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    David Kernot lives in the mid-north of South Australia. He writes fantasy, science fiction, and horror and has over seventy short story publications throughout Australia, the US, Canada, and the UK. He released his first dark sci-fi indie novel, Gateway Through Time in 2020. It joins two novelettes and five collections of short fiction. More information can be found at his web page, http://www.davidkernot.com and his Amazon page, https://www.amazon.com/David-Kernot/e/B00CJJP82K

So, I spent the (all) weekend finishing the final edits of the Novella. I’ve also named it ‘Not Like Us’ and put it into Amazon for a 29 June 2024 release date. Here is a first look at the cover (might change ever so slightly). And the synopsis is as follows:

A war began when melting tundra uncovered an early species of horse and a flock of seabirds as old as humankind. The world forever changed and many of humankind didn’t survive, but it enabled powerful AI to find a place in the world for the Androids and Robodogs to take over. While Jenna and Maddie survived the Earth’s Holocene Extinction Event, strange men now watched them. Living in a never-ending drought, Jenna gets caught up in a high-tech war she doesn’t understand. She yearns to complete her studies and travel to Mars, to begin a new life with Maddie. Yet a sense of unease lingers. Only when these strange men at the National Institute of Science main gates, the Watchers, enter the Institute during a crisis, does Jenna discover her privileged position. She strives to discover why this is so. But when a powerful bomb explodes, Jenna is driven by survival and forced to place her trust in the strange Watchers if she and Maddie are to survive and ultimately learn what it is to be Metamorphic.

Doing the final touches to the print copy, but somehow it’s available on Amazon already for pre-order? Go figure, I might not quite be ready but the internet is waiting…