Description
Prescient
by Derek Murphy
Genre: Time Travel/Dystopia
Release Date: March 21st 2016
Summary:
by Derek Murphy
Genre: Time Travel/Dystopia
Release Date: March 21st 2016
Summary:
The first time I saw the future I lost hope.
It wasn’t just that the future sucked; that civilization had gone
and ruined itself; that we’d altered our own DNA and devolved into predatory
monsters that fed on the few remaining survivors. That was all awful enough,
but it was more than that. I remember being young and thinking, when I grow up,
I’ll have a nice big house. I’ll get an exciting, interesting job. I’ll meet
the man of my dreams and we’ll fall in love and stay together forever.
But that all disappeared the first time I tripped 20 years into
the future and found the houses burned, the handsome boys dead, and the only
jobs were the ones young girls gave hairy old survivors in tents in exchange
for a little food and water. Nobody asked little girls what they wanted to be
when they grew up anymore. Nobody wanted to draw attention to the fact that
most of them wouldn’t live that long.
There was no hope, no peace for anyone. At least I had it better
than they did. When my trip was over, I would get to go back. Back
to the normalcy of 2015. Back to iPhones and Twitter and buying so much food it
went bad before you could eat it. Back to laughing over foamy cappuccinos and
iced lattes at the mall, window shopping and flirting with hot guys (not that I
ever did that, mind you - but I always wanted to). And I still could. That
was the point. Unlike everybody else, for whom 2015 was 20 years ago - long
before humanity was destroyed - it was my reality. At least, it was some of the
time.
But after seeing the future; after struggling to make it to
the end of the day; after my first kill - none of those other things were the
least bit enjoyable. All I could think when I got back to the real world,
is how can I stop what’s coming?
About the Author
Derek Murphy: I wrote my MA thesis on Harry Potter and am
working on my PhD in literature, while secretly writing YA fantasy novels and
designing book covers. I blog about self-publishing, book design and book
marketing, and am renting a castle for Nanowrimo 2016. I hope you like my
writing!
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Promo and Giveaway
BEST SCIFI
TIME TRAVEL BOOKS FOR TEENS 2016
Here are
some great young adult time travel books. If you think writing is hard, try
writing time travel fiction – it’s so much more challenging! To honor these
authors, and to launch the book I’m working on (Prescient), I’m giving away a
package of time travel books, and a Harry Potter time turner. It’s the coolest
time-travel related object I could find.
I’ll
choose 3 winners and give each winner ebook copies of each book, plus a time
turner. Everybody who signs up to my list will get my book (Prescient) for
free.
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