# lancerobinsonwriter.com > Lance Robinson, speculative fiction author ## Posts - [Newsletter Issue No. 1](https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/newsletter2024_01/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ admin_label=”Newsletter Heading Row” _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#e2f0d9″ custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” header_3_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_3_font_size=”28px” custom_margin=”0px||0px|15px|true|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Issue no. 1 [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_3_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_3_font_size=”28px” custom_margin=”|15px||15px|false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” content_last_edited=”on|phone” content_phone=” February 2024 ” sticky_enabled=”0″ content_tablet=” February 2024 “] February 2024 [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_2_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_2_font_size=”32px” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] News from SF writer Lance Robinson [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_3_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_3_font_size=”28px” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” text_font_size_phone=”19px” sticky_enabled=”0″] No, I was not in cryosleep for 14 years […] ## Pages - [Books by Lance Robinson](https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/store/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ admin_label=”Five Camels Row” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_font_size=”60px” header_2_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_2_font_size=”48px” header_3_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_3_font_size=”20px” global_colors_info=”{}”] Five Camels for the Simplification A novelette The world is racing toward a cliff, carrying you and your only child with it. In the mid-twenty-first century, it is not difficult to see what direction the world is headed. But the exact destination is hazy, inviting procrastination and doubt. GPESS+NK.01 dispels the fog, giving Thomas a view of the coming years that is crisp, unequivocal, and frightening. Five Camels for the Simplification is a social-ecological speculative fiction […] - [Awards](https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/stories/awards/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||4px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Award eligibility text” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Kreon||||||||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] 2025 Award Eligibility Here are a couple of my 2025 publications.  In case you’re in a nominating mood.  Just sayin’. Novelette: Interconnections and Porous Boundaries, published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, May/June 2025. Novelette: One Step Away, published in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, November/December 2025. CSFFA members, here’s a quick link to the eligibility list. [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”15px||||false|false” custom_padding=”15px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″ admin_label=”Awards heading”] Awards [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”0px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” […] - [Lance Robinson - A Taster](https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/lrobinson_fiction_sample_3jqd7400w/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/shutterstock_1407990035-scaled.jpg” alt=”Lance Robinson’s typewriter” title_text=”Old,Typewriter,With,A,Blank,Sheet,Of,Paper,On,A” admin_label=”Alien and typewriter image” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Kreon||||||||” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” admin_label=”Text module – get free story” sticky_enabled=”0″] Give one of my stories a try If you’ve reached this page, it probably means you subscribed to my newsletter and then you were redirected here for a small thank you, or that I gave you link for you to download one of my stories for free. “Money, Wealth, and Soil” is a near-future tale that explores the relationship between […] - [Science Fiction Author Lance Robinson - Media Kit](https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/about-lance/media-kit/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_2,1_2″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Media Kit – Intro” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_font_size=”45px” header_3_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_3_font_size=”30px” global_colors_info=”{}”] Chasing New Suns:Collected StoriesMedia Kit Publication date: September 12th, 2024. Science fiction, 189 pages, available in paperback and e book. Paperback ISBN: 978-1-0688724-0-2E-book ISBN: 978-1-0688724-1-9 Social Media lancerobinsonwriter.substack.comwww.facebook.com/lancerobinsonwriter  www.instagram.com/lancerobinsonwriter Full Media Gallery: https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/ LRobinson_Chasing_New_Suns_Media_Kit.zip.(High-res book cover, mockups & author pictures) [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Chasing_New_Suns-Lance_Robinson.jpg” title_text=”Chasing_New_Suns-Lance_Robinson” align=”center” admin_label=”CNS Front Cover” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” module_alignment=”center” max_height=”633px” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Table of Contents Text Module” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px” text_line_height=”1.1em” width=”64%” module_alignment=”center” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] […] - [Chasing New Suns](https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/chasingnewsuns/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Chasing_New_Suns-Lance_Robinson.jpg” title_text=”Chasing_New_Suns-Lance_Robinson” admin_label=”CNS Front Cover” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”CNS – Text” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Kreon||||||||” global_colors_info=”{}”] Chasing New Suns Collected Stories Seven tales of mind, heart, and spirit from award winning science fiction writer Lance Robinson. From Apartheid era South Africa to humanity’s first foray beyond the solar system, from precarious ecosystems in northern Alberta to the shiny glam of time-adept neocolonialists between the stars, these are stories of possibility. [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Book quote text block 1″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#f4df77″ custom_margin=”||26px|||” custom_padding=”8px|8px|8px|8px|true|true” global_colors_info=”{}”] As the rifle […] - [Writers of the Future 2024 Gallery](https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/announce_archive/wotf40-gallery/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”WotF40 Slider heading” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_font_size=”60px” global_colors_info=”{}”] Writers of the Future 2024 Photo Gallery [/et_pb_text][et_pb_slider admin_label=”wotf40 photo slider” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_level=”h3″ header_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_font_size=”45px” body_link_text_color=”#FFF0DC” background_color=”#399f6a” max_height=”760px” hover_transition_duration=”150ms” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” body_link_text_color__hover_enabled=”on|hover” body_link_text_color__hover=”#FFF0DC” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_slide heading=”Lance and the Shaman” image=”https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lance-Robinson-Writer-Dan-dos-Santos-cover-art-WOTF40-scaled.jpg” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_transition=”on”] Life size (and larger than life size) banners with the cover art from L. 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[/et_pb_slide][et_pb_slide heading=”Team Canada at Writers of the Future 40″ image=”https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lance-Robinson-Writer-WOTF40-Team-Canada-Robert-J-Sawyer-scaled.jpg” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_transition=”on”] Galen Westlake, me, Robert […] - [Announcements Archive](https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/announce_archive/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Title – Archive” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Past Announcements [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Announcement Row 2025 07 16″ module_id=”news20250716″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”40px||||false|false” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/local-author-showcase.jpg” alt=”Indigo Thunder Bay Local Author Showcase, 16 July 2025, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.” title_text=”local author showcase” url_new_window=”on” admin_label=”Local Author Showcase image” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” max_height=”400px” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text disabled_on=”off|off|off” admin_label=”Announce: 20250716 – Local Author Showcase” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_3_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_3_font_size=”28px” locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”] July 2025 On Saturday July 19th from 1:00 to 5:00, I’ll be participating in the Indigo Thunder Bay’s […] - [Newsletter](https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/newsletter/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Heading” _builder_version=”4.22.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Newsletter [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Table list of issues” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ text_font_tablet=”” text_font_phone=”” text_font_last_edited=”on|phone” text_font_size_tablet=”” text_font_size_phone=”18px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Issue no. 1, February 2024 PDF version Issue no. 2, May 2024 PDF version Issue no. 3, August 2024 PDF version Issue no. 4, October 2024 PDF version Issue no. 5, December 2024 PDF version Issue no. 6, February 2025 PDF version Issue no. 7, July 2025 PDF version Issue no. 8, October 2025 PDF version Issue no. 9, February 2026 PDF version Issue no. 10, May […] - [Lance Robinson - Landing page](https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/landing_page/) - [Contact](https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/contact/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ width=”100%” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Contact Text” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_line_height=”1.6em” header_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_font_size=”48px” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” sticky_enabled=”0″ text_font_size_phone=”18px”] Contact I can be reached at LRobinson [at] lancerobinsonwriter.com. [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section] - [Stories](https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/stories/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ admin_label=”Collections Row” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Chasing_New_Suns-Lance_Robinson.jpg” alt=”Chasing News Suns by Lance Robinson – front cover” title_text=”Chasing_New_Suns-Lance_Robinson” admin_label=”CNS Front Cover Image” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Chasing New Suns Text” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”] Chasing New Suns Collected Stories Seven tales of mind, heart, and spirit from award winning science fiction writer Lance Robinson. Click here for details. [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ admin_label=”WOTF Row” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”WOTF40 Text” _builder_version=”4.24.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Kreon||||||||” header_3_font=”Kreon||||||||” global_colors_info=”{}”] Writers of the Future Volume 40 My story “Five Days Until Sunset” appears in this […] - [About Lance](https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/about-lance/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/LRobinson-profile-pic-web-site.jpg” alt=”Lance Robinson” title_text=”LRobinson profile pic web site” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Kreon||||||||” global_colors_info=”{}”] About me I was in grade six when I got hooked on SF.  I grabbed a science fiction book from the school library and it flicked a switch in my imagination that has never gone out.  Then I read The Hobbit and eventually Lord of the Rings.  I found Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke.  And then in high school, one of my teachers – Trish Bean, […] - [Lance Robinson](https://lancerobinsonwriter.com/): [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Intro text” _builder_version=”4.27.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”] I write humble stories of humble characters thrust into extraordinary situations, and grand epic tales of heroes at the horizon of wonder.  I write speculative fiction to envision what the human race could be, if we could just break free from our shell (and occasionally to imagine what might happen if we don’t). 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