Announcing THE WEBS OF VAROK, sequel to A Place Beyond Man to be launched December 4
Here's a hint at what the series is all about:
If you like Out of a Silent Planet, The Hobbit, Dragon Riders of Pern, A place Beyond Man or Oz, you'll love THE ARCHIVES OF VAROK.
LAUNCHING THE SECOND IN THE SERIES--THE WEBS OF VAROK
Set in an alternate 21st century
--where realistic solutions offer a promising future
--where human assumptions are challenged by aliens too close and too similar to ignore
--where Earth's species, driven by sexuality, are trumped by alien drives even stronger.
Two related websites have just gone online. Check out the series website at ArchivesofVarok.com and read the Prologue and Chapter 1 premiering there. Penscript-Publishing.com is offering ten free copies of A Place Beyond Man to those writing reviews there. Here is the link http://ow.ly/eLAGL I'm putting two more excerpts on My Writing, and will be doing a giveaway here on Goodreads of A Place Beyond Man so you can read the prequel to WEBS before it comes out. Enjoy!
If you like Out of a Silent Planet, The Hobbit, Dragon Riders of Pern, A place Beyond Man or Oz, you'll love THE ARCHIVES OF VAROK.
LAUNCHING THE SECOND IN THE SERIES--THE WEBS OF VAROK
Set in an alternate 21st century
--where realistic solutions offer a promising future
--where human assumptions are challenged by aliens too close and too similar to ignore
--where Earth's species, driven by sexuality, are trumped by alien drives even stronger.
Two related websites have just gone online. Check out the series website at ArchivesofVarok.com and read the Prologue and Chapter 1 premiering there. Penscript-Publishing.com is offering ten free copies of A Place Beyond Man to those writing reviews there. Here is the link http://ow.ly/eLAGL I'm putting two more excerpts on My Writing, and will be doing a giveaway here on Goodreads of A Place Beyond Man so you can read the prequel to WEBS before it comes out. Enjoy!
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Apologies--for the A Place Beyond Man giveaways, please go to my website http://caryneeper.com and send me a message, cary@caryneeper.com. I'll do the drawing. I didn't realize they were limited here to new releases. Check for a WEBS giveaway on the site listed above.
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Here's a short synopsis of THE WEBS OF VAROK:TANDRA GREY has made her choice. She crossed millions of miles of empty space to live with her adopted family on Varok, with its promise of stability for her young daughter. But like any garden, this world depends on its caretakers, and someone is sowing bad seeds. Tandra, the elll Conn, and the varok Orram must trust each other’s alien talents to restore balance for Varok and their fragile new family.
The family leaves the aliens' observation base on Earth’s moon, believing they can no longer influence the fate of life on Earth. ORRAM, a humanoid varok who experiences life through mindful awareness, and CONN, a life-loving elll--a marine, schooling amphibioid who experiences life through many senses--hope that Varok's steady-state can serve as a model for Earth
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MAHNTIK, with her mutants' talent for lying, cheats the steady-state of local economies by creating a planet-wide market with cheap web products and addictive web berries. She ignores resource quotas, limits on the use of non-sustainable energy, and her obligations to care for the land she occupies.
Mahntik kidnaps Conn to keep him quiet about the murder of a great-fish accusing her of treason. Her allies--flocks of square-faced insectoids called AHLORK--defect when Mahntik becomes more savage in her quest for power. She has convinced idealistic young varoks that their planet must defend itself against an imminent raid from Earth. The more belligerent ahlork decide to steal dangerous cultures from Mahntik's genetics lab. The ahlork, NIDOK, horrified by Conn's kidnapping and torture by desiccation, sets the elll free and leads the ahlork into civil war.
During the ahlork melees, Tandra, Conn and Orram--apparently in dangerous opposition--confront Mahntik. In the end . . .The Webs of Varok
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