Thanks.I don’t know what happens.I click on links to your site then the about author box always pops up quickly and it seems to disable me from clicking the download PDF button.Weird.
I’m the last one to diagnose computer problems. I sent you the PDF… let me know if it didn’t go through.
Thanks for your support and I hope you enjoy!
Congratulations, man! I’m trying to get one of my books published right now, so I can understand how difficult of a process it is. That’s quite an achievement. I can’t wait to read it one day!
Just want to congratulate you again! It really is quite an accomplishment to complete and publish a book of this size. I’m considering a purchase, but still waiting for a larger consensus to see what’s up.
Thanks for the great story. Though I have to admit I was soooooo hoping that annoying Stephanie would end up getting shipped to Srillium.
What about that Harcourt guy at the Transportation office? It seemed to me that he wanted Alistair to see his code - or was I just reading too much into it?
Best of luck to you, my friend! And you don’t have to wait if you are short on funds: go to www.withurwe.com and you can download the PDF version for free!
Of course, if you want to buy 30 copies and pass them out to friends and relatives, I suppose that would be ok 
Thanks again! You know you can take it for a free test drive, right?
Talk to you soon!
LOL! How about Travis?
Interesting perspective. I actually never considered that possibility. It is interesting hearing these things. My best friend is reading it right now and he was suspicious that when Captain Travis kept asking Stephanie how one could justify what the state does, he was trying to see if she was a libertarian because he secretly was too.
It’s always fun to hear how other people are viewing your work. Unless they’re rude.
@ gocrew
Count me as another fan of Withur We. It is one of the few science fiction books I have read that I had a hard time putting down. I spent a few nights staying up way too late because I just had to see what would happen next!
I particularly enjoyed the economics and libertarian ethics sprinkled about within the story. One of the characters even mentioned Ludwig von Mises’ name! What a breath of fresh air.
Gracias, Jorge! Me alegraste el dia!
And in case I am making untrue assumptions based on your name: Thanks, Jorge! You brightened my day!
It was an accurate assumption. I’m bi…cultural that is.
I shared your friend’s assumption on Travis. It was probably more my desire to see someone betray the state from the inside than any particular way you wrote the character. Part of the beauty of it is that it did keep me guessing on a great many of the characters motivations. Which is, in turn, what kept me reading the book for extended sittings. I have to sheepishly admit that I actually called in sick to work to finish the last 1/3 of it
That’s just freakin’ awesome. I think that deserves its own update on the Facebook page!
Muchisimas gracias!
Finished your book a few days ago and I had to sign up here just so I could say thankyou and provide an endorsement for anyone wondering if they should bother.
This book is excellent and was difficult to put down. I read the whole thing as a PDF on my iPhone (a PayPal donate button on your website might get some attention from PDF downloaders btw). The book is even proving excellent for reflection. I like the division into 3 parts with each part providing a totally different perspective and being almost able to stand independent from each other.
I found part 2 the most difficult to put down, I even had a couple of nights of insomnia as my mind was buzzing. Even with the fatalistic undercurrent of the book, the whole thing was frankly inspiring, and inspired. I need a sequel now unfortunately; I hope you don’t leave us without one because we need to revisit Srillium.
Well done and keep on churning this stuff out. I hope it’s profitable for you.
Hilarious remark from one of the Amazon reviews:
I don’t think it gives anything away to say that nothing comes easily and Alistair’s life is seldom happy. He is, after all, a libertarian.
That’s so wonderful to read. Thank you so much! I’m thrilled that you enjoyed it (and that it is sticking with you). At this point, I am pretty much determined to write a sequel, although I don’t know if it will be my next book or not. I have another idea I am kicking around that might be my next project, but a sequel to Withur We seems pretty certain at this point.
A number of people have mentioned that they liked part 2 the best, which I am glad to hear. As I was writing it, I was worried it might be too didactic. Of course, this crowd is naturally inclined towards my perspective, so it will be interesting to see what others might think, but I am glad that part 2 is going over well.
Thanks again, my friend!
Yeah, I laughed out loud when I read that!
Oh god, this is such a necro. But a couple things I noticed/want clarified:
(BLATANT SPOILERS BELOW)
(1) I am not sure if this is intentional or not, but the fate of the surrendering Gaians in Floralel is a bit strange. They surrender, a couple assist Alistair’s group in stopping the city from being levelled by missiles, Alistair has all the valuables transportered out of the city, and then has it destroyed… with the prisoners still inside?
I dunno, maybe I am reading into this too much, but it seems odd that Alistair (who does whatever he can to avoid shooting Civil Guard, and refuses to execute any after taking over the train) suddenly leaves those prisoners to get blown up.
(2) Okay, I am DEFINITELY looking into the following two a bit much, but how Earth end up with about 1/4th of the entire population of the galaxy (mentioned somewhere near the end, the Sol system having half of Humanity in it and Terra having half of that)? Judging by the fact that Rendral has 20 million people, Aldra has many more, and Aldra is small/insignificant on the large scale, that implies that Earth has about 100+ billion people on it. That isn’t even taking into account that Aldra is 434 LY away from Earth, meaning there are probably loads of colonized planets along the way
(3) How are the systems upkeeping Srillium working? I mean, it is mentioned that the process of terraforming requires constant work and fine tuning (hence the destruction of the Alien civilizations at the end of the book), yet Srillium seems to need none at all. Barring the ye-olde Korean terminal protecting the atmosphere, there is nothing keeping things working.
(4) Is Srillium littered with Gaian cities, or what? 6 cities (might have miscounted) are looted, and yet they keep chucking missiles at captured cities.
If you can’t answer some of these, that is understandable (since they are questions about somewhat obscure backstory 
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Hola, My Buddy!
(1) The prisoners were not inside. It is quite possible that, through all the editing, I wound up with a final version where that sort of thing was left ambiguous. There was, in the first draft, a short chapter right after that one where things were wrapped up perhaps more clearly. In the interest of getting from 400,000 to 320,000 words, and of making sure a very long book did not dally too much, I cut that chapter.
You are quite correct: as much as Alistair detests the Gaians, he wouldn’t do something like that!
(2) I believe I envisioned Earth as having around 20,000,000,000 people when I did my prep work, leaving about 40 billion outside the home system. Rendral is indeed a gigantic city by our standards, but Rendral was also meant to have a large chunk of Aldra’s overall population (a lot of history which is only touched on in the Homesteaders segment). Aldra’s overall population is well under a billion, due to their small start and near zero immigration. I believe I envisioned Kaldis as having the largest population outside of Sol, with just a few billion (I’d have to track down my notes). The total number of colonized worlds was probably around thirty or so.
(3) Good question! In developing Srillium, I needed to create a habitable planet, but one that wasn’t worth enough to colonize, one that could be left to prisoners. Other than the powerful magnetosphere threatening the moon, it is fairly attractive in the book. I toyed with some sort of maintenance systems in the Gaian cities, but never developed it very far as it didn’t affect my current story (more on that will come out in the sequel). Other than that, the proximity to a gas giant and the earthquakes caused by it, as well as the always increased prospect of meteors colliding with the planet due to the steep gravity well of the gas giant, were enough, I thought, to make it unattractive as a place for long term colonizing.
(4) Yeah, Srillium has all sorts of Gaian cities, each one tasked with patrolling a few million square miles or so of turf.
Thanks for the questions! 
Great book! I’ve only been reading for 5 days and I just started chapter 77. After the first 150 pages or so, it became hard to put down. As a science-fiction reader, this is certainly a winner. I ordered your book the other day, but I’m probably going to finish reading it as a pdf before I get it.
Also, i wanted to comment on point #1 in the above posts:
(1) The Gaians started to evacuate the city before they even took the command center I think. (I believe) One Gaian explains that when the “signal is given”, the other cities order a missile be fired at the city. The Gaian then goes on to say that his brothers gave the signal before they reached the command center and after that signal is given the city is presumed lost.
I personally assumed while reading that most Gaians would be aware of this policy and/or that the brothers would warn all the Gaians to evacuate. Although, in hindsight, I guess one could think that some Gaians could be ignorant of what was happening, despite some sort of evacuation (at the least led by the brothers if not by some sort of automated warning system) after the signal is given and the time afterwards when Alistair and his party ransacked the city,