An aspiring techno-nun searches for a way to get back in with the church that exiled her by scavenging antiquities in dystopic future Orange County.
First Update...
As I’m just starting to get The Underneath off the ground, I know there is a lot of work for me to do still. I wanted to stop by and say thank you to my current and future followers and those who have preordered or who have shared this project with friends and family. I also want to give readers some background information on how this story came (and is coming) to be.
Basically, when I found out about Geek and Sundry’s hard science fiction contest, my interest was piqued. The problem? Well, while I’ve always enjoyed science, I’ve never been much of an expert. Science fiction, to me, is a more technological version of high fantasy. But why not challenge myself, right?
Instead of getting down about what I didn’t know, I decided to focus on the science that was accessible to me -- the science I could see with my own eyes, or that was in the news enough that I could at least have a starting point. I wrote down a few ideas:
I took these ideas and started to play around with them in my head. I thought about how science is constantly advancing -- about how far we’ve come just in the 29 years I’ve been alive. So what would happen if I take that, and add 500 years?
Futuristic and speculative science fiction is nothing new, of course. It’s fun to theorize about what our world will be like for centuries or millennia to come. For me, though, I always liked making up my own systems and rules, almost as if I was using science as an alternative type of magic. But in this case I decided to constrain myself to scientific disciplines I can clearly identify. I want to create a world where science has progressed well beyond where it is today, but still does not blatantly violate laws of physics (like, say, faster-than-light space travel).
So that’s the long and short of it. In future updates, I will reveal more about this world as well as the story itself.
The first chapter of The Underneath is on its way. I’m extremely excited for readers to meet Freya and become invested in her story.