Now releasing The Arwen Season 4: The Water Planet by Timothy P. Callahan
Tim Callahan continues the tale. Make way for The Arwen Season 4: The Water Planet:
Arwen Season IV-The Water planet is part one of a four part adventure that will stretch across the vastness of space and time. An exciting follow up to the Gyssyc trilogy, The Water Planet sets in motion events that will change the Arwen, her crew, Earth and the entire United Planets of the Corps forever.
After three years of searching Professor Ricter believes he’s found the planet that will help save Ulliam from plummeting into its sun. It comes in the form of an unknown planet over 2,000 light-years from Earth and made entirely of water. He elitists his friend, Captain Marjorie Cook, to accompany him and his team to investigate. When they arrive a strange force disables the Arwen leaving it in an unstable orbit above a planet with three times the gravity of Earth.
September 12th, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Hi Tim;
I have read your first three Arwin sagas. Outstanding work
in my view! I just completed (in one reading) the
first seven chapters of the Water Planet. Great story, and a
slight change of venue. We all knew the crew would find something on or around the water planet. I was thinking you might continue this or the next version bringing the dead alien or his ship back to the home planet or something along these lines?
My background is deep research and I am a principle Engineer
by skill set.
I look forware to the next chapter(s).
Regards abd the best-> Bill
September 12th, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Thanks Bill, and nice guess, but your wrong! *BWAHAHAHAH* <–Evil laugh. I can't wait for you guys to find out what happens to the Arwen and her crew in the upcoming stories.
September 24th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
I’ve been falling the saga of the Arwen and have really been enjoying the episodes. I finished up Water Planet in just a few days. It seemed too short and a little transitional. I definitely want to see what happens after they go through the wormhole.
October 6th, 2010 at 9:16 am
Hi Tim.
I listened to the first three ‘Arwen’ books about a year ago and fell in love with the story. When I noticed another ‘Arwen’ adventure starting here on Podiobooks I was eager to start listening to it.
Now I’ve finished all the episodes, and am now anxiously awaiting volume 5. Excellent work thus far, and I look forward to listening to more (soon I hope…I hate being cliffhangered
)
January 12th, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Just and FYI, part two will be live on Jan 14th so, check it out!
May 3rd, 2011 at 10:10 pm
I love the stories, but I hope for 5 & 6 you’d replaced the rickety table or whatever was making the thumping noise through the last few chapters of this book… very distracting
May 6th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Sorry about that Kanein, it’s my desk, it has a board lose and my knee hits it cause I’m normally very gittery when I record for some reason. I got the desk fixed so it shouldn’t be as bad in the next chapters.
June 20th, 2011 at 11:58 pm
Take seriously the announcement that this is part one of a four-part adventure. Where the previous instalments of the saga of the Arwen were self-contained, complete stories, this one is most definitely an overture and you need to listen to all four parts to achieve any sort of closure. I feel a bit cheated by Tim’s decision to publish this in the guise of an independent work. When I download a book, I expect to get a complete story arc, not just a single act of the complete play. It is completely permissible to embed hooks and seeds of sequels in the work at hand. I have liked the Arwen stories, anyway, so perhaps I’ll overcome my resentment and download the rest of this work, assemble it back to its un-mutilated state, and listen to the full book in one go.
June 23rd, 2011 at 4:44 am
Hey Pirvonen, thanks for the thoughtful comment.
The idea to break the story up into four parts wasn’t’ one I took lightly. Actually, it was only supposed to be three parts but I got about 40,000 words into The Final Days of Peace and realized I still had a lot of story to tell so I broke it up into 4.
Anyway, I figured I had to break it up because I knew it was going to be a long story, turns out it would have been 55 parts and that just seemed an awful lot to ask of my listeners to sit through 55 parts, it would be very intimidating even for the most avid of Podibooker listeners so I broke it up where I felt logically the story could be broken up:
Season 4- Reintroduce the characters in an exciting way, lay some seeds that will come into play later in later chapters, make it fun and exciting and set the Arwen off on it’s next adventure
Season 5-Introduce the bad guys and their motivation. Introduce Commander Monrow, set the stage for season 6.
Season 6-Further develop the bad guys, show how much of a threat they are. Dig deeper into the Alien Cabal as they interacted with the human race. Give Captain Cook some motivation to continue the fight after the events of Season 5.
Season 7-The conclusion of the story, which also happens to be the longest Arwen season I’ve written.
I broke the up based on time passing, each Season takes place after a lengthy passage of time from when pervious season ended. All in all about 8 years will pass from Season 4 to the end of Season 7.
I do hope you give the other seasons a chance and you see my logic when it’s all over. I’d like to hear from you again if you do get to the end to see if my little experiment worked.