Jan 2008 - 4th book in 'Olympus' series underway. Thought it would only be a trilogy, but I want to know what happened next!
May 5th 2007 - The New. Latest in the 'Olympus' series.
Oct 17th - Addition to Archive page of an Original Covers section. Some of the more interesting ones. Some by Eddie Jones for Bastei.
Oct 05 - Coming Soon: 'Return To Olympus'. Pub 07/01/06. This is the sequel to 'The Kronos Factor'.
Fictionwise now have all DRM/Rankine/James/JRM titles available in ten different ebook formats!
Change of distributer. Our main American distributer eBook Content Reserve, have entirely lost the plot and decided to introduce excessive fees for using their service. This has meant, in order to continue, a change of distributer. We are not alone in having to do this. Fortunately, Golden Apple are now working with Fictionwise to produce Multiformat versions of the titles. These should build up over the next few months.
Coming Soon: 'The Kronos Factor'. Ebook out on 1st March 2004. Print out on 1st May 2004.
As of 31st May - Due to 'one charge too far' by our credit card processors, we have had to retreat to only offering our Print Titles direct from Golden Apple by cheque (UK Sterling). Unfortunately this basically rules out international cheque orders (non Sterling) as my friendly bank charges five pounds just for the conversion to sterling. I'm sure there's a way around this. I've just got to find it!
However, the Golden Apple Print Books can be now ordered through most UK book retailers and some USA bookshops (and any other bookshop that have contacts with the international distributer Gardners Books Ltd).- where you can use credit cards.
BAZOZZ ZZZ DZZ - And other Short Stories. The magazine collection. These were originally published in Galaxy, IF, Visions of Tomorrow, etc. BAZOZZ ZZZ DZZ is previously unpublished - it was due to appear in Visions of Tomorrow.
Aid For Andromeda first chapter and a half added to archive! This is the only remaining bit of the 90,000 word manuscript I could find.
Original typescripts of 'Door of Hope' and 'Locust Years' added to Archive. The 'Locust Years' typescript is the original version of the story with the hand-written amendments.
Tuo Yaw - The collection (6th April for ebook, 1st May for print). The best of DRM's short stories - Eight of which have never been previously published! More news soon. Stories which don't make it into the book will be made available as free eBooks (inc. Blockade of Sinitron, and, the only story ever writen in the first person - Door of Hope.)
On 15th March 2003 - The last four of the main novels! - 'Mission to Pactolus R', 'The Weisman Experiment', 'Ring of Violence' and 'Tower of Rizwan'. Updated Short Shories page to give more detail.
On 15th Feb 'Resurrection of Roger Diment' and 'Never the Same Door'.
On 1st Feb - 'Moons of Triopus'. And, YES, if all goes to plan, we are opening an online shop for Golden Apple PRINT publications. Also, John Rankine Dobson Original Hardback books (nine titles).
On 15th Jan - 'The Thorburn Enterprise'.
On 15th Dec - 'Dilation Effect'. And, looking forward to the New Year there could be some print versions of selected books!
15th Nov. The Fletcher Chronicles - a collection of Fletcher shorts with an original, new, climax to the series - The Heart of the Flame - the first John Rankine story for nearly twenty years!
1st Sept - At last, the original Dag Fletcher Galactic series! This link takes you staight to the Fletcher pages. The main link takes you via an I.G.O. wait screen (just for fun).
2nd Sept - 'Other Authors' section - Anne James first full length novel, Shiny Things (In Nests)
1st Aug - 'The Fingalnan Conspiracy'. Part of John Rankine's 'Gallactic Space Opera'. 3D glasses (red/blue) at the ready for the cover!
Continuity Sheet for Plantos Affair added to Archive page.
WH Smith in the UK are now supplying the listed books (see stockist page).
June 1st is 'The Phaeton Condition'. This will be closely followed on the 15th by 'The Omega Worm'.
On May 1st was 'Last Shuttle to Planet Earth'. To coincide with this is the unpublished 'Free Fishers' short story which it was based on. This, along with the handwritten pre-amble, is available free on the novel's Focus page.
On the Archive page - An interview from 1970 and Author profile sheet from 1971.
Published March 15th - The Typhon Intervention.
On 15th Feb 'Forgotton Rocket' by John Rankine - this is the original, unpublished novel, writen in 1974, which was converted to become 'Phoenix of Magaron'. See 'More'.
A free copy of Six Cubed Plus One is now available for download as an introduction to John Rankine and ebooks!
Also in production (later in the year I hope), are John Rankine's lost Starfarer series and collections of published and unpublished short stories.
Other Stuff: The Archive page. This contains, among other things, PDF files of John Rankine's Space 1999 second series Ideas Bank.