Alien Peacelords: Release Post!
Dec. 29th, 2023 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rowynOh right I wanted to do a release post for Alien Peacelords yesterday. Oops. Here it is!
Alien Peacelords: The Coriolis Effect
Why have a midlife crisis on Earth when you can have one among the stars?
After her third post-release layoff from a major gaming studio, Coriolis Washington is ready to try something new. Like, going-to-another-world new. And whatever her friend's lurid romance novels might say, Cori knows perfectly well that the alien world Fali-tan needs programmers to write code – not sexy women to fill out harems.
Despite being far more technologically advanced than Earth in most respects, Fali-tan's computers were no better than punch-card-driven mainframes, and had not improved in generations until the discovery of their long-lost cousins on Earth. Now, Fali-tan's population is eager to achieve their own Information Age, and technology companies bend over backwards to hire skilled Earth developers. Even some of Fali-tan's peacelords, leaders of their nations, will go to great lengths to attract people like Coriolis to their country.
… and the shocking, overwhelming physical attractiveness of humans is the least of Coriolis's charms to rival peacelords and ex-lovers Dhavoran and Tyvalon.
Author Commentary
There’s a subgenre of romance called “alien warlord”: science fiction romance novels, usually featuring a single human woman protagonist and one or more male aliens: generally very human-like aliens with a few nonhuman features, like blue skin. The first several times I found books in this genre, I hurried to look at them. “I love romances!” I’d think. “I love science fiction, and aliens, and multiple relationships, and…oh…wait. I don’t love warlords.” The male protagonists in alien warlord books are generally, as the name suggests, warlike alpha males who hold positions of authority in their societies via force and personal strength. This is a perfectly fine trope, but it’s not one of my personal faves. So I kept thinking “wouldn’t it be fun to do a version of this trope without the ‘warlords’ part?”
And thus: Alien Peacelords.
Alien Peacelords: The Coriolis Effect
Why have a midlife crisis on Earth when you can have one among the stars?
After her third post-release layoff from a major gaming studio, Coriolis Washington is ready to try something new. Like, going-to-another-world new. And whatever her friend's lurid romance novels might say, Cori knows perfectly well that the alien world Fali-tan needs programmers to write code – not sexy women to fill out harems.
Despite being far more technologically advanced than Earth in most respects, Fali-tan's computers were no better than punch-card-driven mainframes, and had not improved in generations until the discovery of their long-lost cousins on Earth. Now, Fali-tan's population is eager to achieve their own Information Age, and technology companies bend over backwards to hire skilled Earth developers. Even some of Fali-tan's peacelords, leaders of their nations, will go to great lengths to attract people like Coriolis to their country.
… and the shocking, overwhelming physical attractiveness of humans is the least of Coriolis's charms to rival peacelords and ex-lovers Dhavoran and Tyvalon.
Author Commentary
There’s a subgenre of romance called “alien warlord”: science fiction romance novels, usually featuring a single human woman protagonist and one or more male aliens: generally very human-like aliens with a few nonhuman features, like blue skin. The first several times I found books in this genre, I hurried to look at them. “I love romances!” I’d think. “I love science fiction, and aliens, and multiple relationships, and…oh…wait. I don’t love warlords.” The male protagonists in alien warlord books are generally, as the name suggests, warlike alpha males who hold positions of authority in their societies via force and personal strength. This is a perfectly fine trope, but it’s not one of my personal faves. So I kept thinking “wouldn’t it be fun to do a version of this trope without the ‘warlords’ part?”
And thus: Alien Peacelords.
