Peter Kazmaier writes Fiction

Peter Kazmaier writes fiction at the intersection of adventure, science, faith, and philosophy. He is best known for his book series, The Halcyon Cycle, which is a colonization epic about an elite university that is transported to a parallel world. For his second book in the series, The Battle for Halcyon, Kazmaier received the 2016 Word Award for Speculative Fiction.

If you like fast-paced action novels which also make you think about the meaning of truth, justice, and moral choices, you may enjoy his books.

Kazmaier has a strong interest in promoting independent authors. Increasingly, he is devoting a larger part of his reading time to reading their works and has found these books to be imaginative, well-crafted, and refreshingly original. He is eager to connect with other independent authors to promote our books.

Why Do I Write?

I think every author eventually asks the question: “Why do I write?” I answer this question for myself by echoing C. S. Lewis: “I write books I should like to read, but no one else has bothered to write them yet.” I like stories that fill me with regret as I put my book down when I’m too tired to read further. I like stories that word-paint vivid images of deep canyons, labyrinthine caves, and dark forests. Finally, I like stories where the characters become friends and reaching the last page of the book is akin to saying “good-bye” to a friend who is traveling overseas.

However, for me the best books are those that not only keep me reading with a hunger to find out what happens next, but also have memorable conversations in them that come back to me time and time again.

Experiencing relativistic time dilation through the eyes of adolescent Tom in Robert Heinlein’s Time for the Stars, made the effect realistic for me in a way that the equations alone never could. I experienced the profound sadness he experienced when his telepathic twin brother back on earth aged drastically after every near-light-speed jump while only a few weeks passed for him.

When Frodo told Samwise: “I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me” it was one of those moments that come back to me, reminding me not all sacrifice brings reward to those who pay the price.

When I began writing my first book, The Halcyon Dislocation, I wondered what would happen if a university were transported to a parallel world. How would the students react when they are cut off from all family and friends? How long would it take before food ran out and our technology would break down? How would the leaders at the university fill the power vacuum? Would it ennoble them or would they become corrupted? How would they react to students and professors with whom they disagreed or even despised now that great power was in their grasp?

At the outset the answers to these questions were not easy to see, but came out of a complex interaction between the responses of the characters, the confrontations that molded and guided the unfolding events and the worldviews that undergirded the decisions by the characters. I hope I have written a book that is plot driven enough to make it easy to read yet has some memorable moments that will come back to the reader long after the book has been put down.

If this sounds like something that would interest you or you would like to connect with a fellow author, please check out the links below:

Peter Kazmaier

For more information take a look at Kazmaier’s author page on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00JB0IWE6

his author page at Goodreads (to see what he’s reading) https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4136519.Peter_Kazmaier

or his blog: http://peterkazmaier.com/