Richard Parry

Man Quits Instagram, Reads 3,764 Books in a Year

Posted onJanuary 18, 2018January 18, 2018

I made that headline up. I’m experimenting with clickbait. The sentiment of quitting things is worthwhile. Lemme break it down for you. I’m not big on new year’s resolutions, because I’m a do-a-thing-or-don’t kind of guy. There’s no real barrier to me growing a beard in July, or shaving my tongue for Lent. If I want to lose 30 pounds, all that’s between me and that goal is a shopping list and a fear of losing the taste for cake. However! I do find the end-of-year vacation, colloquially known as “Christmas Break” to the locals in my town, valuable. I mean, yeah, we all swing in hammocks, which is a goal in itself. But without other activities like working for a living, I’m able to reflect. Where did my time go? What do I want to use my remaining time on? Read More …

Tyche Origins

Posted onJanuary 13, 2018January 31, 2018

Contrary to popular belief, I haven’t been spending my last few weeks surfing the web or playing video games. Tyche Origins is coming soon! This five-novella series are tiny vignettes into the backgrounds of the Tyche’s crew. How they came to the ship. How they left their homes. The stories are easy to read in a sitting, and are 15,000+ words of action and dialogue* each. The stories will be out soon. Until then, enjoy the covers. * NSFW

It’s Vogel Time

Posted onJanuary 12, 2018January 12, 2018

If you want to do me a solid, head on over to the nomination form and pop Tyche’s Flight* in for a Best Novel award. The competition is brutal in the SJVs; many amazing artists are going head to head. It’d be nice to win for a change, but being accepted as a nominee rocks several degrees of awesome. [Click Here for the Nomination Form] Nominations close 8.00pm on 2nd February 2018 (NZST), which isn’t that far away — feel free to punch the drives to their limits and head there now. You can nominate multiple New Zealand artists for the award, so don’t feel like you’re burning your one golden ticket on me. The SJVs provide many golden tickets. If you need help with making a nomination for Tyche’s Flight, you can use these handy copy/paste entries: Title of Work or Name of Read More …

L’Oreal: Titans of Tech

Posted onJanuary 8, 2018

No, I’m serious. It seems our friends over L’Oreal have made something that could help you make sensible choices about your crispness levels courtesy of the ball of fire in Earth’s skies. “UV Sense is a battery-free electronic sensor that’s designed to monitor your sun exposure and, with the help of an NFC-enabled smartphone, help limit your skin cancer risk.“ Stick it on your nail, tap it with your phone, and viola, you know how many solar rads you’ve had. In New Zealand we feel the ozone depletion, so this rocks for us. Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/07/l-oreal-and-john-rogers-built-a-thumbnail-sized-uv-sensor/

New Releases for December 2017

Posted onJanuary 2, 2018

This post is so last year, but hey. New Releases for December 2017 If you’ve emptied your ereader of choice, it might be worth taking a risk on a few new authors there.

Your Christmas Word is, “Diamene”

Posted onDecember 28, 2017December 28, 2017

From the ain’t-it-cool files comes this: https://sciencealert.com/graphene-paired-sheets-diamene-deformation-diamond-property If I’m reading it right, graphene turns into diamene when it’s hit hard enough. I see a new set of body armor for the crew of the Tyche come the next trilogy…

100 Days of Warframe

Posted onDecember 21, 2017May 29, 2025

I’ve been getting into Warframe more than I should. If you like the game, this will ring your bell. If not, move along citizen, there’s nothing to see here.

Where I Talk About the Reader Survey

Posted onDecember 21, 2017December 24, 2017

The people have spoken. Below you’ll find a tear down of of my December 2017 Reader Survey. I’m sharing this back out because: Respondents might dig knowing what everyone else said; I’ve got a bunch of author friends who will find some of this pure gold; and It’s fucking cool. The usual disclaimers apply. Self-reported results are notoriously iffy, and the sample size is limited. Also, I’ve got a huge amount of unconscious bias which will be evident in how I parse this stuff. Let’s see how sub-par my brain is, hey? Ruling the World Why start small? I want to write more books in my latest Tyche story universe, because a) I enjoy it a great deal and b) readers seem to as well. This is what biz people call win-win. First up? What to call the universe. I rejected about Read More …

Alternate Realms Magazine Interview

Posted onDecember 19, 2017August 20, 2018

The guys over at ARM interviewed me. If you want to hear me tell lies about martial arts, universe building, and fusion reactors, this is where you go: Tyche’s Journey: An Interview with Richard Parry It was the most fun interview I’ve done to date. Check it out!

Pew! Pew!

Posted onDecember 17, 2017December 15, 2017

I was invited to participate in Pew! Pew! 4: Bad versus Worse. This is a level of awesome I hadn’t anticipated. Pew! is a humorous anthology series where the greats of indie sci-fi (everyone else on the cover except me) rub shoulders with the newbies (me). You can get it here: https://www.books2read.com/Consensus This volume is a 50/50 mix of heroes and villains. My story, Consensus, is about a huge asshole named Austin (that’s not why he’s an asshole) who goes on a not-quite-heroes journey to start a new megacorp. I would dig it if you could check it out and let me know what you think Blurb for Consensus: Decisions shouldn’t be hard. As a lead researcher for Reed Interactive, Austin Ainley created The Decider. It’s tech that can nudge people towards making the right choices. Despite his brilliance, Reed threw Read More …