Dropnauts

Aug 19, 2022

Dropnauts – J. Scot Coatsworth 

 

Life after the Crash.

Over a century after the end of the Earth, life goes on in Redemption, the sole remaining Lunar colony, and possibly the last outpost of humankind in the Solar System. But with an existential threat burrowing its way into the Moon's core, humanity must recolonize the homeworld.

Twenty brave dropnauts set off on a mission to explore the empty planet. Four of them-Rai, Hera, Ghost and Tien-have trained for two-and-a-half years for the Return. They're bound for Martinez Base, just outside the Old Earth city of San Francisco.

But what awaits them there will turn their assumptions upside down-and in the process, either save or destroy what's left of humanity.

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Subgenres: Adventure, Agripunk / Hopepunk / Solarpunk, Apocalyptic / Post-Apocalyptic, Artificial Intelligence, 1, Dying Earth, Hard SF, LGBTQIA+, Space Opera

Date first published:  August 26, 2021

On Kindle Unlimited: No

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Author Information

Twitter: https://www.jscottoatsworth.com/jscoatworth

Website: https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com

Biography: Scott lives with his husband of 25 years in a leafy Sacramento, California suburb, in a little yellow house with a brick fireplace and a couple pink flamingoes out front. He has always inhabited the space between the here and now and the what could be. Indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine, he devoured her library. But as he grew up and read the golden age classics and more modern works as well, he began to wonder where all the people like him were. After he came out at twenty three, he decided that it was time to create the kinds of stories he couldn’t find at Waldenbooks. If there weren’t many gay characters in his favorite genres, he would reimagine them himself, populating them with a diverse universe of characters. He would subvert them and remake them to his own ends. And if he was lucky enough, someone else would want to read the things he wrote. His friends say Scott’s brain works a little differently – he sees relationships between things that others miss, and gets more done in a day than most folks manage in a week. Although he was born an introvert, he learned to reach outside himself and connect with others like him. Scott writes stories that subvert expectations, that seek to transform traditional sci fi, fantasy, and contemporary worlds into something new and unexpected. He also runs both Queer Sci Fi and QueeRomance Ink with his husband Mark, sites that bring people like them together to promote and celebrate fiction that reflects their own reality. His writing, whether romance or genre fiction (or a little bit of both) brings a queer energy to his stories, infusing them with love, beauty and power and making them soar. He imagines a world that could be, and in the process, maybe changes the world that is, just a little. He was recognized as one of the top new gay authors in the 2017 Rainbow Awards, and his debut novel “Skythane” received two awards and an honorable mention. He runs Queer Sci Fi, QueeRomance Ink, and Other Worlds Ink with Mark, and is the committee chair for the Indie Authors Committee at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).

Other information

Cover artist name: J. Scott Coatsworth

Cover artist website: https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com

Editor/Formatter’s name: Gus Li (Editor)

Editor/Formatter’s website: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14240404.Gus_Li