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Lookinjg for ARC reviewers for alternate world SF novel
“O wad some Power the giftie gie us/Ta see ourselves as others see us!”-- Robert Burns
When Ariana Hipplefluff got caught in the danger zone of a physics experiment gone wrong, she was whisked away from the stately campus of Lacey Swanson Women's College and landed on Collar World. The inhabitants called it “Earth” but Ariana thought of it as Collar World because almost all the women in it wore metal collars around their necks, with their names and the names of their owners on them. And they didn't wear a hell of a lot else.
Ariana, a gender studies grad student, was not enamored of Collar World, in the sense that she hated it. There was all the bondage. All the public nudity. All the public sex! It was so wrong, and she, who had documented three different kinds of nanoaggression in her most recent paper published in the Journal of Gender Hurtfulness, was fully attuned to every bit of wrongness.
But even worse than that, the people on Collar World thought they were sane and normal and that SHE was the crazy one. They thought she was strange and prone to violence. They put a shock collar on her in case she attacked anyone. Then they used it on her when she attacked someone! But she had done it for the best of reasons! It was heroic!
What kind of weird world had she fallen into? And why did the Collar World people get so scared when she told them about Earth?
And what will happen if they discover a way to replicate that physics experiment and open up crosstime gates between Ariana's world and Collar World?
I'm looking for ARC readers for this novel. It's a sociological science fiction comedy. It's Philip Jose Farmer by way of Charles Stross with a piquant tinge of John Scalzi.
“Visitor” deals with a contemporary issues and takes full advantage of the potential that SF alternate world storylines create. It had kinky elements, obviously, but it's not erotica -- there are no graphic depictions of sex acts intended to arouse. My primary intent is to amuse and entertain in a thought-provoking way. If you'd like to try something beside the usual military SF or grim dystopian storylines, why don't you give "Visitor" a shot? I've made every effort to make you glad you did.
It's available in EPUB and MOBI formats, just send me an IM with an email address and I'll send it ot you. All I ask in return is an honest review.
When Ariana Hipplefluff got caught in the danger zone of a physics experiment gone wrong, she was whisked away from the stately campus of Lacey Swanson Women's College and landed on Collar World. The inhabitants called it “Earth” but Ariana thought of it as Collar World because almost all the women in it wore metal collars around their necks, with their names and the names of their owners on them. And they didn't wear a hell of a lot else.
Ariana, a gender studies grad student, was not enamored of Collar World, in the sense that she hated it. There was all the bondage. All the public nudity. All the public sex! It was so wrong, and she, who had documented three different kinds of nanoaggression in her most recent paper published in the Journal of Gender Hurtfulness, was fully attuned to every bit of wrongness.
But even worse than that, the people on Collar World thought they were sane and normal and that SHE was the crazy one. They thought she was strange and prone to violence. They put a shock collar on her in case she attacked anyone. Then they used it on her when she attacked someone! But she had done it for the best of reasons! It was heroic!
What kind of weird world had she fallen into? And why did the Collar World people get so scared when she told them about Earth?
And what will happen if they discover a way to replicate that physics experiment and open up crosstime gates between Ariana's world and Collar World?
I'm looking for ARC readers for this novel. It's a sociological science fiction comedy. It's Philip Jose Farmer by way of Charles Stross with a piquant tinge of John Scalzi.
“Visitor” deals with a contemporary issues and takes full advantage of the potential that SF alternate world storylines create. It had kinky elements, obviously, but it's not erotica -- there are no graphic depictions of sex acts intended to arouse. My primary intent is to amuse and entertain in a thought-provoking way. If you'd like to try something beside the usual military SF or grim dystopian storylines, why don't you give "Visitor" a shot? I've made every effort to make you glad you did.
It's available in EPUB and MOBI formats, just send me an IM with an email address and I'll send it ot you. All I ask in return is an honest review.
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