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Author: Chard Pawley
Orion Rising: RRP $35.00 Published by: Nineteenth House Publishing
A New Zealand Sea Captain has written a thrilling, dystopian novel with an emotional heart, set in a reimagined New Zealand and surrounds, sixty years after a catastrophic war.
A.D. 2080
It has been sixty years since the Wars. Most of Earth is an uninhabitable wasteland. The remaining human population is crammed into Australia, New Zealand, and the ruins of the Indonesian archipelago.
In the Commonwealth, most believed the Wars to be long over. Technology has saved them from extinction. Colossal sea-rises clutter the coasts, housing entire cities. All food is supplied from vast fleets of floating farms moored at sea. But tension is rising in the northern Fringes, where for many the Wars never ended.
Onboard the Cassiopeia, second officer Orion Trayfer enjoys his job battling the waves and weather to tend the crop barges in New Zealand’s eastern waters. But his world is soon shattered by the news of a friends supposed suicide. With the help of Sam, the new trainee, Orion embarks on his own investigation, uncovering secrets that someone will go to any lengths to keep buried.
All the while, a far greater threat is looming, one which threatens to fracture the fragile peace between the Commonwealth and the Fringes.