Before the Fall: A Prequel to The Chaos Series
I wanted to enter Amazon's storyteller contest, but I needed a new book to qualify. Not only that, I only had a few weeks in which to write one. As a result, I ended up writing a short (25,000 word) prequel to my other seven novels that fills in some previously unknown details.
This was a challenging book to write since it had to fit into the storylines of my previous works. Many of the characters had already been described, so the plot had to incorporate them somehow. Out of this evolved the character of Herreld Vale, a polymath equivalent to Leonardo da Vinci, but one that lived for 575 years. Imagine what Leo could have accomplished if he had lived that long, as he would still be alive today. In the past 500 years, we've gone from learning that the Earth is round to preparing to colonize Mars. And what if Leo wasn't entirely altruistic, but a ruthless psychopath bent on world domination?
The story is also a prelude as to what might eventually happen on Earth if we don't get our population growth under control. Set in a parallel galaxy on the other side of the Universe, the story of Shoomar four million years ago was easy to write since I only had to look around the world today.
I don't expect to actually win anything in the contest, but it was a nice incentive to publish another work. I expect to follow it someday with another prequel titled After the Fall.
Available on Amazon
This was a challenging book to write since it had to fit into the storylines of my previous works. Many of the characters had already been described, so the plot had to incorporate them somehow. Out of this evolved the character of Herreld Vale, a polymath equivalent to Leonardo da Vinci, but one that lived for 575 years. Imagine what Leo could have accomplished if he had lived that long, as he would still be alive today. In the past 500 years, we've gone from learning that the Earth is round to preparing to colonize Mars. And what if Leo wasn't entirely altruistic, but a ruthless psychopath bent on world domination?
The story is also a prelude as to what might eventually happen on Earth if we don't get our population growth under control. Set in a parallel galaxy on the other side of the Universe, the story of Shoomar four million years ago was easy to write since I only had to look around the world today.
I don't expect to actually win anything in the contest, but it was a nice incentive to publish another work. I expect to follow it someday with another prequel titled After the Fall.
Available on Amazon
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