I've finished my first novel - The Horizon Venture - and I want to share it with you; positive critical feedback is welcomed! I'm going to publish a chapter every fortnight, up to chapter 5, and if the response is good, I'll publish more. First chapter goes up tomorrow.
Just so you know a little of what you're letting yourself in for, the synopsis is below:
The Horizon Venture - Synopsis
2056: the Colonial Wars have ended and, a fragile detente between humans and locals on the planet
Horizon -3 is in place. But the Xienom, a powerful and highly advanced indigenous majority, are still
angry at “the Terran maggot’s cancerous irruption” into the wider galaxy – and their own civilisation, and
are frustrated with the Interplanetary Federation’s inaction in bringing humanoid behaviour into line with
the rest of the planet, which they regard as humanoid favouritism.
In a seemingly unrelated incident one such humanoid, named Teacher, escapes from the private army
he’d been conscripted into at birth by Kane, a ruthless intergalactic industrialist whose company
KANECORP locates and prepares hostile alien environments for Earth’s future expansion using clone
supersoldiers.
Somewhere in Teacher’s memory is highly sensitive information which could reveal the truth of Kane’s
clandestine operations to the Interplanetary Federation. This would most likely see calls for humans to
be deported from the Horizon Galaxy, or incarcerated with immediate effect. Kane despatches some of
his best trained clones to “contain the situation”. But Teacher, armed with free improvised thought, is
more than a match for them; he leaves a trail of bodies in his wake, and draws the attention of local
news broadcasters and law enforcement agencies in the process.
Now desperate for asylum, but unsure of who he can trust, Teacher decides that the enemy of his
enemy is his friend - in this case Kane’s brother Ken, another industrialist, who has made it his personal
responsibility to curtail Kane’s interplanetary “ventures”. He knows that Ken will be able to make sense
of the information, and perhaps shed a little light on exactly who Teacher – code name Black Knight -
really is, and what Black Knight has done to the Xienom in the name of Earth.
Teacher begins transmitting highly sensitive information to Ken, but Kane intercepts, and blows Teacher
up, causing a major international incident in the process. Kane knows that Ken, his nemesis, will be
saddled with rescuing the fragile peace process on Horizon -3, giving Kane plenty of time to cover his
tracks, and make good his escape.
But Teacher survives the explosion; he is no ordinary clone soldier. And it turns out he’s only half clone;
the other half is Belusian, - a race that looks human, but are actually refugees from another galaxy.
That Belusian heritage also gave Teacher a twin sister, Lotti, who left Earth ten years ago to find him.
Freed of Kane’s influence, Lotti can now repair the telepathic link common to Belusian twins, and restore
his sense of who he really is. Through this Teacher learns that it is the planet Bluese – not Kane’s
genetic engineering- that has given him the power to reject Kane’s mind control, and to survive the
explosion, and numerous other encounters in his twenty years in Kane’s covert operations forces.
Armed with this knowledge, the twins join forces with Ken, and his private army THE MEN, who must
now do their best to stop a full scale war with the Xienom, who regard Kane’s explosion as a direct
terrorist threat by insurgents. The Xienom have abandoned diplomacy and now move to eradicate all
humans from their land.
The Interplanetary Federation look on, helpless and noncommittal, as Teacher and Lotti find themselves
holding the key memories and abilities that can a diffuse the crisis. Alone together, they will determine
the rights and reputations of humans in the Horizon Galaxy for many light years to come…
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imaginary, and any similarities between people and events outside of this work are coincidental.
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