a tale of two blurbs
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adelaideseanFollowing up on its recent PopBitch appearance, here's the UK back-cover blurb of Saturn Returns.
It's more substantial than the US version, since there's more room on a trade paperback. I think they complement each other nicely, without giving too much away.
The UK cover should be here soon, and I'll post that as soon as it comes.
As an added bonus for fans of the Change fantasy novels, I've included the draft blurb for The Changeling, which is coming out in September.
SATURN RETURNS
When former mercenary commander, Imre Bergamasc, awakes in the 879th Millennium on the edge of the galactic rim, with large portions of his memory missing, he understandably has a few questions - not the least of which is: why is he now a woman?
It seems that Imre's body has been resurrected from the fragments of a bizarre time capsule - an iron drum half a kilometre long, recording his every last detail. Unfortunately, the drum was all but destroyed in an obvious attempt to erase all that remained of him, leaving his record - and his memories - incomplete. After it becomes clear that his rescuers' motives are not entirely altruistic, Imre steals a ship and flees back towards civilisation - or, at least, where civilisation used to be when he was last alive.
Now, following a galaxy-wide disaster known as the Slow Wave, the Continuum has collapsed, the bright galactic empire reduced to millions of disparate systems in various states of disarray. Reunited with his old team-mates - or, at least, reasonable facsimiles thereof - Imre must piece together both the fragments of his memory and the story of civilisation's fall. The more he digs the more suspicion dawns that the two issues are far from separate.
Was the Imre Bergamasc he no longer remembers an unwitting pawn in the fall of civilisation? Or was he, in fact, the architect? And if unknown parties have gone to such extreme lengths to resurrect him, why are they now trying to kill him? Again.
THE CHANGELING
An unlikely hero, a desperate villain, a treacherous land...
Ros lives on a farm in the grip of a terrible drought. His family is having a hard time and no one has too many kind words for a useless boy; until the mysterious Escher, a voice with no body, starts talking inside Ros’s head.
Escher helps Ros unlock his extraordinary ability to use The Change, a magical power that taps into the land, fire, the water and the air. When his parents hire a sinister weather worker to bring the rain, Escher reveals their secret plans and Ros must risk everything to escape his own home.
A stolen camel and an invisible entity are Ros’s only companions until he takes up with a family of the Clan. But will he be able to keep himself safe in their strict world of honour and rules, much less Adi, the girl who has asked him to save her from a future neither of them can imagine?
And if he can’t save her, and if even a Stone Mage can’t save him, how can he decide who his real friends are, or who is telling the truth?
It's more substantial than the US version, since there's more room on a trade paperback. I think they complement each other nicely, without giving too much away.
The UK cover should be here soon, and I'll post that as soon as it comes.
As an added bonus for fans of the Change fantasy novels, I've included the draft blurb for The Changeling, which is coming out in September.
SATURN RETURNS
When former mercenary commander, Imre Bergamasc, awakes in the 879th Millennium on the edge of the galactic rim, with large portions of his memory missing, he understandably has a few questions - not the least of which is: why is he now a woman?
It seems that Imre's body has been resurrected from the fragments of a bizarre time capsule - an iron drum half a kilometre long, recording his every last detail. Unfortunately, the drum was all but destroyed in an obvious attempt to erase all that remained of him, leaving his record - and his memories - incomplete. After it becomes clear that his rescuers' motives are not entirely altruistic, Imre steals a ship and flees back towards civilisation - or, at least, where civilisation used to be when he was last alive.
Now, following a galaxy-wide disaster known as the Slow Wave, the Continuum has collapsed, the bright galactic empire reduced to millions of disparate systems in various states of disarray. Reunited with his old team-mates - or, at least, reasonable facsimiles thereof - Imre must piece together both the fragments of his memory and the story of civilisation's fall. The more he digs the more suspicion dawns that the two issues are far from separate.
Was the Imre Bergamasc he no longer remembers an unwitting pawn in the fall of civilisation? Or was he, in fact, the architect? And if unknown parties have gone to such extreme lengths to resurrect him, why are they now trying to kill him? Again.
THE CHANGELING
An unlikely hero, a desperate villain, a treacherous land...
Ros lives on a farm in the grip of a terrible drought. His family is having a hard time and no one has too many kind words for a useless boy; until the mysterious Escher, a voice with no body, starts talking inside Ros’s head.
Escher helps Ros unlock his extraordinary ability to use The Change, a magical power that taps into the land, fire, the water and the air. When his parents hire a sinister weather worker to bring the rain, Escher reveals their secret plans and Ros must risk everything to escape his own home.
A stolen camel and an invisible entity are Ros’s only companions until he takes up with a family of the Clan. But will he be able to keep himself safe in their strict world of honour and rules, much less Adi, the girl who has asked him to save her from a future neither of them can imagine?
And if he can’t save her, and if even a Stone Mage can’t save him, how can he decide who his real friends are, or who is telling the truth?
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Wowie
Date: 2007-03-11 10:54 pm (UTC)Re: Wowie
Date: 2007-03-12 02:06 am (UTC)Can't wait :)
Date: 2007-03-12 05:24 am (UTC)