The Dream Widow
Authors: Stephen Colegrove
Tags: #Hard Science Fiction, #High Tech, #Science Fiction & Fantasy, #Science Fiction, #Post-Apocalyptic, #Adventure, #Literature & Fiction
| The Dream Widow | |
| Valley of the Sleeping Birds [2] | |
| Stephen Colegrove | |
| (2013) | |
| Rating: | ★★★★★ |
| Tags: | Hard Science Fiction, High Tech, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Adventure, Literature Fiction Hard Science Fictionttt High Techttt Science Fiction Fantasyttt Science Fictionttt Post-Apocalypticttt Adventurettt Literature Fictionttt |
You saved the girl. Three hundred years after the bomb, that's still a thing people do. And you did it.
Together you fought through wild animals, savage tribes, and hostile, technologically-advanced humans to find a cure for her seizures. You were bitten by giant lizards, shot by your own gun, and buried alive. You even made it back to the mountain refuge that's supported your people for three centuries.
You met those long dead and those only dead in memory. You found friends and deadly enemies. What you didn't count on was them finding you.
In the sequel to "A Girl Called Badger," the machinery beneath the mountain refuge begins to fail. The villagers face the rapid destruction of a centuries-old way of life as a hostile army approaches from the east.
Wanted on twelve systems for a crime he didn't commit, the author grew up watching anything and everything sci-fi: Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Space: 1999, Star Wars, and The A-Team. Oh, and Airwolf. Author is elbowing me in the ribs painfully--I am to emphasize his love for Airwolf, and not screw it up by making it sarcastic or hipster-ironic like I always do. Author wishes he could fly a secret government helicopter with Ernest Borgnine behind him in the dickie seat? (That's what he said, trust me.) Author's early years were spent running from wastelanders in the hills of southern Ohio. After college he turned away glittering job offers in food service and insurance and worked for the post office. He taught Bad English in China and Germany, became a Master of Teaching English Thing, joined an internet startup for the free lunches, learned about the science of fire (this can't be a real thing), and worked on a 911 ambulance (he's still working there, trust me). In author's free time he stays one foot ahead of the federales and gives his assistant a raise of 20,000 kopecks and a car and Diner's Club. Author says to tell you his literary influences are Hemingway and Raymond Carver but I can see him through the basement window and he only reads garbage Star Trek fan-fic and that Alan Partridge biography over and over.
Table of Contents
The Story So Far (A Synopsis of Book One)
The Dream Widow
Valley of the Sleeping Birds [2]
Stephen Colegrove
(2013)
Rating:
★★★★★
Tags:
Hard Science Fiction, High Tech, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Adventure, Literature Fiction
Hard Science Fictionttt High Techttt Science Fiction Fantasyttt Science Fictionttt Post-Apocalypticttt Adventurettt Literature Fictionttt
You saved the girl. Three hundred years after the bomb, that's still a thing people do. And you did it.
Together you fought through wild animals, savage tribes, and hostile, technologically-advanced humans to find a cure for her seizures. You were bitten by giant lizards, shot by your own gun, and buried alive. You even made it back to the mountain refuge that's supported your people for three centuries.
You met those long dead and those only dead in memory. You found friends and deadly enemies. What you didn't count on was them finding you.
In the sequel to "A Girl Called Badger," the machinery beneath the mountain refuge begins to fail. The villagers face the rapid destruction of a centuries-old way of life as a hostile army approaches from the east.
About the Author
Wanted on twelve systems for a crime he didn't commit, the author grew up watching anything and everything sci-fi: Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Space: 1999, Star Wars, and The A-Team. Oh, and Airwolf. Author is elbowing me in the ribs painfully--I am to emphasize his love for Airwolf, and not screw it up by making it sarcastic or hipster-ironic like I always do. Author wishes he could fly a secret government helicopter with Ernest Borgnine behind him in the dickie seat? (That's what he said, trust me.) Author's early years were spent running from wastelanders in the hills of southern Ohio. After college he turned away glittering job offers in food service and insurance and worked for the post office. He taught Bad English in China and Germany, became a Master of Teaching English Thing, joined an internet startup for the free lunches, learned about the science of fire (this can't be a real thing), and worked on a 911 ambulance (he's still working there, trust me). In author's free time he stays one foot ahead of the federales and gives his assistant a raise of 20,000 kopecks and a car and Diner's Club. Author says to tell you his literary influences are Hemingway and Raymond Carver but I can see him through the basement window and he only reads garbage Star Trek fan-fic and that Alan Partridge biography over and over.
Table of Contents
The Story So Far (A Synopsis of Book One)
The Dream Widow
Stephen Colegrove
(2013)
Rating: ★★★★★
Tags: Hard Science Fiction, High Tech, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, Adventure, Literature Fiction
Hard Science Fictionttt High Techttt Science Fiction Fantasyttt Science Fictionttt Post-Apocalypticttt Adventurettt Literature Fictionttt
You saved the girl. Three hundred years after the bomb, that's still a thing people do. And you did it.
Together you fought through wild animals, savage tribes, and hostile, technologically-advanced humans to find a cure for her seizures. You were bitten by giant lizards, shot by your own gun, and buried alive. You even made it back to the mountain refuge that's supported your people for three centuries.
You met those long dead and those only dead in memory. You found friends and deadly enemies. What you didn't count on was them finding you.
In the sequel to "A Girl Called Badger," the machinery beneath the mountain refuge begins to fail. The villagers face the rapid destruction of a centuries-old way of life as a hostile army approaches from the east.
About the Author
Wanted on twelve systems for a crime he didn't commit, the author grew up watching anything and everything sci-fi: Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Space: 1999, Star Wars, and The A-Team. Oh, and Airwolf. Author is elbowing me in the ribs painfully--I am to emphasize his love for Airwolf, and not screw it up by making it sarcastic or hipster-ironic like I always do. Author wishes he could fly a secret government helicopter with Ernest Borgnine behind him in the dickie seat? (That's what he said, trust me.) Author's early years were spent running from wastelanders in the hills of southern Ohio. After college he turned away glittering job offers in food service and insurance and worked for the post office. He taught Bad English in China and Germany, became a Master of Teaching English Thing, joined an internet startup for the free lunches, learned about the science of fire (this can't be a real thing), and worked on a 911 ambulance (he's still working there, trust me). In author's free time he stays one foot ahead of the federales and gives his assistant a raise of 20,000 kopecks and a car and Diner's Club. Author says to tell you his literary influences are Hemingway and Raymond Carver but I can see him through the basement window and he only reads garbage Star Trek fan-fic and that Alan Partridge biography over and over.
The Dream Widow
Valley of the Sleeping Birds Book Two
by Stephen Colegrove
Copyright Information
THE DREAM WIDOW
Copyright 2013 Stephen Colegrove
First Edition: March 2013
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Cover art by Zummerfish
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Also by the author:
A Girl Called Badger
(Sleeping Birds Book One)
Many thanks to all the friends and family who supported me during the creation of this book.
The Story So Far (A Synopsis of Book One)
Three centuries after the viral holocaust, WILSON lives in a mountain community in the ruins of an old research complex. Some of the machinery still works and provides heat, water, and warning of intruders. During a secretive coming-of-age ceremony at age twelve all villagers are given mysterious implants. The implants of BADGER, a village hunter, begin to give her seizures. While searching for more information on the sickness, she and Wilson fall in love. An old database reveals that her seizures will become fatal in six weeks.
The teenagers brave spiders and poisonous lizards in the abandoned tunnels under the village and learn that an old military base in the east holds a possible cure. FATHER REED––Wilson's teacher and leader of the village––organizes an expedition but orders Wilson to stay behind. He defiantly follows the travelers, surviving attacks from wolves and bears and capture by a hostile tribe. Halfway to Colorado Springs he rejoins Badger at David, a friendly village.
Wilson thought his father had died in an ambush years before but discovers he has become a religious figure among the tribal people at David. His father travels east with Wilson and perishes in a deadly ambush. Alone again, Wilson and Badger cross the ruins of Colorado Springs and find the military base. The device they need to cure Badger––a sequencer––is missing. A slave-trading group called The Circle capture the pair and Wilson is shot at close range.