Almost two years after joining the Army in an attempt to dull the sickening grief he had felt after the death of his best friend, Delta Anders found himself deployed to worst place in the solar system, the far- flung desert known as the D-End on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede. At the beginning of a new phase of the Deltas’ mission to prepare the D-End for civilian life, the planetside troops receive a transmission from Army spacecraft that terrorists have captured heavy machinery from the mining colony on the Moon and are using their gravitational advantage to threaten thousands of lives on Earth.

In the chaos that ensues, the Deltas lose contact with Earth. Now, facing death in the cruel and inhospitable environment of Ganymede and with the fate of the world unknown to them, Anders and the others must find a way back home on their own.

About Me:

When I decided I wanted to write this book I tried to analyze my own reasoning for choosing to write science fiction. I’ve found that sci-fi as a genre has a rich tradition of exploring heavy social and political concepts with the levity of imaginary circumstances. Classic examples of this include Nineteen Eighty-Four in which George Orwell investigates the dangers of totalitarianism in a technological age (1949) and Frank Herbert’s Dune (1965) that details the implications of finite resource dependency on an empire. Though these are stories about society, they are also about individual characters’ participation in the setting.

My goals for this project are to use my experiences and training as a political scientist to create a space where the characters can explore the issues of modern warfare, cross-cultural communication and the implications of distance on interpersonal relationships within the bounds of a fictional but life-like future. In this way, I hope to wed the intellectual side of hard science fiction with the emotional aspects of character development that allow readers and authors to communicate about themselves by relating to the story.

I hope you will join the conversation with me.

Cheers,

June