Title: The Long Journey: tales of a world yet to come
Author: Cara J. Swanson
Release Date: 27th December 2013
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One hundred years after the end of the last Great War, humanity is still recovering from a long span of brutal, escalating warfare; first chemical and biological, then nuclear, and finally, genetic. After barely surviving the last Great War - a war in which genetically modified animals and insects were used as the primary weapons - mankind has resorted to outlawing technology of any kind. The very planet is on the brink as the catastrophic climate and environmental changes that humans have wrought still threaten the existence of all life. This unique collection of stories-within-stories looks at life after The End, and what it might mean for the world we've created. In "The Long Journey," we follow along with a bounty hunter and her gen-a-wolf partner as they escort their prisoner back for judgment. "After the Tower Fell" pays homage to one of this century's greatest fiction writers, while "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished" is a hard look at the disparity between the rich and the poor. "World Series" takes a humorous look at a secret sport taking place under our very noses, and "Ula's Turn" examines the true price of civilization.
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EXCERPT
Join the Seeker Khadija and her Seeker-Partner,
the Gen-a-wolf Ula, as they track a thief into the dangerous Highlands
that border the White River . They are to take
the thief back west, to the prison of Valley City Valley
City
Imagine a world with no electricity...no cell
phones...no computers. A world still devastated by the effects of global
pollution, of massive climate change, of widespread genetic manipulation, of
nuclear war. Imagine a world where we are the ones in the history books. What
will they write about you?
Khadija and Ula live in a world where
electricity and technology exist only in stories from the old days, and the
leaders of Valley
City
their courage, their strength, their
fearlessness in the face of battle, but many were intended for more malignant
purposes. It is a world where "muties" are commonplace; a world of
lifeless dirt and dead seas. It is a world where humans and their kin barely
survived mankind's foolishness, and the very planet is still attempting to
recover.
Along their journey, Khadija will discover that
everything she's been taught about what caused The End, and what came after, is
not the truth. Even the thief, and his crime, are not what they seem to be.
Both Khadija and Ula will have to decide where their loyalties lie, and how far
they are willing to go to seek true justice in this new and frightening world.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cara
J. Swanson was born in Colorado somewhere around thirty-six years ago, and
immediately
leapt to work on her first story. She did not venture into self-publishing
until 2006, however, when she formed Nighthawk/Raven Publishing to publish her
first book, Blood Cult: Book I of the Elvestran Chronicles. She has since
published the sequel, Daígu, a companion
Dictionary,
and is working on the third in the series (The Desert Wanderer) as well as a
murder mystery (When Demons Dance) and has recently published a futuristic
partially fiction book titled The Long Journey. She has two mottos; “Be careful
or you’ll end up in my novel,” and “I wish I was capable of working on one
project at a time. But I’m not.” All her books are published under her personal
four tenants of walking the Red Road: dedication to family, dedication to
community, dedication to social justice, and dedication to ecological health.
She is a signatory member of the Green Press Initiative.
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