STONEY
COMPTON
NOVELS &
ETCETERA
HISTORICAL FICTION
SCIENCE FICTION &
ALTERNATE HISTORY
& A FEW PERSONAL
ILLUSTRATED NOTES
Kayaking at Lena Cove near Juneau, Alaska during Alaskan Brewing crew party in 1989.
Click on the image to visit the brewery.
Frozen Yukon River, winter of 1975. I worked for the Tanana Chiefs Conference and we were en route to Ft. Yukon.
Click on the image to visit TCC!
I will be a presenter at WorldCon in Seattle in August 2025! See you there?
Alaska, 1987. In a world where Alaska is still a Russian possession, Charter Captain Grigoriy Grigorievich has a stained past. As a major in the Czar’s elite Troika Guard he was cashiered for disobeying an insane direct order.
Now, ten years later, Grisha charters out to a cossack and discovers his past has not only caught up with him, but is about to violently change his future, and the future of all nine nations of North America as well.
Revolution against an oppressor, continent-
wide alliances, and the epic struggle of a people fighting to be free. Spanning Alaska from the Southeastern Inside Passage to the frozen Yukon River, this is an epic tale of one man’s journey of redemption and
courage to face old fears, fresh challenges, and help birth a new nation.
When Lieutenant Gerald Yamato of the Republic of California Air Force bailed out of his doomed fighter, he had no idea that he would land in a culture and the heart of a battle that would forever change his life.
The Dené thought they had won their independence and the war was over. Suddenly, they find themselves facing an advancing Russian army from one direction and a band of mercenaries from the other.
Despite assurances to the contrary by distant diplomats, the new Dené Republik finds themselves with a war on their hands. They are not alone. The Tlingit Nation shares their struggle, and the USA and the Republic of California vow all the aid they can muster.
Will the assistance be enough to turn the tides of war in favor of the Dené? If so, what will be the ultimate cost?
The Alaska Republik has won independence from Russia and the real challenge, to form a viable nation, is just beginning.
Yukon Cassidy is asked to create a unified force to ensure safety and tranquility across the Great Land. The Peacekeepers are spread thin and immediately encounter plots to destroy the young republik.
Who are the adversaries? British Canada, France, First People’s Nation, or yet another army of mercenaries?
Perhaps a coalition?
Alaska Republik’s allies, the Republic of California and the United States are owed great debts difficult to repay.
Cassidy has a real Challenge.
In the years after the stars fell, young Noah Manaluk, an Inupiat Eskimo living at Point Hope, Alaska, eats a piece of possessed seal liver that changes his life. By the time he is 17 he is a shaman who can call game to the hunters’ spears and fish into nets cast by the People.
Thinker, a humpback whale, is the only one of his pod who perceives anything beyond his immediate surroundings. He has been aware for some time of the longteeth waiting at the top of the world, but now something has changed. A new presence has arrived and is calling out to him.
To his surprise, Thinker has discovered another creature exists who can completely communicate with him, something that has never happened in his life.
And this being wants to kill him.
Whalesong is the story of two disparate beings, enemies by the nature of their world yet closer in understanding than with any member of their own species. These two creatures have as much to learn about themselves as they do each other. Before long, they come to rely on one another as they begin a journey which will not only change the world, but save it.
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A contestant in the 1995 Iditarod Race mushing out of Anchorage, Alaska with his team of huskies.
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This was the ceremonial start. After a couple more miles the team, sled, and musher were all trucked to Willow for the actual start of the race.
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I lived about three blocks from the trail in Anchorage at the time.
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Click on the image above for my reviews on the books depicted. Ben Fox also included my synopsis of Treadwell, and an interview with John Goodwin, spokesman for the Writers of the Future Contest. (I'm in Writers of the Future, Volume IX!)
One of the wonderful ferries on the Alaska Marine Highway System. The ferries are the only way to see Southeast Alaska. You meet the real Alaska as well as having the opportunity to get off and stay awhile if a town calls to you.
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PLACES AND EVENTS THAT DEFINED ME
This portion will grow as I come across more photos to share.
Rudy Otteson (1941-2015) was my first real roommate in Fairbanks, Alaska. We had many adventures together including participating in the first Tanana River Raft Classic.
He was KTVFs chief engineer (I was the cameraman and film editor) and my best man in my first marriage. I don't know of a single person who didn't like him. I miss him keenly.
Ruby, Alaska on the Yukon River, 1976.
Old buildings in Ruby, Alaska. Wood is the only building material most can afford. The incredible temperature fluctuations (-65°F to 80°F over one year) dries out the wood and basically turns it into tinder. Fire is Interior Alaska's greatest fear.
Fishwheel on the Yukon River. Only the local Athabascan Indians can use these as a means of self-subsistence. "Fish Camp" is an annual event where entire families move to the river to catch the winter's supply of salmon. It is a tradition.
Sarah Maisie, my then 3-year-old daughter at Tanana Chiefs Survival School, Ruby, Alaska in 1975. She had a great time.
Me painting the "Christmas COD" at VR-24 Detachment at Naval Air Facility, Naples, Italy in 1965. COD stands for Cargo On Deck and we had 7 Grumman C-1As used to replenish the fleet at sea.
We hauled mail, cargo and passengers, out to the carriers in the Med.
I worked in Operations as a communications & air intelligence yeoman. I could also draw. This is my first paying gig as a graphics artist. I worked in that field for over 40 years.
In 1996 my son, Danford, and I went on a 16 state road trip. We visited New York City and went out to Liberty Island. I snapped this photo as a memento.
I had no idea I would never be able to do this again. The world can change so quickly.
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