If you get any Kindle book this weekend, I strongly urge you to pick up j. scott grand’s Trash and Vaudeville. It’s free through tomorrow, and contains wit, wisdom, rawness and beauty. If you feel like getting a second Kindle book, why not try out my novel, The Icarus Void? Here’s the blurb:
The crew of the Icarus is used to high-stress situations: their ship is designed to dive into the heart of a star to collect scientific data for research. But when they discover an alien artifact hovering in low orbit of the Sun, the attempt to retrieve it pushes them to the breaking point.
Captain Gordon Markov is more than happy to oversee his final mission on board Icarus. And Doctor Stephen Straub is more than happy to be a part of the prestigious research team assigned to the ship. Testing out the Icarus’s new heatshielding is the plan, but the artifact in orbit of the Sun leads Doctor Catherine Tybalt, head of the research team, to press the captain to retrieve the object for further analysis. The interior of the artifact is hollow — a void — and should be incinerated, but it’s perfectly intact. If they can discover what makes the object naturally resilient to the radiation of the Sun, perhaps it can be used for future development in stardiving. With a risky plan in place, Captain Markov reluctantly agrees. However, the artifact emits a strange radiation that affects not just the operational systems of the ship, but also the crew itself. Once the artifact is on board, research begins, and the scientists discover the terrifying secret of the void…but when they do, the fate of the ship may have already been sealed.
The Icarus Void is an intense novel of science-fiction horror that will drag you in and pull you along until the final page.
I’m about to release another novel later this month, and am working on a kind of spiritual sequel to Icarus. If you like the bloggery here, give Icarus a try; it’s only 99 cents and works on anything that runs the Kindle app, including your shiney smartphone.
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Posted on Sunday February 5th
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About me
CK Burch is a novelist, poet, father of two, and assistant editor for ZED Presents...Publishing. Born in 1982 and floating somewhere between adulthood and immaturity, he writes science-fiction and horror, love letters to geekdom and his childhood spent growing up in the 80's. When not writing or composing, he's spending time with his little rugrats, who also walk a fine line between adorable and deportable. They take after their father. When he's not trying desperately to write in a few more chapters and ignore those lovable children who serve to remind him not to cuss so much, he's playing video games with the volume up real loud. It drowns out the sound of neighbors yelling at him to turn it down.
