Runaway Humanity
by Joshua Valentine
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Pub Date Nov 01 2022 | Archive Date Mar 31 2023
Description
As the Earth died out from worsening climate change and heightened global conflicts, so did humanity, along with everything that once defined Earth as the only planet in the universe known to harbor life.
All life known to exist to man died out. Or, at least, it was assumed to by every member of the human race.
Thirty years after the roughly one hundred million humans still alive on Earth mass-migrated to Mars and colonized the red planet, this conventional wisdom is suddenly challenged when signs of life are detected on the once-dead planet. It’s not extremophiles, microorganisms able to live in extreme weather and environmental conditions; so, what is it that is being detected?
Faced with a corrupted space agency and a colony of humans risking total extinction, Doctor Shelby Hilton, along with her husband Drake, must travel back to Earth to find out what's still alive on the planet, and what it means for the future of humanity. Even if traveling to that dangerously unknown planet meant risking their lives, and their reputations in the dying Martian colony they now called home.
Advance Praise
“An often-gruesome speculative yarn in which male malevolence predominates.”
-Kirkus
“The key to Runaway Humanity is that you never know what’s going to happen next, and that’s what truly drives the story. And Valentine, a drag queen, has also injected his physical self into the novel [...] setting an intriguing tone for the story the reader is about to consume.”
-San Francisco Book Review
“With its fair share of strong plot twists, it does well at keeping readers guessing. Those who are looking for a dark space-themed thriller with heartfelt moments will enjoy Runaway Humanity.”
-Independent Book Review
“Runaway Humanity by Joshua Valentine is a savagely penned and fearless slice of dystopian science fiction, reflecting the author’s mantra at the onset, “Don’t allow human nature to take center over that of mother nature.””
-Self-Publishing Review
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 387254
If you enjoy Scifi and/or fantasy with a specific interest in space then this is the book for you. It's very well written.
I was interested in the book because the description sounded amazing and what I did read was good. However I did not finish the book as it is too scifi and spacy for me. I don't normally read this genre but was taken in by the premise
Trisha B, Librarian
I was drawn to this book the moment I saw it and was very happy to receive a paper copy. I was excited to start this book and it definitely did not let me down. To say I loved this book would be an understatement.
Joshua Valentine’s writing was engaging, fresh, and the sentence flow was clean. The characters were very well done and had depth that kept you caring about their journeys the whole way through.
The story line was thought provoking and a full of engaging twist and turns while being very original. The underlying message was profound.
If I could give this more than five stars I would.
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