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January 9, 2019
In 100 Years Who’s Gonna Care?
In the 1984 movie, Terminator, Sarah Connor is having a particularly tough day as a waitress at a diner in her home town. The child of a disgruntled customer, much to her dismay and surprise, puts a scoop of chocolate ice cream in the pocket of her waitress uniform. A gum-chewing fellow waitress comes over to her and says, “Look at it this way. In 100 years who’s gonna care?”
This month 100 years ago a young man of 18 returned home to his parents’ house in Oak Park, Illinois. He came from the front lines of World War I. He was recovering from shrapnel wounds to his legs, and for the first time in his life, he was very much in love. He’d fallen in love with an Italian nurse that attended to him during his post-surgery recovery. He was expecting her to join him in a couple of months, and they were to be married. Instead he received a letter, telling him she was engaged to be married to an Italian officer. He was heartbroken. That young man was Ernest Hemingway. As he sat reading that letter he didn’t know it would be 7 years until he published his debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, 11 years before he moved from Paris, France, with his second wife (leaving behind his first wife and son) to Key West, Florida. His second wife, being from a wealthy family. Her Uncle bought them a house in Key West for $8000. That is $117,000 in today’s currency. The Great Depression was underway, which makes the gift that much more astonishing.
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Key West for 5 sun-filled days. Of course, visiting Hemingway’s museum, the house he lived in, was high on my list. Before I knew it, there I was standing in the upstairs room of the carriage house that was Hemingway’s writing room. When he lived there, the only access to this room was an elevated walkway from the master bedroom. Hemingway was in the prime of his life. From this room, with nothing but a high school diploma, at 500 to 700 words a day, he changed the literary world. The room sat quiet, even with the modern day bustle on the streets. The room felt isolated. As those who have gone through the novel writing process know, this can be a good and bad thing. The isolation of this room and of Key West in general drove Hemingway on many excursions in the 1930’s. I could see him there; the house was preserved to reflect, as close as possible, the way it was then.
However, little else about Key West felt or looked the same. The downtown streets were full of tourists—walking, biking, on motor scooters and in cars. In the bars Hemingway went to, I searched for the same atmosphere. Instead each one was noisy, crowded and had a guy playing cover band music on his guitar. In the marina I saw a building where Jimmy Buffett records his music. I saw the huge yacht that is rumored to belong to Beyoncé. I saw two women sitting near the stern of a yacht enjoying the sun and the 80 degree temperature and an afternoon snack. The yacht was from Delaware. Snowbirds of the upper crust kind. At every opportunity Key West promotes Hemingway’s name. But Key West, along with the rest of the world, has left the world he knew behind. We are all keeping up with the Kardashians now. On the main street, near the marina, at the stroke of midnight, they dropped a wench—not a real wench, just a woman dressed up as one. On the other end of the jam-packed street, in a huge high heel shoe, covered in glitter, they dropped a drag queen—a real drag queen. I always choose something real over something fake. Where else are you going to get to see such a spectacle? I’m pretty sure, as he stumbled his way home from the bar at night, Hemingway could never have imagined this Key West. The world has changed. And it has not changed.
Before I left the Hemingway house, I bought a book in the shop, it is the only novel published in the years he lived in Key West. The story is even set in Key West—To Have And Have Not, published in 1937. “Ah, the perfect read for my stay”, I thought. In 1937 my father was 7 years old. Now his brain is battered by Alzheimer’s disease. He knows he knows me, but he isn’t sure how. For some reason he is sure he doesn’t like me very much. In 1937 Amelia Earhart attempted to fly around the world, never to be seen again. I would get some of the old Key West I was looking for one way or the other.
In the story in my freshly bought book, the protagonist, Harry Morgan, is a fishing guide forced into a situation that causes him to transport a variety of illegal cargo from Key West to Cuba. It cost him the lower part of an arm in a shootout. Then later, as he helps bank robbers escape to Cuba, it cost him his life. As Harry’s boat is towed back, with poor Harry near death aboard, it passes yachts moored in the marina. The wealthy are onboard dealing with their own set of issues, which seem trivial compared to the suffering life Harry has dealt with. Harry’s death is devastating to his wife and children but otherwise, life in Key West continues on undisturbed.
It was a very interesting story to come from Hemingway, who was a rising star at the time but not uber-rich by any measure. It was his wife that had the money and elevated his standard of living. He had a unique view into the way the uber-rich lived, via his wife’s family. But Hemingway spent his evenings in the local bars, in a town that, at its core, was a fishing village. Few things bond like drinking friends, and his were the common people of Key West. The Great Depression bit hard. The rich stayed above the fray. He lived in both worlds.
Four days after my book purchase I sat on a metal chair outside the strip of shops on the edge of the marina. Like many other tourists, I’d rode there on a rented bike from my rented room. My wife browsed inside a shop, not really intending to buy anything. I watched the upper crust snowbirds snacking away. My time in Key West was almost over. It was fun, overall, but I already knew I wouldn’t be coming back. I expected too much from Key West. Slap the ‘hopeless romantic’ label on me and send me on my way down the crowded streets of Key West. “Maybe I can find the Hemingway atmosphere in the next place his life took him”, I thought. After ten years he left his second wife and two sons behind in Key West, and with his third wife moved 90 miles south to Cuba. As long as I have the hopeless romantic label I might as well get all I can from it.
Today, 100 years since that 18-year-old returned wounded and in love, the world, as different as it is, still cares about Hemingway. There’s a brisk business at the Hemingway museum. The line to get in stretched to the end of the block. The shop’s cash register worked steadily. Of course, he’s not as popular as he once was but he’s still hanging in there. High school students still read his novels. To Have And Have Not still resonates. I doubt that will be said about the Kardashians in 100 years.
This month 100 years ago a young man of 18 returned home to his parents’ house in Oak Park, Illinois. He came from the front lines of World War I. He was recovering from shrapnel wounds to his legs, and for the first time in his life, he was very much in love. He’d fallen in love with an Italian nurse that attended to him during his post-surgery recovery. He was expecting her to join him in a couple of months, and they were to be married. Instead he received a letter, telling him she was engaged to be married to an Italian officer. He was heartbroken. That young man was Ernest Hemingway. As he sat reading that letter he didn’t know it would be 7 years until he published his debut novel, The Sun Also Rises, 11 years before he moved from Paris, France, with his second wife (leaving behind his first wife and son) to Key West, Florida. His second wife, being from a wealthy family. Her Uncle bought them a house in Key West for $8000. That is $117,000 in today’s currency. The Great Depression was underway, which makes the gift that much more astonishing.
I recently had the pleasure of visiting Key West for 5 sun-filled days. Of course, visiting Hemingway’s museum, the house he lived in, was high on my list. Before I knew it, there I was standing in the upstairs room of the carriage house that was Hemingway’s writing room. When he lived there, the only access to this room was an elevated walkway from the master bedroom. Hemingway was in the prime of his life. From this room, with nothing but a high school diploma, at 500 to 700 words a day, he changed the literary world. The room sat quiet, even with the modern day bustle on the streets. The room felt isolated. As those who have gone through the novel writing process know, this can be a good and bad thing. The isolation of this room and of Key West in general drove Hemingway on many excursions in the 1930’s. I could see him there; the house was preserved to reflect, as close as possible, the way it was then.
However, little else about Key West felt or looked the same. The downtown streets were full of tourists—walking, biking, on motor scooters and in cars. In the bars Hemingway went to, I searched for the same atmosphere. Instead each one was noisy, crowded and had a guy playing cover band music on his guitar. In the marina I saw a building where Jimmy Buffett records his music. I saw the huge yacht that is rumored to belong to Beyoncé. I saw two women sitting near the stern of a yacht enjoying the sun and the 80 degree temperature and an afternoon snack. The yacht was from Delaware. Snowbirds of the upper crust kind. At every opportunity Key West promotes Hemingway’s name. But Key West, along with the rest of the world, has left the world he knew behind. We are all keeping up with the Kardashians now. On the main street, near the marina, at the stroke of midnight, they dropped a wench—not a real wench, just a woman dressed up as one. On the other end of the jam-packed street, in a huge high heel shoe, covered in glitter, they dropped a drag queen—a real drag queen. I always choose something real over something fake. Where else are you going to get to see such a spectacle? I’m pretty sure, as he stumbled his way home from the bar at night, Hemingway could never have imagined this Key West. The world has changed. And it has not changed.
Before I left the Hemingway house, I bought a book in the shop, it is the only novel published in the years he lived in Key West. The story is even set in Key West—To Have And Have Not, published in 1937. “Ah, the perfect read for my stay”, I thought. In 1937 my father was 7 years old. Now his brain is battered by Alzheimer’s disease. He knows he knows me, but he isn’t sure how. For some reason he is sure he doesn’t like me very much. In 1937 Amelia Earhart attempted to fly around the world, never to be seen again. I would get some of the old Key West I was looking for one way or the other.
In the story in my freshly bought book, the protagonist, Harry Morgan, is a fishing guide forced into a situation that causes him to transport a variety of illegal cargo from Key West to Cuba. It cost him the lower part of an arm in a shootout. Then later, as he helps bank robbers escape to Cuba, it cost him his life. As Harry’s boat is towed back, with poor Harry near death aboard, it passes yachts moored in the marina. The wealthy are onboard dealing with their own set of issues, which seem trivial compared to the suffering life Harry has dealt with. Harry’s death is devastating to his wife and children but otherwise, life in Key West continues on undisturbed.
It was a very interesting story to come from Hemingway, who was a rising star at the time but not uber-rich by any measure. It was his wife that had the money and elevated his standard of living. He had a unique view into the way the uber-rich lived, via his wife’s family. But Hemingway spent his evenings in the local bars, in a town that, at its core, was a fishing village. Few things bond like drinking friends, and his were the common people of Key West. The Great Depression bit hard. The rich stayed above the fray. He lived in both worlds.
Four days after my book purchase I sat on a metal chair outside the strip of shops on the edge of the marina. Like many other tourists, I’d rode there on a rented bike from my rented room. My wife browsed inside a shop, not really intending to buy anything. I watched the upper crust snowbirds snacking away. My time in Key West was almost over. It was fun, overall, but I already knew I wouldn’t be coming back. I expected too much from Key West. Slap the ‘hopeless romantic’ label on me and send me on my way down the crowded streets of Key West. “Maybe I can find the Hemingway atmosphere in the next place his life took him”, I thought. After ten years he left his second wife and two sons behind in Key West, and with his third wife moved 90 miles south to Cuba. As long as I have the hopeless romantic label I might as well get all I can from it.
Today, 100 years since that 18-year-old returned wounded and in love, the world, as different as it is, still cares about Hemingway. There’s a brisk business at the Hemingway museum. The line to get in stretched to the end of the block. The shop’s cash register worked steadily. Of course, he’s not as popular as he once was but he’s still hanging in there. High school students still read his novels. To Have And Have Not still resonates. I doubt that will be said about the Kardashians in 100 years.
The Apotheosis Giveaway
Congratulations to Julia D. the winner of The Gravitational Leap Quote Contest. She won a $50 Barnes & Noble gift card!
Starting yesterday you can enter to win 1 of 30 signed, Advanced Readers Copy of my next novel The Apotheosis. The giveaway will end at the beginning of February. You can find a link to the giveaway on my website. Good luck to everyone!
Starting yesterday you can enter to win 1 of 30 signed, Advanced Readers Copy of my next novel The Apotheosis. The giveaway will end at the beginning of February. You can find a link to the giveaway on my website. Good luck to everyone!
December 26, 2018
Giveaway Winners!
Congratulations to the 5 winners of a signed copy of The Gravitational Leap! Micielle C. from Wilmington, DE, Earl C. from Tiptonville, TN, Christopher L., from Turners Falls, MA, Isley F. from Graham, NC and Gina J. Wauconda, Il. The deadline for entering The Gravitational Leap Quote contest id midnight Dec. 31, 2018. You can find it on my website www.authordarrelllee.com
2018 is coming to an end. It was a very good year. I am very much looking forward to 2019 and the release of my next novel, The Apotheosis. I have a stack of ARCs sitting in my office. Their specific purpose is to get them directly into the hands of readers, I can think of no better way than a Goodreads giveaway. Keep your eyes on your inbox after the New Year has arrived for an announcement.
Happy New Year’s Everyone!
Darrell Lee
2018 is coming to an end. It was a very good year. I am very much looking forward to 2019 and the release of my next novel, The Apotheosis. I have a stack of ARCs sitting in my office. Their specific purpose is to get them directly into the hands of readers, I can think of no better way than a Goodreads giveaway. Keep your eyes on your inbox after the New Year has arrived for an announcement.
Happy New Year’s Everyone!
Darrell Lee
December 15, 2018
The Last Giveaway of 2018!
There are only 7 days left in the giveaway, the last one of 2018!
Visit my website for a link to enter for a chance to win one of 5 signed copies of my debut novel, The Gravitational Leap, that was a finalist for the 2018 Chanticleer Cygnus International Book Award. The giveaway ends Dec. 21, 2018. This should give you enough time to find your favorite quote from the book and enter the TGL Quote Contest for a chance to win a $50 gift card for Barnes & Noble. Click here for the gift card contest.
“The ending sends all pre-conceived notions out the window.” ☆☆☆☆☆
“Simply put, The Gravitational Leap is a fascinating story that seamlessly interweaves real-world events with alternate outcomes, science fact with science fiction, and love and war.” ☆☆☆☆☆
“You never knew what was going to happen next and you were always rooting for your favorite characters, but weren’t really sure which ones those were.” ☆☆☆☆☆
“In a gripping tale that blends historical fact and scientific speculation, the hero of "The Gravitational Leap" must risk all to end the desperation of a failing civilization and spark the chance for a global reawakening.” ☆☆☆☆
The Gravitational Leap, explores the relationships between religion, science, faith, love, loss, betrayal, greed and loyalty as the clans clash for control of the ultimate power source of their world.
Visit my website for a link to enter for a chance to win one of 5 signed copies of my debut novel, The Gravitational Leap, that was a finalist for the 2018 Chanticleer Cygnus International Book Award. The giveaway ends Dec. 21, 2018. This should give you enough time to find your favorite quote from the book and enter the TGL Quote Contest for a chance to win a $50 gift card for Barnes & Noble. Click here for the gift card contest.
“The ending sends all pre-conceived notions out the window.” ☆☆☆☆☆
“Simply put, The Gravitational Leap is a fascinating story that seamlessly interweaves real-world events with alternate outcomes, science fact with science fiction, and love and war.” ☆☆☆☆☆
“You never knew what was going to happen next and you were always rooting for your favorite characters, but weren’t really sure which ones those were.” ☆☆☆☆☆
“In a gripping tale that blends historical fact and scientific speculation, the hero of "The Gravitational Leap" must risk all to end the desperation of a failing civilization and spark the chance for a global reawakening.” ☆☆☆☆
The Gravitational Leap, explores the relationships between religion, science, faith, love, loss, betrayal, greed and loyalty as the clans clash for control of the ultimate power source of their world.
December 10, 2018
Book Giveaway
Enter for a chance to win one of 5 signed copies of my debut novel that was a finalist for the 2018 Chanticleer Cygnus International book award.
“The ending sends all pre-conceived notions out the window.” ☆☆☆☆☆
“Simply put, The Gravitational Leap is a fascinating story that seamlessly interweaves real-world events with alternate outcomes, science fact with science fiction, and love and war.” ☆☆☆☆☆
“You never knew what was going to happen next and you were always rooting for your favorite characters, but weren’t really sure which ones those were.” ☆☆☆☆☆
“In a gripping tale that blends historical fact and scientific speculation, the hero of "The Gravitational Leap" must risk all to end the desperation of a failing civilization and spark the chance for a global reawakening.” ☆☆☆☆
The Gravitational Leap, explores the relationships between religion, science, faith, love, loss, betrayal, greed and loyalty as the clans clash for control of the ultimate power source of their world. In a frigid post-apocalyptic world, the harshest of all winters descends on the Tower clan as they prepare for war. Timo and Alyd, a husband and wife sniper team for the clan's security force, are brought together with Maldor, the mysterious elder and science director, when an enemy scout is killed. Maldor is the last in a long line of elders waiting for a chance to correct a mistake in the past. The surprise union and a supernova event that took place three-hundred-and-sixty years ago, are the only hope for mankind’s future existence.
“The ending sends all pre-conceived notions out the window.” ☆☆☆☆☆
“Simply put, The Gravitational Leap is a fascinating story that seamlessly interweaves real-world events with alternate outcomes, science fact with science fiction, and love and war.” ☆☆☆☆☆
“You never knew what was going to happen next and you were always rooting for your favorite characters, but weren’t really sure which ones those were.” ☆☆☆☆☆
“In a gripping tale that blends historical fact and scientific speculation, the hero of "The Gravitational Leap" must risk all to end the desperation of a failing civilization and spark the chance for a global reawakening.” ☆☆☆☆
The Gravitational Leap, explores the relationships between religion, science, faith, love, loss, betrayal, greed and loyalty as the clans clash for control of the ultimate power source of their world. In a frigid post-apocalyptic world, the harshest of all winters descends on the Tower clan as they prepare for war. Timo and Alyd, a husband and wife sniper team for the clan's security force, are brought together with Maldor, the mysterious elder and science director, when an enemy scout is killed. Maldor is the last in a long line of elders waiting for a chance to correct a mistake in the past. The surprise union and a supernova event that took place three-hundred-and-sixty years ago, are the only hope for mankind’s future existence.
December 4, 2018
Stephen Hawking Was Right. Will I Be?
Last week a scientist in China announced that the first genetically edited babies had been born. The aim of the experiment was to create children who are immune to HIV, but it hasn’t yet been independently reviewed or verified. It has, to say the least, caused an up roar. The Chinese government has condemned the work, saying the experiment “crossed the line of morality and ethics adhered to by the academic community and was shocking and unacceptable,” in the words of Xy Nanping, China’s vice minister of science and technology. On Thursday, the Chinese government claimed to shut down the gene-editing project and launched its own investigation. But not before another pregnancy has been announced by the same scientist.
The team in China, led by He Jiankui of Southern University of Science and Technology of China in Shenzhen, used the CRISPR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR) gene editing technique to try to disable the gene for CCR5. HIV enters and infects cells by binding to a protein on the surface called CCR5.
This is a slippery scientific slope, the effects can be very difficult to predict, both on the new born and their offspring.
In total, the experiment produced 22 embryos. To check that the CRISPR gene editing had worked, a single cell was removed from each embryo and analyzed. He says that 16 embryos had successfully been edited, 11 of which were implanted. Only one pregnancy was successfully achieved, and it produced twins.
Of these twins, one is said to have had both their copies of CCR5 disabled. That means that their body won’t make the CCR5 protein, and their cells should be able to resist infection with HIV. As usual science appears to take a benevolent path, trying to dissuade any criticism. Hoping to over shadow the powerful and dangerous technology they are experimenting with. How can anybody object to the eradication of a disease or debilitating genetic defect?
In his book Brief Answers To The Big Questions, the late Stephen Hawking had this to say.
“For the first two billion years or so the rate of increase in complexity must have been of the order of one bit of information every hundred years. The rate of increase of DNA complexity gradually rose to about on bit a year over the last few million years. But now we are beginning a new era in which we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA without having to wait for the slow process of biological evolution. There has been relatively little change in human DNA in the last 10,000 years. But it is likely that we will be able to redesign it completely in the next thousand. Of course, may people will say that genetic engineering on humans should be banned. But I rather doubt they will be able to prevent it. Genetic engineering on plants and animals will be allowed for economic reasons, and someone is bound to try it on humans. Clearly developing improved humans will create great social and political problems with respect to un-improved humans.”
Later in the same chapter titled, "Will We Survive On Earth", he said.
“This is why I don’t believe the science-fiction picture of an advanced by constant future. Instead, I expect complexity to increase at a rapid rate, in both the biological and the electronic spheres. Not much of this will happen in the next hundred years, which is all we can reliable predict. But by the end of the next millennium, if we get there, the change will be fundamental.”
We appear be on a faster pace than Mr. Hawking expected. Oh, and by the way, the scientist that conducted these experiments…has gone missing.
My next science fiction novel, The Apotheosis, to be released in May 2019, deals with a technological derivative of what He used. A much more powerful derivative. With equally powerful consequences for all involved. I look forward to sharing this story with you, especially considering the events of the past week. Watch for an announcement for a giveaway on Goodreads.com of Advanced Readers Copies.
If you had a genetic disorder flowing through your family’s DNA like Breast Cancer, Autism, Downs Syndrome or Parkinson’s disease would you want to use it on your offspring to ensure they didn’t suffer from aliments like these? I’d like to hear back from you. What do you think about the use of this technology on humans?
The team in China, led by He Jiankui of Southern University of Science and Technology of China in Shenzhen, used the CRISPR (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR) gene editing technique to try to disable the gene for CCR5. HIV enters and infects cells by binding to a protein on the surface called CCR5.
This is a slippery scientific slope, the effects can be very difficult to predict, both on the new born and their offspring.
In total, the experiment produced 22 embryos. To check that the CRISPR gene editing had worked, a single cell was removed from each embryo and analyzed. He says that 16 embryos had successfully been edited, 11 of which were implanted. Only one pregnancy was successfully achieved, and it produced twins.
Of these twins, one is said to have had both their copies of CCR5 disabled. That means that their body won’t make the CCR5 protein, and their cells should be able to resist infection with HIV. As usual science appears to take a benevolent path, trying to dissuade any criticism. Hoping to over shadow the powerful and dangerous technology they are experimenting with. How can anybody object to the eradication of a disease or debilitating genetic defect?
In his book Brief Answers To The Big Questions, the late Stephen Hawking had this to say.
“For the first two billion years or so the rate of increase in complexity must have been of the order of one bit of information every hundred years. The rate of increase of DNA complexity gradually rose to about on bit a year over the last few million years. But now we are beginning a new era in which we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA without having to wait for the slow process of biological evolution. There has been relatively little change in human DNA in the last 10,000 years. But it is likely that we will be able to redesign it completely in the next thousand. Of course, may people will say that genetic engineering on humans should be banned. But I rather doubt they will be able to prevent it. Genetic engineering on plants and animals will be allowed for economic reasons, and someone is bound to try it on humans. Clearly developing improved humans will create great social and political problems with respect to un-improved humans.”
Later in the same chapter titled, "Will We Survive On Earth", he said.
“This is why I don’t believe the science-fiction picture of an advanced by constant future. Instead, I expect complexity to increase at a rapid rate, in both the biological and the electronic spheres. Not much of this will happen in the next hundred years, which is all we can reliable predict. But by the end of the next millennium, if we get there, the change will be fundamental.”
We appear be on a faster pace than Mr. Hawking expected. Oh, and by the way, the scientist that conducted these experiments…has gone missing.
My next science fiction novel, The Apotheosis, to be released in May 2019, deals with a technological derivative of what He used. A much more powerful derivative. With equally powerful consequences for all involved. I look forward to sharing this story with you, especially considering the events of the past week. Watch for an announcement for a giveaway on Goodreads.com of Advanced Readers Copies.
If you had a genetic disorder flowing through your family’s DNA like Breast Cancer, Autism, Downs Syndrome or Parkinson’s disease would you want to use it on your offspring to ensure they didn’t suffer from aliments like these? I’d like to hear back from you. What do you think about the use of this technology on humans?
November 22, 2018
Giveaway Winners and Announcement
Happy Thanksgiving! Like many across America I am up early to begin food preparation for the feast today. I hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Congratulations to Susan A. from Harrisonburg, VA and Allison T. from Clarksville, TN for being the winners of the 2 signed copies of my debut novel from the book giveaway. Viisit my website to enter the TGL Quote Contest for a chance to win a $50 gift card for Barnes & Nobles.
The response for an ARC of my upcoming novel The Apotheosis was much larger than my publisher anticipated. Thank you for your interest in my book! If you are chosen you should get an email in the coming weeks and an ARC in the mail shortly after. An early review from Kirkus Book Reviews came in which called it an "...enthralling sci-fi romp that zeros in on bold characters." I am very excited to share this story with you. Watch for another giveaway on Goodreads but this time it will be ARCs of The Apotheosis!
Congratulations to Susan A. from Harrisonburg, VA and Allison T. from Clarksville, TN for being the winners of the 2 signed copies of my debut novel from the book giveaway. Viisit my website to enter the TGL Quote Contest for a chance to win a $50 gift card for Barnes & Nobles.
The response for an ARC of my upcoming novel The Apotheosis was much larger than my publisher anticipated. Thank you for your interest in my book! If you are chosen you should get an email in the coming weeks and an ARC in the mail shortly after. An early review from Kirkus Book Reviews came in which called it an "...enthralling sci-fi romp that zeros in on bold characters." I am very excited to share this story with you. Watch for another giveaway on Goodreads but this time it will be ARCs of The Apotheosis!
