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Dyson Jungle
COVER REVEAL - An Amphoran warrior and his extraterrestrial counterpart, jubilant after a successful raid on a rival clan!
The book that this cover is for is now LIVE over on kickstarter - take a look! Enjoy the silly video we made!
Daybreak at the Ancestor Bough
More here.
There aren't enough Dyson Trees in Science Fiction.
I can't believe Dan Simmon's Hyperion was the first time I heard of this concept.
It's a tree that's a space ship. A space ship that is a tree. It's the most delicious idea! Where is it?
It's called Dyson after Freeman J. Dyson, a mathematician and physicist, who also thought up the Dyson Sphere. A concept I'm sure many are familiar with. (There's also the O'Neill Cylinder, that colony thing at the end of Interstellar)
A Dyson Tree is a construct where a plant grows inside a comet or asteroid or something and produces it's own atmosphere. With a human crew it could easily be envisioned as a system where humans produce CO2 and the plant produces oxygen. Slap on some thrusters and you have a space ship. Some artificial gravity and you have a tree instead of a bush.
Tree houses! In space!
And it's not just some fancy scifi nonsense, oh no! An actual nerd thought of this!
Uncredited artist’s concept of a Dyson tree, a hypothetical, spherical, genetically engineered plant capable of growing inside a comet
Dyson Forest Convoy
Here, in its entirety - "HALE-BOPP", a comic drawn back in 2017 for my patreon. Set in the far future, it tells of the Hale-Bopp Dyson tree, the hive men who reside within it, and some extraterrestrial vacuumorphs who attempt to take up residence alongside them.
This story, and more like it, will be coming to kickstarter as part of a sci-fi comic collection called "A Star Called The Sun"... so keep your eyes peeled for it...
The hive-men of HALE-BOPP first showed up in print form back in 2016, for the cover of @imagecomics 's Island Magazine. I'm still keen on this piece - a dyson tree's crew receiving trade goods from a Euhumanist vessel, with the euhumanist security trooper eyeing his hive-equivalent suspiciously.
But the look and feel of the hive-men and their living space-suits were codified in sketches the preceding year, while i was still dreaming of an epic tale of hive-men colonizing mars (to be drawn by Matt Sheean).
This drawing in particular, from 2015, ended up getting snuck into last year's book, REFUGIUM, along with the Hale-Bopp Dyson Tree - EASTER EGGS FOR EVERYONE
If you'd like to read "HALE-BOPP" in it's entirety, you can find it on my patreon or on webtoon... and if you like sci-fi explorations of life in the hive without it being another cartoonishly evil stock villain, ruled by a single HIVE QUEEN/BRAIN BUG/etc, and more like a living eusocial community, you might enjoy the story I've got serializing on webtoon next week...