Hello! I am Robert Willnow, a pen name because ten thousand Robert Allens have already published books. My preference is for complex world building, long-term payoffs of loose threads, and putting myself into each character.
AI: I do not and have never used AI in any capacity for my writing, storyboarding, or ideation. I DID use it for original covers. When publishing initially, I mistakenly believed my only options were professional cover artists (beyond my budget) or AI. This misrepresented my work, and I regret that choice. After NASA's Artemis mission, I realized NASA photos are free to use. Now my covers come from either NASA or my own camera roll, and they are far better than the AI slop. Sorry about that.
If you like fun adventures, realistic characters, classic science fiction, or grounded science, you will enjoy my work.
Teron and Koral just came to take photos and head home. Now they are stranded with no hope. Unless...
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Life is sweet for Troy, working and living on a top-secret research cruise ship above the clouds of Venus. Until it isn't.
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Ananya is stuck on a backwater asteroid mine, bored and lonely. Bored enough to flip some switches.
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From improv to action hero, Henry's decades of effort to find a job, any job, may finally pay off.
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