A post war fiction set in the cold and unforgiving landscape of Iceland. Decades after the end of a desperate war in the north. A sleeping threat to the stability of the regime is awoken.
In a post-apocalyptic future, fractured timelines are wreaking havoc on the world. Only a tough, hard-drinking enforcer named Jack Trevayne can hold things together. This is gritty, hard-boiled sci-fi with attitude. The future is complicated. Jack is not.
I added two of the three remaining previews today, featuring Hendrix and Steiner.
Hendrix was a bit of a challenge to write. Not because the viewpoint of someone in middle management was overly complicated, but because of the extremely casual racism/classism involved in many of the characters of his setting. It’s one thing to be really hateful and spiteful of others, but to make it so expected and ingrained felt really unnatural. His perspective was easily the hardest to write from, and I managed to do it by making up entirely new ethnic groups to do it with. Also, his viewpoint starts with a Noir theme, because the films always remind me of the things you’re not seeing being equally important.
Steiner, by contrast, was a lot easier. There’s a plethora of post-apocalyptic settings out there, most of the time you’re thrust into the setting part way, and a lot of times they come from an extreme idealist or pessimist point of view. There aren’t too many realist takes on it from what I can tell, so Steiner’s perspective is one of pragmatic survival after surviving a devastating attack on his home.
I put both of these up together because both are set in CE, or Common Era, instead of one of the made up time periods. Part of the idea of the book is to figure out how one time period transitions into the other, with various clues in the previous setting hinting at something that made a major problem later. Of course, its hard to do all that in a preview without posting entire chapters, but these are just to whet the appetite anyways.
Last preview coming on Friday! and its from Joyce’s perspective, so that’ll complete the set!
Hendrix was a bit of a challenge to write. Not because the viewpoint of someone in middle management was overly complicated, but because of the extremely casual racism/classism involved in many of the characters of his setting. It’s one thing to be really hateful and spiteful of others, but to make it so expected and ingrained felt really unnatural. His perspective was easily the hardest to write from, and I managed to do it by making up entirely new ethnic groups to do it with. Also, his viewpoint starts with a Noir theme, because the films always remind me of the things you’re not seeing being equally important.
Steiner, by contrast, was a lot easier. There’s a plethora of post-apocalyptic settings out there, most of the time you’re thrust into the setting part way, and a lot of times they come from an extreme idealist or pessimist point of view. There aren’t too many realist takes on it from what I can tell, so Steiner’s perspective is one of pragmatic survival after surviving a devastating attack on his home.
I put both of these up together because both are set in CE, or Common Era, instead of one of the made up time periods. Part of the idea of the book is to figure out how one time period transitions into the other, with various clues in the previous setting hinting at something that made a major problem later. Of course, its hard to do all that in a preview without posting entire chapters, but these are just to whet the appetite anyways.
Last preview coming on Friday! and its from Joyce’s perspective, so that’ll complete the set!