Would this interest you? (Sci-fi...)
I've just finished writing a sci-fi novel and have to start looking at companies and options to offer it to. I haven't much of a clue how to start, except that I guess I'll just start by sending my manuscript to Penguin books at first and see what they say.
Here's a couple of the first pages of the book...what say you, does it seem like it could be interesting to an editor? You?
The book deals basically with evolution, morality and is a dystopian vision with lots of genealogy etc. references but also includes action and suspense.
Any comments welcome..
A little, scrawny boy in a tight, ragged protective suit adorned with crudely mended rips and tears stared down a dark opening in the ground, fruitlessly trying to see into its depths. He lifted his round, cracked sun visor and kneeled, squinting his dark eyes that had grown pinkish from the constant irritation from the omnipresent, powdery dust that penetrated any simple filters he could devise.
The hole had not been easy to notice for it was quite small – the opening little more than a chevron-shaped slit in the ground, but judging from the its apparent depth as suggested by the imprenetable darkness below, it seemed to be exactly what he had been looking for all day. The boy checked the surroundings to confirm the ground around was solid, noting how the opening was well hidden from any passers-by because it was directly behind a large piece of slanting, eroded gray slab of reinforced concrete jutting from the sand and only accessible if one pushed himself between it and the crooked mess of H-shaped, rusty iron girders that stood rigid towards the sky like they had intentionally piled into the ground for support. To him they had a semblance of bony fingers of an uplifted palm; a hand that lay against the slab of concrete as if in an effort to hide the crack below.
The boy glanced behind him, where a veritable forest of similar, twisted and heavily corroded iron beams and bits of concrete protruded here and there from the red sand in an eerily uniform maze, but saw no-one nearby. Again he stared into the deep black void. It had likely just recently appeared, caved in and hopefullu turned into a passage leading deeper into the ground between the girders. Or perhaps it had been missed by scavengers until now simply because it was an awkward spot to reach for an adult, which made it well worth a closer look. He lifted his home-made gloves – thick protective layers composed of leather straps and various bits of scarred plastic – beside his dirt-streaked cheeks behind the visor that refused to stay up no matter how often he pushed it up, and cried out, without averting his eyes from the find, as if suddenly afraid it might vanish into the sand unless he kept an eye trained at it:
”Guys! Here, I found something! Come on!”
Dee
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