Author Allen Steele has just launced a web site for his bestselling and critically acclaimed Coyote series. www.coyoteseries.com is “the creation of Steele and web site designer Gary Rose. Its subject is the Coyote series of novels—Coyote, Coyote Rising, Coyote Frontier, and the forthcoming Coyote Horizon—and the novels set in its universe (Spindrift and the recently published Galaxy Blues).”
The site features:
* A video introduction by Allen Steele
* A podcast reading from Coyote by the author
* A free Coyote short story, “The War of Dogs and Boids”, previously available only on Amazon
* A gallery of artwork—some previously unpublished—by Ron Miller, John Harris, Rob Caswell, and Thomas J. Peters
* An extensive concordance of characters, locations, spacecraft, and events
* A set of interactive maps of Coyote
* A trivia quiz
* A readers forum
* Links to the American and British publishers and booksellers of the Coyote series
* A contest to win a copy of Galaxy Blues
The Coyote books are set in the future, and follow the discovery and colonization of the Earth-like planet Coyote, in orbit around a gas giant some 40 light years from Earth. The related novels also deal with humanity’s role in the larger galaxy, as other intelligent species are discovered (or discover us).
SFScope previously reviewed Spindrift, Galaxy Blues, and The River Horses, a short novel set on Coyote.