who writes for young adults on up.
He's
never met a good story he didn't want to tell.
I have been writing novels since 1997
when I started ‘Eye on The Prize’. My writing tastes are as eclectic as my
reading preferences. I admit that I love writing much more than editing and the
whole publishing process. Marketing of my novels leaves me as baffled as the whole
string theory thing.
I was born in central Kansas,
but grew up in Gladstone, Missouri, graduating from Oak Park Senior High School
and eventually earning a degree from Longview Community College. I spent most
of my adult life in the Kansas City area (with the exception of a few years in
the U.S. Air Force), but my wife and I now live in sunny Arizona. The dry
desert air stimulates my creativity more than the juicy air in Missouri
(pronounced here as ‘misery’).
I am pretty sure my desire to write
started in the second grade. I was given an assignment to write a short story
about Greek mythology. My teacher took the time to call my parents. Although
neither Dad or Mom remember the incident, it had an impact on me eventually
leading me to finally write (and most importantly finish) my first manuscript.
It took two years to complete ‘Eye on The Prize’. I have gotten faster since
then, completing the last manuscript in three weeks.
One thing Alan LOVES to do is Connect
with Readers Online and at Book Signings! Check his website for upcoming events
~ Chat him up at any of his links!
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"What we think in our hearts is the very essence of who we are and what we will become."
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MORE books by Alan Black
Chasing Harpo, Eye on the Prize, Other Times & Other Worlds
Anthology
Metal Boxes, Metal Boxes - Trapped Outside (Metal Boxes Series)
Empty Space, Titanium Texicans, Chewing Rocks,
Steel Walls and Dirt Drops,
The Friendship Stones, The Granite Heart, The Heaviest Rock and
The Inconvenient Pebble, Jasper's Courage (An Ozark Mountain Series)
A Cold Winter
&
How to Start, Write, and Finish Your First Novel
Fourth Prize (two winners)(Intl) – E-version of any of my books.
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