Dirt is for rebels.
“Life On Dirt is jam-packed with indelible characters and lush prose that makes you think of such top-tier ‘coming of age’ tales as The Dark Beyond the Stars and The Testament of Jessie Lamb, and the kind of tech-heavy and often biting first-person narrative that might make Andy Weir smile.” ~ Dayton Ward, NYT Bestselling Author, ”Star Trek: Headlong Flight”
Sixty years ago the United States Space Service was created and empowered to protect the potentially unlimited knowledge and wealth of space for the benefit of the whole of humankind. Guardians of fusion technology and everything above the atmosphere, the Space Service controls the flow of people, materiel, and information between Earth and the space stations, Luna, and Mars. Everyone in space is bound to the Space Service, and all spacers belong to the Service-mandated racial elite. The Space Service owns the stars—and it does not intend to share.
Seventeen-year-old Mara Duval, born in space, was destined to be part of humanity’s first mission to the moons of Jupiter, until a medical accident left her quarantined on dirt forever.
But dirt is not the blighted wasteland she’d been taught it was, and the Space Service is holding humanity’s future hostage behind a wall of lies. Now Mara is fighting back by transmitting videos of the truth to friends in space, speaking out whenever she can, and sharing technology and secrets with her Dirt ally Jael Alden, a young visionary determined to break through the Space Service’s racial barrier.
She knows she doesn’t have much time until the Space Service realizes what she’s doing and stops her. But until they do, Mara’s going to make the most of her life on dirt.
“Kevin Killiany’s delightfully immersive writing sucks you right into the characters, their situation, their location, and their lives. A most compelling read.” ~ Keith R. A. DeCandido, Author of Novels in “Star Trek,” “Supernatural,” “Sleepy Hollow,” and More
Evolved Publishing presents the second book in Dirt and Stars. This young adult science fiction series features an alternative history/future adventure sure to keep you glued to the page. [DRM-Free]
"Dirt and Stars" Series by Kevin Killiany:
Sales have been limited thus far, but we're preparing a big marketing and advertising puch to coincide with the release of Book 4 in late 2018. This will include aggressive AMS ads and Facebook ads.
My life—the life I had—is over.
I’ve been practicing saying that. Trying to get myself used to the idea. The future I wanted more than anything else—the future I was so certain was mine—is gone. I’ll never explore Jupiter’s moons, tunnel beneath the ice of Europa, establish a new human colony. I’ll never see space again—at least not clearly, not without kilometers of gases blurring and rippling the stars.
Six hours before sunrise. I think I’m the only one in the house awake. It’s zero degrees outside—thirty-two on the locals’ Fahrenheit scale—and the wind is tapping bare tree branches against my window. A sound that used to terrify me. I am propped up by pillows in the daybed Beth built, mostly covered with a comforter even though it’s at least twenty degrees in my bedroom, and this is my very first entry in my new journal.
Why am I starting a new journal? I will never again see my first one—the one I was writing for Commander Tenafly and Mr. Harvester. I gave that journal to Jael when I gave her my station computer. This one has to do with something I noticed when I started writing that first one on Tombaugh Station. I think I wrote about this before—the noticing part, anyway—but it’s worth repeating. Writing things down in a journal forced me to really look at the world around me and think about what I was looking at. Knowing that every night I’d have to write about what I saw and did during the day made me pay attention to what I saw and did—what I heard, what I said, and what I thought, too. And writing about those things made me reflect on them, process them, as I wrote. And that reflection helped me understand things—sometimes more than I wanted to. (I mean that. I was happier before I understood why the Space Service does what it does.)
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Italian
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Already translated.
Translated by Carmelo Massimo Tidona
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Author review: Carmelo has, once again, been a real pleasure to work with, and a true professional. We would recommend him highly. ~ Dave Lane, CEO, Managing Publisher/Editor |
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Portuguese
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Already translated.
Translated by Juliana Scheffer
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Author review: Juliana does great work, a real pleasure to work with. |
