I just thought I'd announce something new that I've just started working on. It's another novel named 'Battleships'. Disbelief is up to one hundred and fifteen thousand words now and it's rapidly catching up to the column, so while I'm slowing down and adding material that I missed in that, I've been putting together ideas for this new piece.
The base plot is about a modern day Earth that has been targetted by an external enemy who need our core for fuel and energy. Instead of bothering with a trade or a costly invasion, they simply nuke the fuck out of it. Battleships follows the stories of the survivors who make it to the Battleship, which is a mobile air fortress capable of bearing almost a thousand people in the event of nuclear war. Originally, it was designed as an evacuation vehicle and control centre, but it also has all the traits of a naval aircraft carrier. Unfortunately, it's neither finished nor perfect. (It has a railgun placement, but the railgun prototype was traded with an enemy country in exchange for the release of prisoners of war) It also needs to make constant stops for water, food and new recruits.
Another aspect of the story is the non-air survivors. These are forced to live down in the wastelands, under constant threat of attack from the enemy. Due to the radioactive territory, food and water is scarce, and just living down in the scattered towns means that people are slowly dying from breathing in the air. Of course, the Battleship is their only defence, so they have to be the ones to supply the food and water, so they have to move into the few territories still capable of sustaining life and risk their lives with the enemy there looking for them all of the time.
One more point to add is that they're much more technologically advanced. Humanity can not break the atmosphere, nor can we move at the speed of light. Our weapons are inferior, and we only have one military craft capable of repelling anything, that being the Battleship itself. Thankfully, the admiral is not only daring, she is suicidal.
She's also hot.
Expect extracts from the diary of the main character to appear in this blog. Each extract precedes each chapter, so you'll get those, but you won't get any of the actual work for free.
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