Donald L. King is a gay man and an aspiring writer of science fiction. He lives in Oakland, California with his two cats, and works as an engineer in the software industry by day.
As of this writing, he has not published any standalone fiction. However, he has written a fair amount of fanfiction over the years, the early examples of which are mercifully obscure or offline.
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“A Panoply of Stars” [working title, incomplete, in development since 2016].
Hard science fiction with an LGBT interest, final length will be between
60,000 and 90,000 words. A radiotelescope detects an alien signal. As the
science team decodes the message, concerns rise as they discover it’s a
computer program containing multiple AIs. Should they run it? Includes
multiple LGBT characters in an anarchist commune and a gay male romance
subplot, in a world where global warming and political turmoil have caused
society to fragment and regress.
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“Secrets” (2016).
Incomplete, Mass Effect fanfiction, final length will be about
60,000 words. Kaidan investigates a brewing Reaper Civil War. Sequel to
“Ghosts”. Kaidan/M!Shepard.
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“Ghosts” (2016).
Mass Effect fanfiction, about 33,000 words. In the wake of the Synthesis
ending, the galaxy struggles to make sense of it all. Kaidan/M!Shepard.
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Existence (2012).
Book, David Brin. An orbital garbage collector discovers an alien artifact
orbiting Earth, and the artifact bears a message that brings the continued
existence of the human race into question.
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“Mass Effect” Trilogy (2007, 2010, 2012).
Video game series, Bioware. A soldier named Shepard discovers an ancient
threat to advanced life and unites the galaxy to face it.
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“Babylon 5” (1994-1998).
TV series, J. Michael Straczynski. The eponymous space station, created as
the “last, best hope for peace”, becomes the focal point for a war 1,000
years in the making.
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A Fire Upon The Deep (1993).
Book, Vernor Vinge. An expedition from the human colony Straumli Realm
awakens a dormant superintelligence known as the Blight, and the race to
end the Blight leads from the High Beyond to an unassuming world populated
by the pack-minded “Tines”.
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The Uplift War (1987).
Book, David Brin. The scheming Gubru invade the planet Garth, an
ecologically devastated world given to Humans to rehabilitate… but the
Humans’ uplifted allies, the Neo-Chimpanzees, prove harder to control than
the Gubru planned for.
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