The Andromeda Effect: Stellar Flash Book Two Coming in August
I can now happily confirm that I finished writing The Andromeda Effect. Last night was spent on formatting the ebook for Kindle and adding bookmarks to the 77 chapter links.
I also spent some time making sure there weren’t too many returns in the text, everything was left aligned, chapter headings were numerical and in the right place, and other tidy ups. The boring parts of finishing a story!
I probably wrote about 150,000 words which was then edited down to 78,000. A number of tangents were created that I might develop as short stories for the site later. Or include them in the next book.
I included as many science references as I could. It took me awhile to work out that all the math describing the 2018 size of the Andromeda Galaxy actually ends up being just 100 quadrillion kilometers wide. I thought it would be much larger. Correct me if I’m wrong. I might be out by an illion or two.
The Andromeda Effect is quite complicated. I sat here for an hour trying to summarize the multiple storylines into an attractive bitesized chunk and have kind of given up. Here’s my attempt:
Sent back 2.5 million years in time to the Andromeda Galaxy to investigate why there’s a record of them having been there, the Stellar Flash crew encounter a creature so powerful that it has taken control of the entire galaxy by thought alone.
With most of the crew unconscious, Captain Jonathan Hogart is in a race against time to defeat the plant-planet, save the galaxy, and find a way to return to 2133.
But another force is attempting to take control, to use the power of the creature from the past to take over the Milky Way Galaxy in the present. And, for this, Hogart has no defense.
How is the creature controlling an entire galaxy?
Who has the technology to transmit the creature’s power from the past to the present?
And will the Stellar Flash crew and the Space Station team be able to save both galaxies?
Find out more in The Andromeda Effect: Stellar Flash Book Two. Due out in August 2018
Approximately 78,000 words / 370 paperback pages
As a thank you for checking out my blog, I’m going to post chapters on a daily basis until the release date. I’ll add the Amazon link when it becomes available.
I’ll post them as separate posts so that I can easily link to them later. I hope you enjoy them.
Many thanks for reading.
Neil A. Hogan