Time Yarns Anthologies Published

Online, January 3, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Time Yarns published two short story anthologies on Jan. 1, 2012. Cassandra's Time Yarns and Anarchy Zone Time Yarns are each have four authors and two artists in addition to editor Erin Lale, in the tradition of hard sf written by scientists.

Time Yarns is a shared world transmedia press. The editor and universe originator, Erin Lale, says, "This is a different kind of shared world. What the stories all have in common is the way physics and magic works in the Time Yarns universe."

The launch of the Time Yarns anthologies coincides with the release of the Time Yarns trailer, which will premier at an event in Las Vegas later this month.

Cassandra's Time Yarns and Anarchy Zone Time Yarns are participating in Amazon's KDP Select Lending Library, so Kindle owners can read them for free during the first 90 days of publication and are Kindle Store exclusives during that time. In April 2012, the books will be sold for their normal price of 99 cents each and will become available on more host sites, such as Barnes & Noble and Smashwords.

The Time Yarns authors include scientists, teachers, and an award winning Italian science fiction writer.

Ralph Ewig was born and raised in Western Europe, Ralph Ewig immigrated to the US in 1992 at the age of twenty. He has lived in both the Seattle and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, and holds three degrees in the field of aeronautics and astronautics from the University of Washington. To date, he has worked as a musician, a roadie, a lumberjack, a vineyard apprentice, and with many government and commercial space organizations; he is currently a Mission Operations Engineer at Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX). Ralph currently lives in California together with his wife, continuing his pursuits of space exploration, creative writing, motorsports, martial arts, and sailing.

Erin Lale's publishing career began in 1985. Her published works and paid works for hire include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, technical writing, speeches, catalog copy, puzzles, songs, films, academic papers, cartoons, print ads, TV commercials, operations & procedure manuals, photos, art, newsletters, jokes, recipes, translations, and web content. She wrote for The Sonoma Index-Tribune, and was the publisher and editor of Berserkrgangr Magazine, a quarterly that ran 16 issues in the 90s. She was Oakes Valedictorian of UC-Santa Cruz, owned and operated The Science Fiction Store in Las Vegas, invented a number of technical processes in iDEN and CDMA wireless communications technology, and ran for Nevada State Assembly.

Ian Miller is a New Zealander. Miller is the owner of Carina Chemical Laboratories Ltd. and inventor of Nemidon gel and algal biofuel. He is the author of Aristotelian Methodology in the Physical Sciences, and has a revolutionary new take on the quantum observer effect.

Humberto Sachs was born into the horse and carriage culture of the Brazilian Pampas in 1930. Sachs went into the U.S. aerospace industry and helped design passenger jets, the F-18 fighter jet, and the International Space Station. He is the founder of TeknoX Group, a startup company delivering the tools for people to create the future they want to live in via open technology and direct democracy. He illustrates his vision for the future of TeknoX with his science fiction writings about the Etonean culture.

Giampietro Stocco was born in Rome in 1961. Active as an author from the beginning of XXI st Century, he works as a journalist in the Italian public broadcasting service (RAI-tv) since 1991. He published his first novel in 2003: Nero Italiano (Fratelli Frilli Editori) is an alternate history novel based in Italy in the '70's, supposing fascism never went down. Dea del Caos (Fratelli Frilli Editori, 2005), is the sequel of this story. In 2007 Stocco published the sf novella Figlio della Schiera (Chinaski), in 2008 another alternate history novel, La corona perduta (Edizioni Scudo). Based in Genoa, the novel starts with Bomaparte's assassination during the Italian Campaign and imagines a completely different present world, still based on monarchies and empires. In 2009 the author publishes another novel, Dalle mie Ceneri (Delos Books). It is based in Argentina, and imagines that Britain had lost the Falkland war. In 2010 Stocco published another alternate story with Bietti. Nuovo Mondo is placed in the Renaissance at the times of Columbus discoveries and the events go quite another direction... In 2006 Stocco won the Alien prize for the best science fiction short story (Premio Alien per la fantascienza) with L'Ospite, The Host, presented in Time Yarns for the first time in English.

Tony Thorne MBE is an Englishman, born and technically educated in London, England, as a Chartered Design Engineer. He lives in Austria in summer and the Canary Island of Tenerife in winter. Earlier in life, he wrote science fiction and humorous stories, was an active SF Fan, and a spare time lecturer for the British Interplanetary Society. For developments in the field of low temperature (cryo)surgery instruments, and very high temperature processing furnaces for carbon fibre, the Queen awarded him an MBE. After many subsequent business adventures, including the development of AI computer software for business applications, he is now a part-time author of quirky speculative fiction; mostly tall Science Fiction and Macabre tales, with over 100 short stories on file plus a first novel.

J.L. Toscano was born in Northhampton, Massassachusetts. He is a teacher with the Scarsdale Schools in N.Y. and he writes Science Fiction and children's stories. In addition, he enjoys coaching soccer and lacrosse.

Gordon Yaswen is a self-taught writer, poet, and artist with work published in periodicals and anthologies, and self-published in CD, note-cards, 16 books and 26 chapbooks. He has taught autobiography techniques since 1983, and claims to create as a form of human hygiene. He teaches college in California.

Maria Arango is originally from Cuba and now lives in the USA, where she makes original woodcut prints. She has been exhibited in the Las
Vegas Art Museum, and has been awarded Best of Show overall Boulder City Arts Festival, Best of Show Award (Printmaking) in the Art Fest of Henderson and Tempe Art Festivals and purchase awards including works in the Springfield Museum of Art. She has been exhibited in Brand Gallery and Art Center in California, the Hunterdon Museum of Art and the 5th Print Biennial in the Marsh Gallery of the University of Richmond Museum, Adamo Gallery in Las Vegas and the Kolob Art Gallery in Springdale, Utah. Her work is part of permanent collections including the University of Oregon and the Princeton Graphic Arts Collection. She is exclusively represented by the deZion Gallery in
Springdale, Utah. A personal goal to complete 1,000 woodcuts is progressing heartily. Art Festivals throughout the West continue to be Maria's favorite venue for meeting her fast growing audience of collectors.

Alex Storer is a science fiction & fantasy artist in Sheffield, UK. He says, "As an avid science-fiction reader, a large part of my artistic inspiration comes from whatever I'm reading - there's no denying the influence of Cormac McCarthy's The Road in my piece, Hope. What I aspire to achieve in my work is something that evokes a similar atmosphere as the work of those sci-fi art greats of the 1970s and 80s, but something also distinctive and timeless, which takes the viewer on a journey to, and beyond, other worlds. My preferred medium is digital, although many of my pieces start out as a rough pencil sketch, which I'll scan and work over. Although my roots are in fine art I much prefer digital - it comes without the mess!"

Lisa Yount is an artist and jeweller in the San Franscisco Bay Area, California, USA. She says: Discovering, playing with, and bringing to others' attention the wonders of the outer world of nature and the inner world of the imagination is my passion. My computer-generated (in Photoshop) paintings and photocollages, the latter built primarily from my own photographs, rise from the borderland where these two worlds meet. They combine textures (rocks, tree bark, sand, leaves, building reflections), computer-generated fractals and kaleidoscope patterns, natural objects, and occasional human beings to create art that both celebrates nature and goes within and beyond it into surrealism, fantasy, and myth. Although some of my images are playful, I hope that others will puzzle and even haunt the viewer, leading to contemplation of a spiritual dimension beyond our physical surroundings.