[bksvol-discuss] Submitted Science Fiction Novel
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 12:22:11 -0400
Hello Folks,
I just put up Count to a Trillion by John C. Wright for anyone to proofread.
I've read it through completely, spell checked it, removed all headers, and
made sure all the pages were numbered.
[from inside flaps]
Hundreds of years in the future, after the collapse of the Western world, young
Menelaus Illation Montrose grows up in what was once Texas as a gunslinging
duelist for hire. But Montrose is also a mathematical genius--and a romantic
who dreams of a future in which humanity rises from the ashes to take its place
among the stars.
The chance to help usher in that future comes when Montrose is recruited for a
manned interstellar mission to investigate an artifact of alien origin. Known
as the Monument, the artifact is inscribed with data so complex, only a
posthuman mind could decipher it. So Montrose does the unthinkable: he injects
himself with a dangerous biochemical drug designed to boost his already
formidable intellect to superhuman intelligence. It drives him mad.
Nearly two centuries later, his sanity restored, Montrose is awakened from
cryosuspension with no memory of his posthuman actions. He finds Earth
transformed in strange and disturbing ways, and learns that the Monument still
carries a secret he must decode--one that will define humanity's true future in
the universe.
This is the first of a series of which only two have been published so far. The
second book titled The Hermetic Millennia is a direct sequel to Count to a
Trillion, even to the extent that the Table of Contents for the second book
begins with Part Two. Whoever takes the second book without reading the first
would be quite lost I'm afraid. I've read through it, so I just have the font
adjustment and spell check to do. I hope to have it up by tomorrow at the
latest. The spell checks on these are rather long.
I generally scan for other people,, so I am not practiced at writing short
synopses, so if whoever proofreads this feels they can write a better one than
what I've put in, feel free to make any changes.
Evan
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