We’re so pleased to have author J. Scott Coatsworth joining us today on the tour for his latest release, The Rising Tide, book two in the Liminal Sky series from DSP Publications. We’ve got an exclusive snippet from the book to share with you today, and there’s also a giveaway so be sure to check out those details at the end.
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About the Book
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Series: Liminal Sky: Book Two
Author: J. Scott Coatsworth
Publisher: DSP Publications
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Is This Book Romance?: No
Length: 380 Pages
Cover Artist: Aaron Anderson
Genres: sci-fi, near future, space opera
Pairings: Various queer characters
Keywords/Categories: gay, lesbian, transgender, future, generation ship, AI, artificial intelligence
Necessary to Read Previous Books: No, But It Doesn’t Hurt
Warnings: refers to past consensual BDSM relationship for one character
Blurb: Earth is dead.
Five years later, the remnants of humanity travel through the stars inside Forever, a living, ever-evolving, self-contained generation ship. When Eddy Tremaine and Andy Hammond find a hidden world-within-a-world under the mountains, the discovery triggers a chain of events that could fundamentally alter or extinguish life as they know it, culminate in the takeover of the world mind, and end free will for humankind.
Control the AI, control the people.
Eddy, Andy, and a handful of other unlikely heroes—people of every race and identity, and some who aren’t even human—must find the courage and ingenuity to stand against the rising tide.
Otherwise they might be living through the end days of human history.
The Excerpt
Trapped
Eddy slowed down, taking care to search out each potential hiding spot as he followed the trail. He fingered the leather whip at his waist uneasily.
Toward midafternoon, the sky started to darken as clouds slipped along the spindle. He pulled Cassie to a halt and stared at the storm clouds for a few minutes, still fascinated at how tempests formed in Forever.
It started as a thin gray line, which threaded its way along the spindle, following the world’s trade winds. The line expanded into a series of billowing clouds, darkening as they spread out toward the ground.
Eddy continued on, hurrying to beat the storm. He crested another hill, and the trail he was following went… strange. It led down to a dry gully that ran along a gray rock wall. All the grass at the base of the hill was trampled, as if the party had stopped there for a few minutes to rest. Then the trail just ended.
Eddy pulled Cassie to a halt, slipping off her saddle and tying her to an alifir tree on the hillside.
His instincts told him to stop. Something was wrong here. Something bad was about to happen, like that day in Hong Kong when he’d lost half of his men.
He slipped down the hill cautiously, looking for any sign of where the bandits might have gone. On the hillside above, Cassie neighed nervously.
The rain started, just a few drops at first. The storm had reduced the light by half.
Eddy reached the base of the hill, scrambling to review the scene before the rain washed any evidence away. There had been at least five or six people here, from the various shoe treads he found. They seemed to all lead up to the rock face.
It made no sense.
Eddy ran his hand along the rock. It was rough for a stretch, and then it smoothed out. He traced the smooth patch. It was about six feet high and four feet wide. He stood back, unsure what to make of it.
The rain grew stronger, pelting the disturbed earth.
Eddy turned to head back up the hill and stepped on something hard. He knelt to pull it out of the mud.
It was a knife. A black stone knife, beautifully crafted as if it had been molded instead of chiseled. He touched the edge. It was wickedly sharp and stained with blood.
Eddy guessed the world mind could have made it, but he hadn’t seen its like before.
He tucked it into his belt next to his long knife and decided he needed to get out of the gully before the water from the storm started flowing down the watercourse.
Eddy turned to go, but his left leg wouldn’t lift. He looked down to see that he’d gotten stuck under a root. He tried to pull his foot out, but another one curled up around his ankle. “What the hell?”
A third root wrapped itself up his right leg, and when he tried to grab it to break it off, it snaked around his arm as well.
Eddy pulled out the knife and tried to cut it off, but the effort was like trying to slice through iron.
He shoved the knife into his belt and tried his own. The sharp metal fared no better than the sharpened stone.
He tapped his loop. The rain was pelting his back now, and he was trapped in an awkward position as the roots continued to wrap their way up and around him.
“Get me, Andy,” Eddy gasped over the connection.
About the Author
Scott lives between the here and now and the what could be. Indoctrinated into fantasy and sci fi by his mother at the tender age of nine, he devoured her library. But as he grew up, he wondered where the people like him were.
He decided it was time to create the kinds of stories he couldn’t find at Waldenbooks. If there weren’t gay characters in his favorite genres, he would remake them to his own ends.
His friends say Scott’s brain works a little differently – he sees relationships between things that others miss, and gets more done in a day than most folks manage in a week. He seeks to transform traditional sci fi, fantasy, and contemporary worlds into something unexpected.
A Rainbow Award winning author, he runs Queer Sci Fi and QueeRomance Ink with his husband Mark, sites that bring queer people together to promote and celebrate fiction reflecting their own reality.
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