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Ordinary”! For other stops on his
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The End of Ordinary
by Edward Ashton
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GENRE: Science Fiction
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BLURB:
Drew
Bergen is an Engineer. He builds living things, one gene at a time. He's also
kind of a doofus. Six years after the Stupid War -- a bloody, inconclusive
clash between the Engineered and the UnAltered -- that's a dangerous
combination. Hannah is Drew's greatest project, modified in utero to be just a
bit better at running than most humans. She’s also his daughter. Her plan for
high school is simple: lay low and run fast. Unfortunately for Hannah, her
cross-country team has other plans.
Jordan
is just an ordinary Homo-Sap. But don’t let that fool you -- he’s also one of
the richest kids at Briarwood, and even though there isn’t a single part of him
that’s been engineered, someone has it out for him.
Drew
thinks he’s working to develop a spiffy new strain of corn, but Hannah and her
classmates disagree. They think he's cooking up the end of the world. When one
of Drew's team members disappears, he begins to suspect that they might be
right. Soon they're all in far over their heads, with corporate goons and
government operatives hunting them, and millions of lives in the balance.
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EXCERPT TWO:
“Seriously?”
Micah said. “This is the lair?”
“I
told you,” Marta said. “It’s not a lair. It’s a juice bar.”
We
were on the second floor, at the end of what seemed at the time like miles of
corridors and columns and arches and lots and lots of locked doors. The door in
front of us, though, was unlocked, and slightly ajar.
“You’re
sure he’s here?” Micah asked. “I mean, shouldn’t he be in a darkened study or
something?”
Marta
pressed her fingers to her eyes.
“Right.
With his henchmen. Should he be smoking a cigar?”
“Do
you have a cat?”
They
both turned to look at me.
“A
cat?”
“Yeah,”
I said. “That’s better than a cigar. He should be sitting in a big, leather
easy chair, petting a cat.”
“No,”
Marta said. “We do not have a cat. We also don’t have any leather easy chairs,
as far as I know. Dad’s probably sitting at the bar, reading some crappy sci-fi
novel on his tablet and drinking a smoothie.”
Micah
shook his head.
“That’s
not gonna work for me.”
Marta
turned to look at him.
“Not
gonna work for you?”
“Right,”
Micah said. “I can’t beat a guy up while he’s drinking a smoothie.”
“No
beating,” I said. “I thought we were clear on that.”
“Right.
Right.”
“Look,”
Marta said. “We’re just…”
“Marta?”
We
all turned to look at the door.
“Yes,
Daddy?”
“Would
you like to introduce me to your friends?”
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GUEST POST:
Five Reasons You Should Read The End of Ordinary
1.
The End of Ordinary is a fast, fun read. It’s set in the near future, which in
this book is not entirely a spooky dystopia. Things are actually mostly okay in
late twenty-first century upstate New York, despite the occasional super-plague
or near-apocalyptic civil war. Drew Bergen works for Bioteka, a custom genetic
engineering shop. His daughter Hannah is a fourteen-year-old running phenom who
got her awesome lung capacity from Bioteka, and her questionable social skills
from her dad.
Hannah
doesn’t have a ton of friends, so when she meets Devon Morgan at a high school
cross-country meet, she’s willing to overlook a few minor flaws—including that
Devon’s family is on a government watch list, she’s palling around with what is
proba-bly an illegal A.I., and she’s convinced that Hannah’s dad is caught up
in a scheme to end the simmering hostility toward the genetically modified
elite by wiping the world clean of the unmodified. Hannah and Devon set out to
learn whether there's more to Drew’s work than blight-resistant corn, and
hilarity ensues.
2.
The End of Ordinary is set in the same world as my first novel, Three Days in
April, but it is not a sequel. So, while there are some fun Easter eggs in
there for you if you’ve read the earlier book, The End of Ordinary is a
stand-alone story. That means that while you definitely should buy both books
(as many copies of each as your bookshelves will hold, honestly) you don’t need
to have read Three Days to enjoy The End of Ordinary.
3.
The End of Ordinary contains the phrase “Slutty Zombie Apocalypse.” You really
can't go wrong with that.
4.
The End of Ordinary is set in the future, but it’s not rayguns-and-rocketships
sci-fi. It deals with serious topics, but it doesn’t take itself too seriously.
It’s funny, but it’s not farcical. Also, by the time you get to the end of The
End of Ordinary, you’ll know how a retrovirus works. How many novels can say
that?
5. The End of Ordinary is
an integral part of my plan to not end my days eating beans and rice cooked
over a garbage fire. Wouldn’t you like to help move that plan along?
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AUTHOR BIO:
Edward Ashton lives
with his adorably mopey dog, his inordinately patient wife, and a steadily
diminishing number of daughters in Rochester, New York, where he studies new
cancer therapies by day, and writes about the awful things his research may
lead to by night. He is the author of Three Days in April, as well as several
dozen short stories which have appeared in venues ranging from the newsletter
of an Italian sausage company to Louisiana Literature and Escape Pod.
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