Mercury Rising
by R.W.W. Greene
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Pub Date May 10 2022 | Archive Date Oct 24 2023
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Description
AVAILABLE AS READ NOW TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF THE SEQUEL, EARTH RETROGRADE (24th October)
Even in a technologically-advanced, Kennedy-Didn’t-Die alternate-history, Brooklyn Lamontagne is going nowhere fast.
The year is 1975, thirty years after Robert Oppenheimer invented the Oppenheimer Atomic Engine, twenty-five years after the first human walked on the moon, and eighteen years after Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven sacrificed their lives to stop the alien invaders.
Brooklyn just wants to keep his mother’s rent paid, earn a little scratch of his own, steer clear of the cops, and maybe get laid sometime in the near future. Simple pleasures, right? But a killer with a baseball bat and a mysterious box of 8-track tapes is about to make his life real complicated. So, rot away in prison or sign up to defend the planet from the assholes who dropped a meteorite on Cleveland? Brooklyn crosses his fingers and picks the Earth Orbital Forces. A few years in the trenches and then -- assuming he survives -- he'll get his life back, right? Unfortunately, the universe has other plans, and Brooklyn is launched into a story about saving humanity, finding family, and growing as a person -- while coping with high-stakes space battles, mystery science experiments and finding out the real enemies aren’t the tentacled monsters on the recruitment poster.
Unless they are.
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Advance Praise
"The toll difficult moral choices take on families is the core conflict of this clever far-future debut from Greene... Sophisticated worldbuilding and diverse, emotionally-resonant characters make Greene an author to watch. "
– Publishers Weekly
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780857669728 |
| PRICE | $15.99 (USD) |
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