There were a lot of those moments in the Seventies, a lot of times where we almost got something good going. I recently made a ‘joke’ on Twitter that I expect any day to see a streaming series called “Coulda Shoulda.” It’ll be a clip-show kind of thing wherein B-List celebrities and comics offer commentary on the Top 100 times over the last several decades when we could have acted to head off climate change, white nationalism, the income chasm, pandemics, and any number of similar messes. Unfortunately, the universe has other plans.īrooklyn is launched into a quest to save humanity, find his true family, and grow as a person – while simultaneously coping with high-stakes space battles, mystery science experiments and the realisation that the true enemies perhaps aren’t the tentacled monsters on the recruitment poster… Or are they? Brooklyn crosses his fingers and picks the Earth Orbital Forces, believing that after a few years in the trenches – assuming he survives – he can get his life back. So, his choices are limited – rot away in prison or sign up to defend the planet from the assholes who dropped a meteorite on Cleveland. Simple pleasures! But life is about to get real complicated when a killer with a baseball bat and a mysterious box of 8-track tapes sets him up for murder. The year is 1975 – Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven have sacrificed their lives to stop alien invaders.īrooklyn, however, just wants to keep his head down, pay his mother’s rent, earn a little scratch of his own, and maybe get laid sometime. Here’s the publisher’s description:Īlternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplenty
Green is joining us today to talk about his novel, Mercury Rising. Onboard the Hajj, Hisako soon learns her dilemmas are overshadowed by the discovery of ancient secrets, a derelict warship, and a chance at giving the survivors of Earth a fresh start.įile Under: Science Fiction R.W.W.
The arcane branch of physics it requires her to study broke off a thousand years before, and she is not keen on the idea of giving up everything she knows to marry a stranger and move onto an aging spaceship.
In exchange for an education, better housing for her family, and a boost out of poverty, she’s been contracted into an arranged marriage to Adem Sadiq, a maintenance engineer and amateur musician who works and lives aboard his family's sub-light freighter, the Hajj. Hisako Saski was born with her life already mapped out. A long-lost battleship and an arranged marriage may hold the key to faster-than-light travel and humanity’s future in R.W.W.
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