User:MPSAuthor

Saturday, October 21, 2023
Hello, and thank you for visiting this Wiki page dedicated to my current major writing project, Pendulum: Empyrean Order!

A story of war and betrayal, survival and sacrifice set in an epic, hard science-fiction universe more than 1,000 years in our future, Pendulum tells the story of straggling bands of soldiers from the two great, rival powers of humankind.

Through this Wiki, I mean to explore the universe in which Pendulum transpires, using the site as an organizational tool for myself as well as a method of sharing these concepts and ideas with my readers. As I write this post, I am still in the planning and research stage of the writing process.

As I plan for this to be hard science-fiction, I feel I owe it both to myself and my readers to try to get the science as right as I'm able to.

To that end, I invite anyone who has an interest (and the knowledge I will doubtlessly lack while I continue to learn and adapt to this challenge) to reach out to me with any feedback you might have when it comes to the concepts and ideas I lay out in this wiki. I will give anyone who provides constructive feedback that has an impact upon the quality of the finished novel a credit in the Acknowledgements section of the novel.

My inspirations for this story are countless, as I am an unabashed fantasy and sci-fi nerd! I will likely list these inspirations in a section on the Wiki as time goes by. However, as much as I am inspired by so many terrific works in this genre, I would rather iterate upon elements from these inspirations rather than become overtly derivative. This is a fine line to walk for anyone attempting to create art, as the adage about there being 'no such thing as an original idea' only seems to become truer and truer as time goes by. However, I aim to try my best to put a stamp upon Pendulum and its Empyrean Order universe as best as I can.

Thank you, once again, for taking the time to check this Wiki out! I will keep this profile updated as I reach certain milestones, both in the writing process for the novel and the organizational efforts of the Wiki.

Regards,

Michael Paul Scott

MPSAuthor@freewilds.net