The self journal On Location at Pine Hill began in 1984, but so did Space the Final Frontier, a Star Trek like space opera with a very low budget and no expectations. Young Adam Browne began this with some of his school friends in that same year.
Adam and his nephew David, who was near to his age due to an older half brother, created much of it based upon their play acting stories, gaming stories, and what could have been called role playing. The other stories had similar characters and cross referenced them, including teachers, friends, enemies, relatives and anyone. Michael Slater, Angie Tyson and Tim Cantrell appeared in these segments also.
Then in 1986, during the role playing stories of the Silly Trek, a Star Trek parody at Pine Hill, the On Location, (nonfiction), and the space story, the name was changed to Plantcom and then Planetcom. A young Jon Yeager is credited with one of the changes. Neither boy was aware of a similar name in a book called Rama. Henry Brister appeared also in both Silly Trek and in Planetcom.
David lost interest in about 1987 and left the stories, some of the games, and other elements, most of which were recycled into the stories. The last thing he did was to create the rogues, the Dementia aliens, and the Clemens, a guy who carried a spike and was a vigilante.
Jon continued with the series. Adam began training at Jung SuWon and was inspired with some of their characters, which may have been some of the background people of later Planetcom stories.
Adam graduated from Pine Hill in January 1989 and went o to college at Evergreen where he called the journals there On Location II. Also with Jon, Jim and Tim he created a science fiction fan film called Star Crackers, 1992, and began to learn writing workshops and classes.
By 1993 to 1995 the stories of the science fiction version had been renamed Distant Cousins, Distant Planets, and Distant Journeys. Contributors to these included Jung SuWon people but they didn't want Adam using their names.
The Flyer school paper inspired some of the characters and at least one person gave permission to use her name, just her first name. Others followed suit with the same caveat.
In 1995, the name was changed yet again, one copyrights and such were now newly known. The whole thing became Distant Cousins, but a short time later they became aware of a cheesy film that used the name, so unofficially it was Distant Destinies. Adam attended San Jose State at the time, with Jon, and there was a journal about that also.
Adam and Jon went on to continue with Star Crackers and Distant Destinies. The stories continued on into 2000, amassing 7 complete 'seasons' or books.
Concurrent with all of that, a journal called First Press was also produced whereas Adam also used names, mentioned people, and included his friends from church in the stories. They found out and much of those names were later changed.
Then in 2006, during a second run of San Jose State, Adam and Jon returned to the fold to make the first novel of the series, which became the 2008 novel 'The Cohnirri Redemption'. Five other novels remained not published. Enough material for a sixth remained also.
This was during the Star Trek Chimera and Star Crackers revivals, and the role playing, stories, and unpublished works of the time.
In 2007, Adam broke from Jung SuWon after 17 years. None of their names were to be used anywhere, which is why we cannot list those sources.
In 2001 to 2011, Valley Stories was the current self journal.
Then in 2015, some years later, they completed work on a extended sixth book, which became book 6 and book 7. Adam completed the series as 7 books. Now Distant Destinies is to return once more. Now there will be 6 more books! (They have 7 in all).
That is the brief history of the books.
