The Marsco Saga
I have been working on a speculative science fiction series, The Marsco Saga, for several years. The first two novels, The Marsco Dissident and Marsco Triumphant, should be available soon as e-book downloads via Amazon. They tell the story of a post-nationhood world where a single mega-corporation, Marsco, controls everything via its absolute control of computer usage. (Imagine a world run by a merged Microsoft, Halliburton, and Blackwater, the provider of armed mercenaries.) Marsco Terminus, Book III, tells of the final years of this situation. The Ascendancy of Marsco, Book IV, is the prequel to the nightmare world of Marsco. Books III and IV will also be available for download but at a later date.
In this world, Marsco has co-opted science and technology to insure its survival. Marsco uses its raw power to control and dictate who and what it wants. All humans exist with Marsco touching their lives in some way. Into this roiling turmoil, I throw characters who devote themselves to Marsco’s power, who question it, who violently oppose it. Besides writing and teaching, I enjoy reading fiction ranging from Jane Austen to Pat Barker to Patrick O’Brien to Émile Zola. I also read widely in history: the Marsco world is based loosely on the Roman and British Empires. |
