Aphrodite's Dawn
Garret lives in a waste recycling and food processing plant. His entire world consists of six floors and 500 people. His culture says that they are alone and that there is no ‘outside’; just the rock of the walls going on forever. Garret hates his life. Everybody does exactly what they have always done. There is no growth, excitement or variety. Even the food is restricted to ration cakes and water. The environment is slowly breaking down, and everything is dirty.
Garret starts to hear a voice in his head, telling him the access code to a panel on a rerley visited and mysterious level. He tells his best friend, and they find a hidden history that every hundred years someone is chose to undertake a mission, said to be outside the known world.
Garret does not stop to think. He sees this as an opportunity to escape from an unbearable world. He follows the instructions from the voice and escapes into a dark tunnel just in time to avoid the search parties his father sent out to stop him.
Garret starts to hear a voice in his head, telling him the access code to a panel on a rerley visited and mysterious level. He tells his best friend, and they find a hidden history that every hundred years someone is chose to undertake a mission, said to be outside the known world.
Garret does not stop to think. He sees this as an opportunity to escape from an unbearable world. He follows the instructions from the voice and escapes into a dark tunnel just in time to avoid the search parties his father sent out to stop him.
About the author
I was born in Bristol (England), but these days I live just outside London, sharing my home with a couple of cats and a long-suffering wife.
I was trying to plot out a SF story, and couldn’t get it to work. A friend mentioned they thought my writing style would work as Young Adult, and the next thing I know I’m writing Aphrodite’s Dawn – and that ended up as my first ever novel, a science fiction story published earlier this year by Proxima.
Now I love writing YA. I have another book just about finished, and a third in production. There is something clean about YA, more focused on the moment, more focused on the characters. I hope to be writing it for many more years.
You can find out more about me at http://www.rbharkess.blogspot.com/ or on Facebook. Aphrodite’s Dawnis available from Proxima Books, or from Amazon as a Kindle edition.
I was trying to plot out a SF story, and couldn’t get it to work. A friend mentioned they thought my writing style would work as Young Adult, and the next thing I know I’m writing Aphrodite’s Dawn – and that ended up as my first ever novel, a science fiction story published earlier this year by Proxima.
Now I love writing YA. I have another book just about finished, and a third in production. There is something clean about YA, more focused on the moment, more focused on the characters. I hope to be writing it for many more years.
You can find out more about me at http://www.rbharkess.blogspot.com/ or on Facebook. Aphrodite’s Dawnis available from Proxima Books, or from Amazon as a Kindle edition.