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GROUND ZERO
2048: the city of Adelaide – the capital of
South Australia – has
grown, developed, changed. The population has doubled, and the city’s
livelihood is high technology. A new university has grown up since the
Twenties – Franklin University, in the hills above the city. It’s the
home to Doctor Robert Strachan’s Paranormal Studies department, where
Lee Ronson and Brendan Scott head the data analysis team.
They’re the best in a difficult business, and
they’ll be tested to
their limits in an assignment handed to Strachan by Metro’s most senior
criminologist, DCS Maggie Jarmin.
It’s winter when the city suffers a series of
bizarre murders,
robberies at high-tech labs – and a virus which sprang from nowhere.
Every two days, a fresh body is discovered … entirely drained of blood.
Every two days, a weapons research or energy technologies facility is
robbed of a seemingly bizarre list of oddments. Meanwhile, the virus
known only by a codename – 2048-3a – is so new, no part of the
community is immune and the city is crippled.
Murders, robberies and virus are intimately
connected in a mystery
that will astonish. Lee Ronson and Brendan Scott find themselves taking
point in an investigation filled with unexpected hazard – and equally
unforeseen reward. Sexy very-near-future gay
action/adventure from the pen of the maestro.
Read
the first 10% of the novel, free!
(Caveat: material in this free sample is not
suitable for juniors. Consider youreself warned!)
Read
the 5-star review at Rainbow Reviews...
Read
the 5-star review at Aricia's Gay Book Blog...
- Novel length:
103,000 words
- Rated: R (18+;
sex, violence, language)
- ISBN:
978-0-9807092-0-9
- Publication date:
September, 2009
- Publisher:
DreamCraft.
- Price: $9.99 -
ebook; $19.95 - paper (due)
- Cover: Jade
Current availability: eBook, in many formats. Paperback:
due at Amazon in October 2009
eBook as PDF for iLiad, BeBook; PDB for Sony
reader and iPhone; MOB for Mobipocket reader and Kindle; LRF for Sony
Reader.
Pullquote:
Mel Keegan’s name is a byword for thrilling gay adventure in the past,
present and future — MILLIVRES on Aquamarine.
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Mel Keegan talks about GROUND ZERO
What's this -- another new book from Mel
Keegan,
in the same year?! In fact, it is -- and Keegan might even be able to
get a third one out this side of Christmas (three books in 2009: woah).
So here is an early "pilot page" for the new
Keegan!
First off, I want to hand out kudos: Jade
excelled on this one. This cover is outta sight. We are talking about
serious delight. I confess to performing a couple of laps of the office
without touching the ground, when I received the proof.
So,
what's the book about? I'm describing it as "a sexy very-near-future SF
thriller, set in the fair city of Adelaide, South Australia, in the
winter of 2048, where a couple of gorgeous guys are investigating a
series of weird murders and high-tech robberies, which lead them to a
specific location, at a certain time ... and a life and death struggle
they didn't see coming."
I've had a lot of fun "tweaking" the
present through four more decades. How will this city change and grow?
How will technology affect us? I've had a blast with this book, and I
know it shows in the narrative. The heroes are a couple of beauties,
Lee Ronson and Brendan Scott. They're a couple; and one of the
advantages of living in '48 is that the GLBT community is fully
integrated into society -- prejudice has been left behind.
Once again, I've set the book in winter. I did this with Storm
Tide too.
Two Aussie gay novels set in winter. Why?? Well, for one thing, I
prefer the winter. Also, by 2048, global warming is going to so rough,
I have a feeling our summers will be so hot, running around, full-tilt,
will be a right royal pain. Also (fact!) everyone expects an Aussie
novel to be about beaches and barbies and sweating, and I wanted (and
still do) to be different.
The book is about 105,000 words, about
250pp in paperback; and it'll be launching in eBook and paper, so
everyone should be happy here.
So -- yes, Virginia: two new Keegans in the same year, and a
possibility (no promises) of a third before Christmas.
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