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About Jason Fry
The Jupiter Pirates is part high-seas adventure and part space-age epic -- I've had a blast writing the series and can't wait to share it with people. Officially the Jupiter Pirates books are for kids 8-12, but readers far older than that will enjoy them too.
As for me, I'm a writer, editor, and occasional journalism consultant based in Brooklyn, N.Y, where I live with my wife Emily, my son Joshua and about a metric ton of baseball cards and Star Wars stuff. I've written more than two dozen Star Wars books and short stories for publishers including Random House, DK, Scholastic and Disney Books. Before striking out on my own as an independent writer, I spent more than 12 years at The Wall Street Journal Online, where I wrote the Real Time column about technology and co-wrote The Daily Fix, a daily roundup of great sportswriting. I co-write Faith and Fear in Flushing (www.faithandfearinflushing.com), a blog about the New York Mets, with my friend Greg Prince.
If that seems like an odd mix, well, I think so too. But one way or another, I've written or worked with writers nearly all my life. It's all I ever wanted to do, and I'm profoundly grateful that I've been able to do it.
Whether you're writing about a far-off galaxy, a nearby baseball team or the promise of technology, the path to becoming a successful writer is the same: Write every day, learn from other writers and from good editors, push your writing to make sure it's as clear and engaging as possible, and value every form of writing you get to do. And be nice.
For more on the Jupiter Pirates, drop by jupiterpirates.com. For more about me, see my personal page at www.jasonfry.net or visit my Tumblr at jasonfry.tumblr.com. Thanks for reading!
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Blog postA year ago, a mishap with a vase led to a jagged chunk of glass giving my wrist what an ER nurse called “quite a whack.” Here’s the story of what happened after that … and, more importantly, everything that somehow didn’t happen.
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Blog postMore movies everyone’s seen but me!
The Lion in Winter (1968)
A chronicle of the most awkward family gathering in history, The Lion in Winter takes place on Christmas Eve 1168. Henry II has sprung his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, from house arrest for the holiday – and to settle the question of who will be the next king of England. The heir, Young Henry, has died, leaving his three brothers as candidates for the throne: Richard, a military genius who’s also a murderous hothead; G2 months ago Read more -
Blog postI Will Be Very Sad if Betelgeuse Explodes: I really liked this quietly lovely story about Betelgeuse, the stars and the supposedly unchanging night sky. Ignore the dopey headline and enjoy.
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Blog postAnother winter means more time for me to catch up with movies everyone’s seen but me!
Dark Passage (1947)
As a Star Wars author I’ve fielded more than my share of complaints – some justified, most nitpicky neckbeard stuff – about plot logic. I really recommend that those folks stay away from old movies, including a lot of ones considered classics.
This Bogart-Bacall film noir has a lot of ardent fans, and I see why. The stars are great, Agnes Moorhead nearly upstages them2 months ago Read more -
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Return of a Faith and Fear in Flushing tradition, in which I welcome 2019′s new Mets to The Holy Books. Rest assured, I have things to say about Adeiny Hechavarria. I hate that fucking guy.
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Blog postSo here’s my new project: a Minecraft novel! For kids! It probably won’t arrive with the title Minecraft Novel 5, though you never know. It’s about a young man who’s content to live with his cats and putter in his garden, until the unimaginable happens.
This one started with a question: Did I play Minecraft? I didn’t. Obviously I needed to. And so that’s how I spent the first month, and it was awesome.
“Why are you up at 4 a.m. playing a video game?"
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Blog postThis Is the Hardcover Edition « Faith and Fear in Flushing: The Mets’ loss to the Marlins sent me to my baseball library in search of solace – and a little defiance.
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Blog postLexiCon 2019: Hey Mid-Atlantic folks! I’ll be at LexiCon in Lexington Park, Md., this Saturday from 12 pm to 4 pm. I’ll be talking Star Wars and storytelling at 12p and selling/signing books after that. Come say hello!
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Blog postHere’s a fun Star Wars interview with Talking Bay 94. We cover the secret sauce of cross-sections books, what it was like working with Rian Johnson, my origins as an RPG writer, that prologue to The Last Jedi novelization, the “lost” Master Codebreaker scene, and more.
N.B.: I’d just been watching baseball on Coney Island, so I was a little manic.
Enjoy!
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Blog postThe Fabric of Summer « Faith and Fear in Flushing: The Brooklyn Cyclones won the New York-Penn League title last night. The Mets game came down to two former Cyclones. I kept track of it all in MCU Park and on the F train until finally … oh, just read the post. I promise it’s a fun one!
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Blog postWhile I was in Greece, I fell in love with Playmobil’s series of Greek gods and goddesses, but was puzzled that it didn’t include Dionysus and Hades.
So, being a lunatic, I decided to make my own.
Pantheon complete!
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Blog postA Day at the Yard « Faith and Fear in Flushing: A running diary of a Thursday matinee with Jacob deGrom and the Mets.
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Blog postArtistic Cruelty « Faith and Fear in Flushing: The Mets and Giants played a marathon game that was impressive for the sheer cruelty of its ending.
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Blog postWhen I was seven, I spent a summer in rural Greece. This is what it was like to go back when I was 50. It would mean a lot to me if you’d read it. (Warning: It’s long!)
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Blog postI adored Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy as a kid and continue to feel that way as an adult: Le Guin taught me an enormous amount about world-building, description and the value of sticking to your storytelling guns, and The Farthest Shore is an extraordinary meditation on power and the morality of its use. (Here’s a little tribute I wrote after her death.)
Starting in the 1990s, Le Guin returned to Earthsea for further books and tales, beginning with Tehanu. I remember being baff10 months ago Read more -
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Here’s to Jacob deGrom and Gary Cohen, two aces the Mets don’t deserve.
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Blog postEpisode CCCXXI: Jason Fry | Full Of Sith: More of me! (As requested by absolutely no one.) Topics on this one include the TLJ novelization creative process, the Servants of the Empire series and advice for aspiring writers. Thanks to my FOS pals for having me on!
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Blog postAround the Galaxy - A Star Wars Fan Talkshow: Episode 14 - Jason Fry on Apple Podcasts: So I’m a guest on two podcasts today! For the first one, here’s Around the Galaxy. This was fun, going from my first Star Wars writing to hopes about a certain movie coming out in December. Hope you’ll give it a listen!
Here’s the TOC:
Star Wars Story Group – 14:00
Writing The Last Jedi – 18:30
Dealing with TLJ Backlash – 25:15
The Skywalker Dream Prologue – 33:30
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Blog postAmazing what even a quick-and-dirty Photoshop job can do to bring a badly faded old photo back to life. Momentarily pleased with myself!
(The people are Newton Walter Bunting and his wife Mary Elizabeth Arnold Bunting, from Johnson County, Tenn., in the early 1900s. Mary Elizabeth is my second cousin three times removed.)
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From the ashes of the Empire has arisen another threat to the galaxy’s freedom: the ruthless First Order. Fortunately, new heroes have emerged to take up arms—and perhaps lay down their lives—for the cause. Rey, the orphan strong in the Force; Finn, the ex-stormtrooper who stands against his former masters; and Poe Dameron, the fearless X-wing pilot, have been drawn together to fight side-by-side with General Leia Organa and the Resistance. But the First Order’s Supreme Leader Snoke and his merciless enforcer Kylo Ren are adversaries with superior numbers and devastating firepower at their command. Against this enemy, the champions of light may finally be facing their extinction. Their only hope rests with a lost legend: Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
Where the action of Star Wars: The Force Awakens ended, Star Wars: The Last Jedi begins, as the battle between light and dark climbs to astonishing new heights.
Featuring thrilling photos from the hit movie
Like many a great epic, Star Wars is rooted in a rich history of armed conflict. Now, for the first time, the facts, figures, and fascinating backstories of major clashes and combatants in the vast Star Wars universe have been documented in one fully illustrated volume. Extensively researched and inventively written, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare combines action-filled narrative with encyclopedic knowledge that:
• explores notable military units and groups
• traces the development of significant armaments and technologies
• profiles key warship classes, ground units, and manufacturers
• provides capsule biographies of great military leaders
• presents eyewitness troopers’ accounts of combat
• plus—enough additional profiles, intel, history, and lore to span the cosmos!
Encompassing all of the Star Wars media, including the legendary films, the hit TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the bestselling books, comics, and videogames, and packed with original artwork, Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare is a conquering achievement.
Stax Stonecutter has lived a peaceful—if unremarkable—life in his small town in the Overworld. The son of great adventurers and wise builders, Stax prefers an easier life. He loves to tend to his gardens and play with his cats all day, rather than venturing out to explore the surrounding lands. It’s quiet on his estate, even lonely sometimes, but it suits Stax well enough.
His solitude is shattered when a mysterious stranger arrives with a band of merciless raiders. In one terrible night, Stax’s old life is taken from him, and he is left stranded in the middle of nowhere, angry and alone. He’s never left home, and now he knows why: everything beyond the boundaries of his little town is scary and dangerous! But as he begins his long journey back, Stax encounters fascinating travelers who show him that there’s more to the Overworld than marauding pirates and frightening mobs; there are beautiful lands to explore, fantastical contraptions to build, and new friends to meet. It may have taken losing everything he once knew, but on his adventure Stax finds something more valuable than all the diamonds in the Overworld: a whole wonderful world that’s just waiting to be explored.
How the interplay between government regulation and the private sector has shaped the electric industry, from its nineteenth-century origins to twenty-first-century market restructuring.
For more than a century, the interplay between private, investor-owned electric utilities and government regulators has shaped the electric power industry in the United States. Provision of an essential service to largely dependent consumers invited government oversight and ever more sophisticated market intervention. The industry has sought to manage, co-opt, and profit from government regulation. In The Power Brokers, Jeremiah Lambert maps this complex interaction from the late nineteenth century to the present day.
Lambert's narrative focuses on seven important industry players: Samuel Insull, the principal industry architect and prime mover; David Lilienthal, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), who waged a desperate battle for market share; Don Hodel, who presided over the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) in its failed attempt to launch a multi-plant nuclear power program; Paul Joskow, the MIT economics professor who foresaw a restructured and competitive electric power industry; Enron's Ken Lay, master of political influence and market-rigging; Amory Lovins, a pioneer proponent of sustainable power; and Jim Rogers, head of Duke Energy, a giant coal-fired utility threatened by decarbonization. Lambert tells how Insull built an empire in a regulatory vacuum, and how the government entered the electricity marketplace by making cheap hydropower available through the TVA. He describes the failed overreach of the BPA, the rise of competitive electricity markets, Enron's market manipulation, Lovins's radical vision of a decentralized industry powered by renewables, and Rogers's remarkable effort to influence cap-and-trade legislation. Lambert shows how the power industry has sought to use regulatory change to preserve or secure market dominance and how rogue players have gamed imperfectly restructured electricity markets. Integrating regulation and competition in this industry has proven a difficult experiment.
DK Reader L4: Star Wars Rogue One™ combines DK's four-level reading scheme with the exciting box office record-breaking Star Wars movies. DK Readers help kids learn to love reading.
DK Readers are leveled into stages to help every child progress and become a confident reader. They feature engaging and highly illustrated topics with true kid appeal. The story narrative is supported with interactive genre spreads and questions to encourage children to access information from a range of sources and develop comprehension skills.
Star Wars meets Treasure Island in Book 3 of the swashbuckling sci-fi adventure series School Library Journal called “space opera in the classic style” in a starred review, from New York Times bestselling author Jason Fry.
For Tycho Hashoone and his family, space privateering is more than a business—it’s a way of life. Now that the Jovian Union needs their help more than ever, their way of life is about to get a lot more complicated.
Earth is preparing to mount an arms race, and it seems they’ve started recruiting privateers of their own. Meanwhile, the Ice Wolves of Saturn are still on the offensive, and their ruthless tactics make them look like the pirates of old. Trapped between two formidable foes, the Jovian Union has asked for all hands on deck—and that includes the Hashoones and their ship, the Shadow Comet. The stage has been set for a showdown on the Cybele asteroids, a place where neutrality is for sale and friends always go to the highest bidder.
With so many players vying for power, Tycho will have to decide once and for all where his allegiances lie. Because the day when his mother will step down as ship captain is approaching fast—and the fate of much more than the Shadow Comet hangs in the balance.
Treasure Island meets Battlestar Galactica in Book 2 of the swashbuckling sci-fi adventure series SLJ called "space opera in the classic style" in a starred review, from New York Times bestselling author Jason Fry.
It's been a tough year for Tycho Hashoone and his family. Hostilities between the Jovian Union and Earth have reached a boiling point. The privateering business hasn't exactly been booming. And the ongoing contest for the captain's seat of the Shadow Comet has the three Hashoone siblings perpetually on edge. Then the Hashoones intercept a ship—one with a long-dead crew, its final mission a warning to all who seek their fortunes in space. The Hashoones don't have time for ill omens; they need a payday. Following clues from the mysterious ship, they embark on a hunt for the long-lost treasure of the Iris—a treasure that Tycho's own great-grandfather Johannes had a hand in hiding. But in his quest for the Iris cache, Tycho is going to dig up much more than he bargained for. Because like old pirate treasure, family secrets never stay buried for long.
Filled with action, intrigue, and one unforgettable family, The Jupiter Pirates: Curse of the Iris takes readers across the depths of space and brings the Jupiter Pirates saga to new heights.
Treasure Island meets Battlestar Galactica in book one of the swashbuckling sci-fi adventure series SLJ called "space opera in the classic style" in a starred review, from New York Times bestselling author Jason Fry.
The relationship between Tycho Hashoone, his twin sister, Yana, and their older brother, Carlo, isn't your average sibling rivalry. They might be crew members together aboard the Shadow Comet, but only one of them can be the next ship captain. So when the Hashoones find themselves in the midst of a dangerous conspiracy—one that will pit them against space pirates, Earth diplomats, and even treachery from within the family—each sibling is desperate to prove his or her worth. The only trouble is, if they don't work together, none of them may make it out alive.
Perfect for fans of fantasy adventures like Ranger's Apprentice and such space-age epics as Star Wars, The Jupiter Pirates: Hunt for the Hydra is a wholly original saga about a galaxy on the brink of war and one unforgettable family caught in the cross fire.
Don't miss the action-packed sequel, Curse of the Iris.
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