SciFi and Fantasy eBook Club discussion

I'm just about to publish my second science fiction eBook. The final book cover just came in and is looking great.

NightBird Calling marks the beginning of a new universe that I started writing in 2012 called The Posthuman Cycle. Future publications in this universe will be anything from short stories to full-blown novels.

I think of this series, and NightBird Calling in particular, as being space adventure, though the far future, galaxy-wide scope of The Posthuman Cycle also fits well into the New Space Opera genre, ala Iain M. Banks, Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter, etc.

Check out the book's info or my latest blog post for more information.

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

NightBird Calling hit the Amazon catalog this morning!

Set in a posthuman future when mankind has splintered into thousands of factions, scattered itself across the galaxy, shaped and augmented itself into endless biological, mechanical and informational forms, NightBird Calling is the first in a series of works exploring the history, cultures and societies of the posthuman diaspora: the Posthuman Cycle.

Y’Goth, privateer captain of the NightBird class cargo liner Carapace, and C-Clan runaway, is on a seemingly insane mission: to rob a deep space installation owned by the mysterious Nesters— incorporeal human minds running on bio-gaseous computers.

Steal from Nesters, the absolute pinnacle of posthuman evolution and technology? Yeah, that’s crazy. But in an unarmed ship? Hmm. Dagmar Parley is skeptical.

What Parley doesn't know, though, is that Y’Goth has his other C-Clan clone brothers to help him: Y’Gin , Y’Gorne and Y’Gari. Between them they've pulled off similar heists twice before. But their luck isn't holding: Y’Gin’s ship was damaged during their last mission and has since gone missing; Y’Gorne is in the Carapace’s med-lab, heavy with child— which, by the way, isn't supposed to be possible for a C-Clan clone. And Y’Gari? Well, he’s being his usual enigmatic self: the brains of the operation, never trusting his brothers with why they’re attacking the Nesters in the first place. And then Y’Goth went and burdened himself with this Parley fellow, the anemic, skittish man from whom he bought the coordinates needed to find their next Nester target. Brilliant.

As if all that wasn't enough, now comes news about their bio-dad, the biological progenitor of C-Clan Marqus Darsheen, from which Y’Goth and his brothers escaped twelve years ago. Bio-dad’s agents are catching up with them, and they’re not the forgiving kind.