Re-Launch of Darrell Bain's Latest Delight!
November has on tap a lot of excellent writing for those of us hungry to consume it. None, more superb than Darrell Bain, and if you’re into reading science fiction, and you should be, this one is mandatory for your list.As I’ve mentioned before in a previous blog, Darrell and I were both published by Double Dragon Ebooks, easily the largest electronic publisher of science fiction, fantasy and horror. I came to enjoy Darrell’s writing as a fellow author, but more importantly as a sf reader. Tight plots, witty and above all, creative, Darrell’s writing is fast paced and crisp. One of my biggest complaints about science fiction is the unlimited information dumping authors put into their tales, as if validating they can write sf by how much science they put into the story.
Don’t get me wrong. Science is an important aspect of science fiction. Yet information dumping can toss the reader right out of the story. Well, you won’t find that with Darrell’s work. His stories are always geared for fun, action, and excitement with the science offering the support for the tales.
The release of his latest novel, Savage Survival, is sure to be another top seller.
You can even get it in the special edition hardcover. Amazon has it listed for $35.00. However, they also have copies listed under the "New and used copies" for $28.00. They are all new, not used since the book just came out. Snag an autographed one from Darrell's website for even less than that! Just $26.95.
Here’s a brief blurb about Savage Survival to wet your appetite!
SAVAGE SURVIVAL is not just another testosterone driven science fiction novel. At the basic level, it explores the personalities and attitudes of men, women and children when stripped of the comforting insulation of organized society. Invulnerable aliens have captured millions of humans and are subjecting them to the most brutal and horrible environments ever encountered, in essence a survival test of a magnitude heretofore undreamed of.
Lyda Brightner is an eleven year old girl when she is suddenly and without warning separated from her parents and thrown into the midst of undisciplined humans in a harsh desert environment. Food and water and clothing are fought over. Those who control it can do as they wish—and their wishes are terrible.
Lyda is weaponless and alone, like almost everyone. Raped at eleven. Forced to kill. Grieving for her parents. All that stands between Lyda and death is her own innate bravery, her quick mind, her unwavering integrity and ultimately, her belief that someday she will find someone to love.
Lyda's strength of character and fighting spirit make her a leader, even at a very young age. Over the next six years she must constantly fight the ever changing and ever more dangerous environments the aliens subject them to. But she must fight other humans as well, those who have survived by brute strength and ruthless plundering of the weak.
But even if she lives through all this, Lyda must still face the final question: What do the aliens have in mind for the few hundred remaining humans, those few left of all the millions who died?
SAVAGE SURVIVAL is a coming of age novel like no other and Lyda Brightner is a character you'll never forget.
So go enjoy it!
Nicole
