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Guest Post by Megan O’RussellHow much of our humanity actually has to do with our DNA? How much of it has to do with the world we’ve created?Defining “human being” is a matter of genetics, how we’ve evolved, the chemicals that make up our insides and build our bodies. There is no question in our world as to what being human means. But what if someone challenged your claim of being human? What if there was something more important than DNA, such as the human experience?Art, family, love: they mold who we are as people. The ability to learn and pass on that knowledge has helped the human race to create amazing things. We’ve built cities, cured diseases, and traveled to the moon!So what’s more important: the things that humans are capable of or genetics?In Nola Kent’s world, that question is one of life and death.
Two worlds...one glass wall...no turning back.
The human race has been divided. The chosen few live in the safety of the domes, watching through their glass walls as those left on the outside suffer and die. But desperation has brought invention, and new drugs have given the outsiders the strength to roam the poisoned night unafraid – but it comes at a price.
Seventeen-year-old Nola Kent has spent her life in the domes, being trained to protect her little piece of the world that has been chosen to survive. The mission of the domes is to preserve the human race, not to help the sick and starving. But when outsider Kieran Wynne begs for Nola’s help in saving an innocent life, she is drawn into a world of darkness and danger. The suffering on the other side of the glass is beyond anything Nola had imagined, and turning her back on the outside world to return to the safety of the domes may be more than she can stand. Even when her home is threatened by the very people Nola wants to help.
In the dangerous outside world, drugs have created a new group able to survive the toxins that have driven the Domers to lock themselves away. But those drugs alter them at a genetic level, giving them a super human ability to heal, resistance to disease, and strength beyond anything possible for a normal human. To save their lives they have become other. They’ve become vampires. The Domers hate and fear these creatures for changing themselves at the most basic level, regardless of whether or not it was their only chance for survival.But the Domers have forgotten what it means to be truly human. They’ve abandoned the less fortunate to death and pain, rid themselves of art in favor of science, and locked themselves away from the world that gives life meaning.Human or humanity. The two no longer co-exist.So which is more important: to be human or to maintain humanity?At the end of the world, which path would you choose?
By Megan O'Russell
Girl of Glass, Book 1
Publisher: Fiery Seas
Publishing, LLC.
Release Date: December 6,
2016
Genre: Young Adult
Length: 240 Pages
ISBN: 9781946143105
ASIN: B01N76WTV7
About
the book:
Two worlds...one glass wall...no turning back.
The human race has been divided. The chosen few live in the safety
of the domes, watching through their glass walls as those left on the outside
suffer and die. But desperation has brought invention, and new drugs have given
the outsiders the strength to roam the poisoned night unafraid – but it comes
at a price.
Seventeen-year-old Nola Kent has spent her life in the domes,
being trained to protect her little piece of the world that has been chosen to
survive. The mission of the domes is to preserve the human race, not to help
the sick and starving. But when outsider Kieran Wynne begs for Nola’s help in
saving an innocent life, she is drawn into a world of darkness and danger. The
suffering on the other side of the glass is beyond anything Nola had imagined,
and turning her back on the outside world to return to the safety of the domes
may be more than she can stand. Even when her home is threatened by the very
people Nola wants to help.
About the Author:
Megan O’Russell is the author of the young adult
fantasy series The Tethering, and Nuttycracker Sweet, a Christmas novella.
Megan’s short stories can also be found in several anthologies, including
Athena’s Daughters 2, featuring women in speculative fiction.
Megan is a
professional performer who has spent time on stages across the country and is
the lyrist for Second Chances: The Thrift Shop Musical, which received it’s
world premiere in 2015. When not on stage or behind a computer, Megan can
usually be found playing her ukulele or climbing a mountain with her fantastic
husband.
Website: https://meganorussell.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ORussellauthor
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MeganORussell
Sounds like a really interesting read and pertinent to today's world.
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