The Deep Black

It wasn’t doing anything. Trying to get noticed in a flood of a quarter of a million self published books a year isn’t exactly easy and as for agents, well, either they want you to pay them a fortune for a plug or two, or they’re so overwhelmed with books, you might get a read in a decade.

So, in a desperate attempt to at least get a few people to have a look, I thought I might publish a few extracts here. I hope you enjoy it enough to download the whole thing (I wish Medium’s Android app had a better editor, I did my best).

The bass was thumping and a cheer went up as a group of ethereal voices swelled and started singing a song that everyone knew and loved. The party in the wasteland was just about to hit the peak of its second night and Dougie was sitting with his friends a bit back from where the people were dancing. Judy passed him a beer and took one for herself from the big cool box filled with ice and drinks and cracked it open.

“Are we staying till the morning?” She asked.

“I’m not sure,” replied Dougie. “I think we might have to. We’ll never get an autocab out here and I really don’t fancy the trek back to the road in the dark. Anyway, look at the others, they’re having way too good a time to want to go now,”

Dougie had just finished his PhD and he and the others from the university were celebrating the end of the frantic hard work that they’d put in over the last couple of years. He’d started his degree at sixteen after breezing through secondary school. He’d always had a clear and logical mind and if he were to be honest with himself, he’d had enough of academia to last a lifetime.

He really wanted a year off to travel but he had nothing but debt in his bank account and the prospect of going to work for a large conglomerate wasn’t particularly appealing either.

The world was in a dreadful state. Global warming was going into overdrive in 2034 and whole ecosystems were collapsing all over the world.

Technology was still…

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