May Day

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About May Day

Storm Elliot and Corporal Sean Cameron team up in the suspense and action filled sequel. Flying by paramotors across a burned landscape, their mission is to warn the population of Sydney of an impending disaster from space that will drown the city. However, they are drawn into a multilayered and deadly game of chess played by long-hidden powerful forces. A brilliant but ruthless scientist is an unwelcome VIP on a nuclear submarine crossing the Pacific Ocean bound for Australia. A bizarre experiment aiming to crush the rising dissent of the masses by controlling their minds and bodies is about to begin, even as Earth meets an ancient nemesis. Storm is young and strong, but he's in a race against the inevitable. One he must win, no matter the cost. Praise from Amazon reviewers: This book has some serious suspense... Great apocalyptic read!! Very descriptive text and suspenseful... So many elements of truth that it is terrifying to think of the possibility... The characters are very endearing. I liked them from the get-go and they really got me invested in the story. May Day is Book II of The Erelong Trilogy. Author's Notes When I commissioned the orange cover for Jubilee Year, Erelong Trilogy Book I, and supplied the artist with a concept way back in 2015, I had no idea how prescient the cover, and indeed the book's contents would turn out to be. It isn't easy to forget the widespread bushfires in Australia. That time we now call the Black Summer of 2019-2020. It isn't easy to forget that orange sky! The second book in the series, May Day, Erelong Trilogy Book II, also hit the mark with what really is a tried and true trope in SF, 'the fortress city'. In the book, the fortress was Sydney. Only three years after publishing May Day, newspapers and the mass media began referring to Melbourne in 2020 as a 'fortress city'. One reason I love science fiction as a genre is that so often, it seems the unconscious mind rewards the conscious writer-mind with imaginings that tap into real events before they happen. If you enjoy intrigue, a grand conspiracy, and a wild ride, then these books are for you. Book III in the trilogy is under development and is scheduled for publication in late 2021-early 2022. Warning! Jubilee Year and the sequel May Day appear to have triggered a few readers. It helps if you are an adult and broad-minded in the sense you like your SF spiced with political intrigue. It also helps if you read the books as allegories, which is the way I intended the stories to be taken.

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