There will come a time when
people who do not live on Earth can truly compete with people who do. This is a
story within that moment.
Sweet Sol System is an immersive world-building adventure. A deep landscape for the reader to hike upon. Set soon enough that one can just imagine how they got there from where you are... Albeit in hindsight.
- Meet the innocently-spoiled Alexander Porco and his follower Charity Google. The libertarian world they live in may seem idyllic, but satiated does not mean satisfied. The reader may see clues to get from here to there, but then where will you be?
- Witness the precision of Isaac, the immaculate cyborg and his detachment. And what is a cyborg? The question's been asked before, and freshly we go again. But this is not an Asimovian Isaac.
- Enter Juliette. See how alien genetic-engineers can make themselves given a pittance of centuries. See now how humanism, identity, and raw motherhood are taken to a new level when all life is an intellectuals plaything.
- Follow Adela Jaff. A refugee filled with ambition and blessed with luck. She will go where no Terran has gone before, come over hell, or deep frozen water.
- Make friends with Tyson and Rosalie Clifford. Buddies for life. Married forever. Blobfish people, most comfortable living deep under the ice of Jupiter's moons.
The many protagonists suffer new stresses and new joys. Relatable yet alien situations arise from living in worlds, such as Venus and Ganymede, that have rules quite different from Earth. Meanwhile implicitly, the protagonists are dismantling dated Voyager era tropes that are no longer consistent with real world science.
"Sweet" passes through topics like neuro-atypical minds in war-clones. Sexuality in a world consumed with genetic engineering. Pressures at great depths in the crust of ice-worlds and the effects those have on biology. Then a lighter topic. Immortality; what it never was, and may one day be. It’s an implicit exploration of modern probes, InSight, JUNO, MAVEN, Cassini, New Horizons and more, because it revolves around the worlds that modern planetary science is exploring now.
Do you know about Phosphine, Glycine, and "unusual UV absorption" on Venus? Are you dying for 2028 & the VERITAS mission? If I write "October 2024," do you already have the Europa clipper launch circled? Do you know what a blobfish is?
If yes than this book is certainly for you. If not so much, then all you need to ask yourself is, "am I the kind of person who wants to make the world a better place?" This book is written with hope to inspire some plausibilities for each reader.
"Sweet" has been written for two years now, but I am "studying" the traditional publishing route. So far the experiment has been inconclusive, and I am preparing to self-publish. The end result is that the book will be self-published May 2023, or else I'll announce the successful publisher here.
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime expect background content including short stories, notes, and more to appear in this blog from time to time.