FA+
Shop
Respawn
5 years ago
I self-published Respawn earlier this month! Check it out:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KRZ4TCM
Respawn is a story told in three parts:
No one dies for good in the System but, the more Ghost and Orchid look into the murder of an Arbitrator named Kacey, the more the two investigators suspect this may be about to change. Arbitrators are notoriously hard to kill and, if one of them can be taken down for good, no one is safe. In time, their investigation ends up taking them down a road that leads them to question everything they've been taught to believe.
Jackie always resented living in the System and, after what some of what she's been through, who could blame her? After spending so much time and energy looking for a way to escape from it, it's no wonder she's crushed when her hopes are dashed. But her tampering didn't go unnoticed, she gets more than she bargained for, and she'll have to spend a long time unpacking the can of worms she's opened.
Growing up trans, ace, and struggling with a wide variety of mental disorders, Fran often felt like Earth was a place where she'd never truly belong, and looked up at the stars. After a freak accident actually drags her from Earth to the System herself, it looks like she's going to get a chance to see if she could belong somewhere else after all. As she strives to make a place for herself in the System with Jackie's help, glimpses of her life back on Earth put things in perspective for us.
Respawn is a story about doing your best in a world built for someone else that expects perfection from you. It's a story about questioning all of our underlying assumptions about what's necessary for a society to work. It's about how one person's trash is another person's treasure, and about choosing to live in a world that wants you dead.
I hope that, by the end of it, you'll see some measure of beauty in my little realm up among the stars, warts and all. The question science-fiction always *seems* to ask is "Are we alone?" But the question science-fiction *really* asks is, "Am *I* alone...?"
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KRZ4TCM
Respawn is a story told in three parts:
No one dies for good in the System but, the more Ghost and Orchid look into the murder of an Arbitrator named Kacey, the more the two investigators suspect this may be about to change. Arbitrators are notoriously hard to kill and, if one of them can be taken down for good, no one is safe. In time, their investigation ends up taking them down a road that leads them to question everything they've been taught to believe.
Jackie always resented living in the System and, after what some of what she's been through, who could blame her? After spending so much time and energy looking for a way to escape from it, it's no wonder she's crushed when her hopes are dashed. But her tampering didn't go unnoticed, she gets more than she bargained for, and she'll have to spend a long time unpacking the can of worms she's opened.
Growing up trans, ace, and struggling with a wide variety of mental disorders, Fran often felt like Earth was a place where she'd never truly belong, and looked up at the stars. After a freak accident actually drags her from Earth to the System herself, it looks like she's going to get a chance to see if she could belong somewhere else after all. As she strives to make a place for herself in the System with Jackie's help, glimpses of her life back on Earth put things in perspective for us.
Respawn is a story about doing your best in a world built for someone else that expects perfection from you. It's a story about questioning all of our underlying assumptions about what's necessary for a society to work. It's about how one person's trash is another person's treasure, and about choosing to live in a world that wants you dead.
I hope that, by the end of it, you'll see some measure of beauty in my little realm up among the stars, warts and all. The question science-fiction always *seems* to ask is "Are we alone?" But the question science-fiction *really* asks is, "Am *I* alone...?"
