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Jim Heter

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An electronics engineer by training, I now work as a K-12 curriculum developer, mainly for math and science. Writing, mainly science fiction, has been a hobby for years. My other hobby is designing and building PakYak folding kayaks (see profile picture).

I would love to spend all my time reading the offerings of others on Authonomy, but of course I can't. When someone leaves me a message or comment or backs my book, I always go to their profile and read their pitch. If it snags my interest I will read some and if I like it I will back it. In that case I usually read all that is posted and then comment.

I tend to avoid anything that sounds like it is only adding to the already overwhelming flood of swords and sorcery or vampire fantasy. Those need a really good pitch with a new twist to interest me. This is just to apologize in advance if I seem to ignore you. I'm sure I'm missing many well-crafted works. I don't mind being nudged if you think yours is one of those.

By the way, The Lamia comprises a series of parts. Part 1 is the first 26 posted chapters. Part 2 is the next 18 chapters, and the last 8 "chapters" are the next 8 Parts. If you feel like sampling, each Part is a complete story (episode) in itself. I have added a table of contents as chapter 53.

When you get to Part 2 (Chapter 27), click on the second link below for the theme song.

favourite books

My current favorite is Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.
An early favorite was Theodore Sturgeon's A Touch of Strange.
Sturgeon once said "A good book on anthropology should be on every writer's bookshelf." I use Joseph Campbell's The Masks of God.

my websites

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my books

The Stag-Horned Man

Jim Heter

Cern Stewart knows who he is. He's about to find out who he was.


Cern Stewart is a man with a passion. He is a civil attorney, dedicated to wilderness protection cases.

He is an avid outdoorsman, and has a strong affinity for the wild places. He has climbed ice-capped mountains and kayaked wild rivers. But mostly he walks in the deep woods, off the beaten trail. It is then that he feels at home.

Cern profoundly believes that the proper role of humankind on earth is to understand and help maintain a natural ecological balance. He is mildly aware of his ancestry, and some of his views are influenced by what he knows of the Brehon law of the ancient Celts. He never imagines that his views have a deeper origin.

Until he meets Dema Culver.

(The Stag-Horned Man is a sequel to The Lamia. It is a work in progress.)

Posted so far:
Part 1: Double Vision
Authonomy chapters 1 through 5
Part 2: Cern
chapters 6 through 13
Part 3: Roots
chapters 14 through 17
Part 4: Remembrance
chapters 18 through 31
Part 5: Circles
chapters 32 through 41
Part 6: Blood
chapters 42 through 58

 

The Lamia

Jim Heter

DEA agent Dema Culver is the modern Lamia. Her snake dream drives her to defend the innocent. Including herself.


Modern references say the Lamia was a monster, half woman half snake, who devoured innocent children. But heroes are often seen as demons by their enemies.

Lamia originally meant simply abyss, or womb, or a shaman who serves as a midwife. One such shaman swore an oath to avenge the blood of innocents, an oath binding on her descendants.

The shaman magic persists. There are among us some who see beyond normal perception, sense the deeper forces that shape the world. With this awareness comes an ability to influence those forces, bend reality to ones will.

Steeped from childhood in her grandmother’s tales of shaman ancestors, driven to become an agent for the DEA by the loss of her sister to the drug culture, near death from the bullet of a would-be abductor, Dema Culver becomes the modern Lamia.

Dema turns to her grandmother for help in understanding the changes happening in her. She masters the changes, but as she uses her new talents to thwart the drug mobs, her shaman dream - the dream without end - and the oath of the Lamia draw her ever deeper into spirit realms.

 

TANU

Jim Heter

There is a 12th planet. This is where it came from.


In the vast reaches of the galaxy there are wanderers, planets that have escaped the teeming heart and ventured out along the spiraling limbs, drawn on by rivers of energy to visit, and populate, the remote systems of the rim. As eons pass and natural energies fade, the ancient dwellers on such a planet must learn to tap the resources of the young new systems they encounter. Otherwise they will die.

With acknowledgment to Zecharia Sitchin, author of The 12th Planet and The Earth Chronicles.

 

The Legend of Bolder

Jim Heter

The Legend of Bolder, from Tales of the True Men, an epic account of heroic deeds, chronicled in our time by Jim Heter.


Between the Old Time, which nearly everyone has forgotten, and the New Time, which most believe is all the time that has been, there was another time, remembered now only in legend, when the world was a place of dark mystery, and giants and demons were real and roamed the earth.

It was then that Bolder, the Iron Knight, met Groan the Dwarf and Ander the Elf, and set out to save the Plain Kingdom from the siege of the Black Knight and his Hairy Hoards.

"So you want me to tell you a bed-time story, huh?"
"Yes!"
"Do you want it to be a fairy story?"
"Okay."
"A scary fairy story?"
"Yes!"
"A very scary fairy story?"
"Ummm!"
"Well this ones even better than that!"
"Oooh?"
"It's a very hairy scary fairy story!"
"Ahhh!"
"It all starts a long, long time ago..."

Now available on Kindle, complete with illustrations.

 

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Gareth N wrote 26 days ago

Jim, My 16 1/2 year old dog died very recently and I've been negle....

Sue G. wrote 64 days ago

Hi Jim! Nice to know you're still there! Im determined to finish thi....

Luisa Fortes wrote 66 days ago

ONE MONTH ON AUTHONOMY AND MY BOOK RISE FAST. If you add my book to y....

wisco68 wrote 69 days ago

Thanks Jim, you're right that the ForLi is something other than a sto....

David Olawoyin wrote 76 days ago

Thanks very much, Jim, for your comment on THE EVOLUTION OF ETERNITY.....

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I wrote 8 days ago

I saw you had done an update so I read it again. Noticed a number of small but significant changes. Improvements. It keeps getting better. Look forward to the next update. Jim view book

I wrote 37 days ago

More polish, last 6 chapters (9 & 12 May 2013) Part 6 polished up some (26 April 2013) Added chapters 52 through 58 (22 April 2013) Chapter 51 updated. (14 April 2013) view book

I wrote 38 days ago

...and now a spiffy new cover! I thought with the new title the cover had lost much of its significance, since (at least so far) the witch-stone incident, while telling, was a major thread. I look forward to your next evolution. Jim view book

I wrote 59 days ago

Chapters 4 through 8 updated 31 March 2013. Short pitch revised 30 March 2013. Chapters 1 through 3 updated 23 March 2013. view book

I wrote 72 days ago

Hi Will, I read you story,and I enjoyed it. I have two things to say about it. First, it is not really a story so much as a thinly disguised vehicle for presenting ideas about "life, the universe and everything." Second, you could easily stretch it into a full length novel. Or two or three. I ... view book

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