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Scott Falcon Interview July 10

The following is an excerpt from an interview of Scott Falcon in the book website ManyBooks, featured in a number of publications including The Guardian, USAToday, Lifehacker and The Huffington Post.

Debuting in 2020, Scott Falcon is a new American author writing cutting edge novels in different thriller genres. Scott is an avid outdoorsman, a conservation advocate, and is a member/sponsor of Wild Oceans, World Wildlife Fund, The Sierra Club, Greenpeace, International Anti Poaching Foundation, and The Sea Shepard Conversation Society. Scott lives in Ventura, California. His technothriller, Threshold, was very well received. All five-star reviews, the epic novel hit #1 in Hard Science Fiction and #3 in Technothrillers on Amazon. It also made 14 other Bestseller lists. As our Author of the Day, he tells us all about Threshold.

Please give us a short introduction to what Threshold is about.
Threshold takes place at a time in the near future when technologists are on the brink of creating an SIAI, a Super Intelligent Artificial Intelligence, also known as the singularity. It is an AI that is truly self-aware. As you might guess, things do not go well.

What inspired you to write about a world where all technology stops working, except for AI?
The power of a true singularity is unknowable, both good and bad, and one possibility is that the AI does not want the competition.

Why did you set your story in 2040?
We are at the dawn of AI, we need a bit more time for the singularity to emerge.

Read the full interview here: ManyBooks Website

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Threshold Editing Issue

To my fans and readers,

Threshold Editing Issue

Threshold is receiving an average of 4.5 stars out of 5.0, and I am grateful to those readers that loved the novel.

“It’s the coolest damn thing I have read in…years.. Makes what is happening now, just a small glitch in time..

What is bringing it down, the reviews that are 3.0, are editing issues. This is being resolved.

Threshold, a 500-page Sci-Fi novel with a significant amount of technology-related content, both real and fictionalized, was edited once already, obviously not thoroughly enough. That editor edited The Martian for its UK release. I thought I was in good hands.

Know that Threshold is being copyedited again by a very competent editor. This will take some time. I estimate the updated version will be available in late August or September. I will post here when it is available. The book will be the same that you can access now, but hopefully with even the slightest error corrected, punctuation etc.

Also know that many times I write partial or incomplete sentences intentionally.

Here is an example:

In the first passage, Becca is struggling to survive on K2.

This place hostile

This is her internal dialogue. I am well aware that a grammatically correct sentence is:

This place is hostile.

Some reviewers might flag this as sloppy, or an error in writing or editing. It is not. It is what she thought.

Here is an extreme example of this problem, The Road, by Cormac McCarthy has an average of 4 stars on Amazon. 4 stars out of 5. That’s 80%. If the book was in school it would have barely made a B grade. McCarthy is one of the greatest writers of our generation. I love his work. This 4-star book also won the Pulitzer Prize. It is full of partial sentences, and creative license with grammar. And It is beautifully written. I am no McCarthy, but I think you get my point. Not every reviewer will, or should, love McCarthy’s work, but many readers do not grasp his style as intentional. It is art.

There are errors in my novel that are not intentional, I am sure. That is why I am hiring another editor. It needs to be perfect.

It is very difficult for an author to edit his/her own work. Why? Because you know what a sentence is supposed to say in your head when you write and read it, even if the words are slightly off. That is why a skilled copyeditor is needed with no preconceived expectation of what or how a sentence is supposed to mean, read, flow, etc.

Thank you for reading my work. I hope you enjoy it. CELERITY will be published in a few days. It is a wild ride. Beta readers found a couple of scenes shocking. Send the kids to bed before you read it.

I am researching my fourth novel, another thriller, of course. TideFall. The best may be yet to come.

Scott

Celerity Now on PreOrder

Speed Kills
Celerity usually comes in second at UCLA track—the first loser, her coach would say. But she is encouraged by her father, a botanist, her only parent, and her biggest fan. Then he dies unexpectedly. Now she is alone.

While wrapping up his affairs, she learns about his expeditions of discovery to the Darién jungle and a plant that transforms indigenous tribesmen into prolific hunters … and extraordinarily fast runners.

She takes a sabbatical from college and follows his work. After weeks enduring the tropics, she finds the plant—it’s fifty feet tall and carnivorous. She returns with its extract.

Training at her local high school, her speed is increasing, and people notice. A student times her in the 100 meters—she breaks the women’s world record—videos go viral—and life will never be the same.

Approached by a flamboyant sports agent, he has a plan; there’s no money in track … try out for the Chicago Bears as a wide receiver. Nobody can touch the world’s most famous female athlete.

Then the side effects kick in.

Available worldwide July 15, 2020. eBook, Hardcover, Paperback

THRESHOLD Featured in Media

CELERITY Publication Date Announced

The Learjet spirals out of control, then crashes into the Pacific. Onboard, Celerity, young, rich, and the world’s most famous female athlete. The world is stunned.
Recordings are discovered—a diary of her rapid rise to fame and fortune—her secrets revealed one by one.

Celerity usually comes in second at UCLA track—the first loser, her coach would say. But she is encouraged by her father, a botanist, her only parent. Then he dies unexpectedly. Now she is parentless and alone.
While wrapping up his affairs, she learns about his expeditions of discovery to the Darién jungle and a plant that transforms indigenous tribesmen into prolific hunters—and extraordinarily fast runners.
She takes a sabbatical from college and follows his work. After weeks enduring the tropics, she finds the plant—it’s fifty feet tall—and carnivorous. She returns with its extract.
Training at her local high school, her speed is increasing, and people notice. A student times her in the 100 meters—she breaks the women’s world record—videos go viral—and life will never be the same.
Approached by a flamboyant sports agent, he has a plan; there’s no money in track… try out for the Chicago Bears as a wide receiver. Nobody can touch her.
Then the side effects kick in.

The novel will be published in eBook, hardcover, and paperback on July 15, 2020 on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Kobo, Google, and other locations around the world.

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THRESHOLD hits #1 Amazon

My second novel, THRESHOLD, hit # 1 on Amazon for Hard Science Fiction, #3 in Technothrillers, and made 14 other Bestsellers lists as of June 16, 2020, including two other number 1’s.

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