Synopsis
Emilie didn’t come to Japan because she enjoyed being out of her comfort zone. She hadn’t wanted to come at all, but a request from her brother forced her hand. So when she finds herself pulled out of her own dimension and unable to go home, it’s like a nightmare. It’s a world filled with formulaic magic and strange technology, a place filled with conmen and royalty.
Before she came to this place, however, someone else did. A shadow, laying in the wait, unknown, and... the key to her finding her way home.
About the Author
Samantha Dauphinais is expatriot living in Japan, doing what most expats do: teaching English. She has a job at a Kindergarten that she adores, and a nice apartment right outside Osaka City that she shares with her two cats.
To write has always been a goal of hers since her first short story in her 5th year of Elementary School, but since moving away from the United States, time has been hard sought for.
NaNoWriMo became the force to get her to actually write things despite the time crunch and now summer break from work has become the time to refine it all.
About The Thematic Sciences
The Thematic Sciences is the story I challenged myself to write during NaNoWriMo 2015. It is a blend of fantasy and science fiction, where magic has become something studied, something broken down and researched.
Emilie Wormwood is from our world however, and a girl who hates being forced out of her comfort zone. She’s already been forced to challenge herself by living in a foreign country at the behest of her older brother. Being torn from her dimension and thrown into another one, a version of her world where magic is as everyday as breathing, where technology has developed a bit differently due to the magic that was at hand, a place that most people could only dream to be a part of, that’s a bit too much for her to handle.
All she wants to do is return home. All she wants to do is wrap herself back up in the familiarity of her boring life. The only problem? She can’t. Not without first putting herself out there, not without doing all those things she hates to do.
The idea for Thematic Sciences came to me from both observing how different expatriots living in Japan, like myself, adapt (or don’t) and wondering what if magic could be reduced down to mathematical or chemical equations.
But of course, there’s also a little bit of me that has always enjoyed it when a group bands together to try and take down an ultimate evil. I mean, that’s one of the things that makes fantasy iconic, isn’t it?