The Forgotten | Saruuh Kelsey
Free YA science fiction.
Good and goodness will prevail.
Honour and Horatia Frie are twins living in a world of wreck and ruin.
Forgotten London is a dismal place of containment, rationing, and a four-family-per-house regulation. Twenty five years ago the world was set ablaze when solar flares obliterated three quarters of the Earth’s population and wiped out whole continents in one blow. The flares brought with them The Sixteen Strains: agonizing and fatal diseases that plague each of the forty one zones of Forgotten London and the rest of the world. The only places that escaped fatal damage were two countries now known as The Cities – States and Bharat. The rest of the world – The Forgotten Lands – is contained within borders for the people’s protection against even deadlier Strains outside the barrier. But fifteen year old Honour thinks differently. He thinks that they’re kept inside the fence for other, more menacing reasons. He thinks that States are planning to kill them.
Branwell and Bennet Ravel are twins living in a world of danger and secrecy.
In Victorian London, years before the solar flares hit, the Ravels’ world has just been turned upside down. Their father, poisoned by something even genius Branwell can’t determine, has passed away. His dying words were unnerving orders to keep each other safe no matter the cost, and to hide everything he has ever invented. When one of his creations goes missing – a device named The Lux that can generate unlimited energy – the twins are shocked to discover that their very own government has stolen it and, according to their father’s journals, are planning to use it to create unfathomable explosions to destroy their world.
The Ravel twins will have to find and reclaim The Lux if they are to stop their world’s planned destruction, but when they’re transported to an unfamiliar, derelict world, the search for the device will become harder than ever. Honour and Horatia, against all odds, will have to find a way to stop States before the remainder of Earth is eradicated and their world is lost for good, or somehow get every single citizen of Forgotten London outside of the fence.
Honour and Horatia Frie are twins living in a world of wreck and ruin.
Forgotten London is a dismal place of containment, rationing, and a four-family-per-house regulation. Twenty five years ago the world was set ablaze when solar flares obliterated three quarters of the Earth’s population and wiped out whole continents in one blow. The flares brought with them The Sixteen Strains: agonizing and fatal diseases that plague each of the forty one zones of Forgotten London and the rest of the world. The only places that escaped fatal damage were two countries now known as The Cities – States and Bharat. The rest of the world – The Forgotten Lands – is contained within borders for the people’s protection against even deadlier Strains outside the barrier. But fifteen year old Honour thinks differently. He thinks that they’re kept inside the fence for other, more menacing reasons. He thinks that States are planning to kill them.
Branwell and Bennet Ravel are twins living in a world of danger and secrecy.
In Victorian London, years before the solar flares hit, the Ravels’ world has just been turned upside down. Their father, poisoned by something even genius Branwell can’t determine, has passed away. His dying words were unnerving orders to keep each other safe no matter the cost, and to hide everything he has ever invented. When one of his creations goes missing – a device named The Lux that can generate unlimited energy – the twins are shocked to discover that their very own government has stolen it and, according to their father’s journals, are planning to use it to create unfathomable explosions to destroy their world.
The Ravel twins will have to find and reclaim The Lux if they are to stop their world’s planned destruction, but when they’re transported to an unfamiliar, derelict world, the search for the device will become harder than ever. Honour and Horatia, against all odds, will have to find a way to stop States before the remainder of Earth is eradicated and their world is lost for good, or somehow get every single citizen of Forgotten London outside of the fence.
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Excerpt
Everywhere
there is dust and dirt. Everywhere there are people, so many people, pushing
past each other. Rushing and running, none of them stop to chatter on the
street. Not a single person pauses to converse with a neighbour or
acquaintance.
This
is a place without friendship, as well, I muse. It is as if someone has removed
the very things that make us human—our hope, our futures, our companionship—and
left a bare version of humanity.
These
people do not rush because they have somewhere to be, or because they are late.
They rush because they do not want to be on these dusty, despondent streets any
longer than necessary. Their homes are their only havens, but even those look
beaten down compared to the buildings of the London I know.
The
exterior of each building is crumbling, worn away by things I cannot even
imagine. I wonder if the houses are so decayed because they have been through
wars so long ago that the people here can’t even remember them. I also,
reluctantly, consider the possibility that this place, this former city of
glory and prosperity, has come to be in this state because of The Lux and The Weapon.
Maybe
this is what The Weapon does. Maybe it strips away the very things that make us
people and the very things that make a city a city. I think that I understand
now why these are called The Forgotten Lands and why this is Forgotten London.
I had presupposed that someone, somewhere, had forgotten that London
existed—that this world lived inside a vacuum of isolation and nobody in the
world knew of it any longer. But I was wrong. It is not the world that has
forgotten these people; these people have forgotten the world.
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If you thinking 'wait, did you write this book?' ... yes, yes I did. I'm spotlighting it because the 2013 waiting list will be shut down soon and another for 2014 will be opened, but will have a waiting period of over a year. So if you want a copy in the next year, get your name down now!
Also the tagline I've been cultivating for about five months is finally on the cover. This is the cover for the second paperback edition of The Forgotten, so the firsts don't have it, but all new copies will. I think it sums up the series perfectly.
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~Saruuh
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