Film Criticism and Fiction Writing by Derek Jacobs
The time has come to talk of beta readers for LANTERN (and other things). The manuscript is a serious, ambitious work of hard/literary science fiction. It’s about a family, a space elevator company, artificial gravity, the search for alien intelligence, and what happens when one of humanity’s oldest questions gets answered in the worst possible … Read more
I’ve completed the first draft of my second science fiction novel, LANTERN.
I started writing it in December 2023, and over the past two years it grew into something larger and more ambitious than anything I’ve attempted before. At roughly 175,000 words, the full story now exists on the page, from its opening premise to its final consequences. The sandbox is full. A few rough castles are standing. Now comes the work of carving and refinement.
Follow the development of Project Drake, a new near-future science fiction novel about space elevators, family legacy, and the search for meaning.
