Things are looking up for Captain June Vereeth. With friends, she escaped the madness of icy P-75. She brought a couple trophies (prisoners of war) back from the outlaw world of Shen-Zinkh. Now she’s even having fun climbing the picturesque mountains of Zycarsus with a new male friend, smiling in the sunshine…
Well, not exactly. She and this new friend (nicknamed Hulk) and 30 other soldiers are hauling themselves up 3000 feet into a maddening fogged-in world. They’re looking for a downed freighter. They’re lost, because they can’t use anything electronic and nobody has a map. And those pesky Mitasterites will have some competition for deadliest foe in this abandoned world.
First draft done, coffee chugged, I’m now editing Destruction (love my cheery title). And it’s going…well, it’s going. To once-again begin the process of editing a book is to wrestle with a bunch of questions.
Is this what I wanted to write?
Is this story good enough?
Do the right people die (it’s about war) or lose their way?
Am I accurately rendering Vereeth and her flaws and strengths?
Can this heroine reconcile the terrible cost of armed conflict, when she’s often stuck with the most difficult choices?
After two years of notes (the opening chunk came to mind before I was done with ‘Endgame‘) do I have the product I need to have?
Am I a good-enough writer for this?
Justin Edison’s three available books on a shelf
Time will tell.
Maybe.
