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R2R: KISMET (character-driven space adventure w/genetic engineering)
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I'm still offering this for review! At least at the moment I'm writing this, Kismet is in the top 1000 books in the "space opera" category of the Kindle Store and top 500 for "genetic engineering" science fiction, which seems like it's pretty good for something that hasn't been released yet. Give it a shot!
If you are still looking for an R2Rr I'll commit.
Sure! Send me a private message here, or email me at layotl [at] gmail.com, with the format you'd like (ePub, Mobi/Kindle or PDF) and I'll get it to you. (If you email let me know who you are so I'm not confused!)
The River: a hodgepodge of arcologies and platforms in a band around Ceres full of dreamers, utopians, corporatists—and transformed humans, from those with simple biomods to the exotic alien xenos and the totemics, remade with animal aspects. Gail Simmons, an itinerant salvor living aboard her ship Kismet has docked everywhere totemics like her are welcome...and a few places they're not.
But when she's accused of stealing a databox from a mysterious wreck, Gail lands in the crosshairs of corporations, governments and anti-totemic terrorists. Finding the real thieves is the easy part. To get her life back, Gail will have to confront a past she's desperate not to face—and what's at stake may be more than just her future.
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Kismet will be published on January 24th by Argyll Productions. I'll give away up to 10 ebooks to interested reviewers—leave a comment below or send me a private message here. I'm looking for reviews here on Goodreads and, if possible, for posting on Amazon during the last week of January.
While I don't have review snippets to post yet, it's gotten great advance notice so far from folks including Lawrence M. Schoen, whose space adventure Barsk was nominated for a Nebula. Kismet is a character-driven piece with a strong female lead. It should appeal to fans of books like Jennifer Foehner Wells' Fluency and some of Kim Stanley Robinson's work. While it touches on deeper themes, it's also, so I've been told, a pretty fun read.