Perax Frontier rewrite.

Following some review comments, I decided to take the advice I've often offered other writers. Get rid of the info-dumps! As Perax Frontier is such an unusual setting this wasn't as easy to achieve were it a familiar setting. My solution was to extract the detail from the narrative and include it as excerpts from a VISITOR'S GUIDE, which I stuck at the chapter heads, and at convenient narrative breaks. I'll be interested to hear how readers respond to this approach.

Another addition to the text is advertising cards from the various businesses dotted through the novel. Just a bit of fun, but they help to reinforce the theme of the book.

Another task I 'rebelled' against was the use of present tense for descriptive narrative by the First Person POV character. Though this has been used by many writers, including Heinlein and Vonnegut, it seemed to annoy a few readers. So on the grounds of keeping as many people happy as possible that's all gone now!

One last comment was the cover art. I've changed it completely, and I'll be interested to hear how readers respond to it.

Finally a little background on the story's origins: "Perax Frontier" started as an idea about eight years ago, when I was on a family holiday on Lismore Island off the coast of Scotland. Our hosts 'Davie and Gill' let us set up tent in their garden, along with some others. During a long coastal walk, I discussed the idea of the Interface with Davie. Because of his interests, he saw it as the gate to Valhalla, but I saw it as just how it is in the novel. Regardless of our differing opinions, it was great to bounce around some ideas about surviving in a world without electricity. In many ways Lismore and much of the West Coast of Scotland was an example of how societies manage without electricity. Power cuts were not too frequent, but they did happen often enough for folks to be 'ready' to cope. From cooking to lighting, entertainment to transport, and the sense of community that existed on the island, it was a loose 'blueprint' of how a community gets by in these circumstances.