Hello friends and fans!
The Quantum Series currently has 6 books in it, but as you’re probably aware, since 2016 I’ve been working on a span of three new interconnected stories in the series that follow onto books 5 and 6. I’ve kept you all informed about my progress in writing the next three books that follow in the same story-arc – and doing so more or less simultaneously – give or take a couple of breaks in between!
As you can imagine, finishing all three of them has been a gargantuan task, but I’m happy to say that this process is finally complete – with “Underground Movement“, “Xanadu” and “The Last Hurrah” – all three new books, finished and about to be released very soon!
Today I’ll be telling you about book 8 “Xanadu“.
In “Xanadu“, we pick up at where the previous book “Underground Movement” ended. The colony world Deanna is hip-deep in the Deannan Uncivil War, with the Loyalist Militia taking on the right wing fascist group and its armed wing, the Deannan Republican Army and its Space Navy who have launched a revolution to hijack the colony away from the Terran Empire in order to establish a society based on fascist principles.
People whom the new government have declared as “undesirables” have been rounded up and carted off to a concentration camp called Xanadu. The very first item on the list of the Loyalist Militia is to take Xanadu and free these prisoners, before it’s too late. Of course, it’s never just as simple or as easy as that, is it?
The Militia and the Resistance – and in particular regular characters like Gary Beck, Cindy-Mei Winter, Timaset Skooch, the Skeggs Valley Dynamite Fishing Club, Fred the Arborian, Peg (the deposed Sheriff) and Marla de Bris – a 200 year old vampire, make daily life a perilous affair for the stormtroopers of the Deannan Republican Army as they work towards the liberation of Xanadu.
The back cover blurb:
“Deanna – the spotted cow of the galaxy, was in trouble.
This was all beyond having a funny moon that fell down occasionally, or having jet-propelled birds that exploded if they flew too high; this was serious.
An army of fascists had seized power and started rebuilding Deanna as a eugenic utopia – without all the messy inconvenience caused by diversity and dissent. They simply excised it from Deannan society, rounding up undesirables and sending them to Xanadu, a concentration camp in the Wilds between the three largest cities of Deanna: Atro City, San Fedora and Fortitude. Out of sight and out of mind.
An energy field set up by the fascists now isolated Deanna from the outside universe – and prevented Terran ships from reaching them to unseat the enemy. After having their hands tied by Terran policy for so many generations, the religious right wing had both hands free – and was working on its swing.
On the prairie, Xanadu was a hell-hole where prisoners were locked up and forgotten, without food, water or shelter – where they only way out was a rapid decline and death. And death suited the architects of Xanadu. But it didn’t suit Danielle Grauffis. Caught up in the fascist’s net by pure chance, she’d been sent there to die. She watched as people around her grew weaker from starvation and died from thirst and exposure. But she wasn’t ready to give up yet, she’d do anything to hold out until rescue came. Anything.
Meanwhile, a resistance movement had risen to unseat the fascists, and their challenge was to defeat them militarily – to free Deanna from their yoke, and most importantly, to free the prisoners incarcerated at Xanadu. Before it was too late.”
In “Xanadu“, readers will meet heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, and embark on an adventure laced with thrills, spills and action. A number of sub-plots run through these latest new stories, including that of Danielle, a young transwoman who was captured by the fascists and sent to their concentration camp, Xanadu. This particular sub-plot tells of the quest of some of the main characters to find and rescue her and the others from their fate and to end the reign of terror of the fascists. Meanwhile, the Deannan Uncivil War continues to build up towards a crescendo – and passes the baton onto the next book in the series, “The Last Hurrah“.
If you haven’t yet read all of the previous titles in the Quantum Series, you should catch up! You can find all my books on Amazon.
Until next time, keep reading!
Cheers!
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