Exit, Pursued by a Bee by Geoff Nelder
winner of second place out of over 160 nominations in the P&E readers' poll 2008
Under Glastonbury Tor, during the famous rock festival, something stirs. Published as an ebook and paperback by Double Dragon Publishing.
UK Kindle ebook £3 US Kindle under $5
paperback the cost of a trifle more
Available too from Amazon.com
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ISBN-13: 978-1-55404-594-5
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Exit, Pursued by a Bee is driven by a heroine-astronaut, involves a Palaeolithic mongrel called Kur, Glastonbury Festival chaos, steamy sex in space, a mean-momma loose-cannon journalist and an out-of-control general who'd fix anything by nuking it. They are all involved in the attempt to overcome time-quake calamities created when alien artifacts depart from Earth, oblivious to the chaos they leave behind.
Suppose the smooth passing of time on Earth is chaotic in the rest of the Universe. Perhaps Earth time is kept continuous by something that absorbs time decoherences - not for much longer. The Earth orbits the sun at 18 miles per second. If the mountain in front of you is thrown back a second, it slips 18 miles. Imagine such time-quakes happening all over the world.
As time-quakes cause chaos, a Mars mission is diverted to chase the departing time absorbing spheres. Arguing against hawkish military generals on Earth, the man and woman crew discover a means to communicate with the spheres, but will they listen and return to Earth?
Excerpts:
The introduction is on the DDP
page and another excerpt, one of my favourites, is where Oqmar, 20,000
years in the past meets Blake from the future here
5 minute excerpt from Chapter 11 used for short readings
Geoff Nelder inhabits science fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood best selling sf author of the Arabesk Mysteries & others - BSFA Best Novel winner and shortlisted Arthur C Clarke Award