Post by cesarm3 on May 14, 2018 10:46:27 GMT -5
(So excited for the contest! Will happily reciprocate any feedback.)
A brutal resource war in a far off solar system is probably not the place for an escaped gladiator with a budding conscience, but a slave might not get a second chance at freedom. Seventeen-year-old Kweilin Wen saw his opportunity and took it. After months of dropping bombs on an alien planet so the company can continue to strip mine it, a massive eruption of the local star disables his orbital bomber, forcing a crash landing in hostile territory.
The moment he’s captured, the lies he had no reason to question begin unraveling—starting with the idea that the rebels took no prisoners. When Kweilin meets the “resource” the company is mining, his commitment to make it home with a paycheck fat enough to buy his sister’s freedom comes into conflict with his circumstances and sentiments. The company has been carving up a two billion-year-old lifeform, a massive crystalline entity that considers itself the caretaker of life on its planet, including the newly arrived humans.
In the midst of this madness, life refuses to hand Kweilin any moral certainty. He just might have the key to a rebel victory: not battle prowess, but his unlikely friendship with a rogue corporate A.I. If the rebels win, however, Kweilin loses his ticket home and the paycheck that would save his sister.
DAWN OF A NEW SUN is YA sci-fi and complete at 94,000 words. The novel combines the action and thrill of Avatar with the philosophical depth of Stranger in a Strange Land. It also shares the moral distress of nearing adulthood in a violent dystopia found in Veronica Roth’s Divergent.
A brutal resource war in a far off solar system is probably not the place for an escaped gladiator with a budding conscience, but a slave might not get a second chance at freedom. Seventeen-year-old Kweilin Wen saw his opportunity and took it. After months of dropping bombs on an alien planet so the company can continue to strip mine it, a massive eruption of the local star disables his orbital bomber, forcing a crash landing in hostile territory.
The moment he’s captured, the lies he had no reason to question begin unraveling—starting with the idea that the rebels took no prisoners. When Kweilin meets the “resource” the company is mining, his commitment to make it home with a paycheck fat enough to buy his sister’s freedom comes into conflict with his circumstances and sentiments. The company has been carving up a two billion-year-old lifeform, a massive crystalline entity that considers itself the caretaker of life on its planet, including the newly arrived humans.
In the midst of this madness, life refuses to hand Kweilin any moral certainty. He just might have the key to a rebel victory: not battle prowess, but his unlikely friendship with a rogue corporate A.I. If the rebels win, however, Kweilin loses his ticket home and the paycheck that would save his sister.
DAWN OF A NEW SUN is YA sci-fi and complete at 94,000 words. The novel combines the action and thrill of Avatar with the philosophical depth of Stranger in a Strange Land. It also shares the moral distress of nearing adulthood in a violent dystopia found in Veronica Roth’s Divergent.