KINETICS
The Energy Crisis series, Book Two
by
Nathaniel Koszer
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Publisher: Cinnabar Moth Publishing LLC
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
Page count: 257 pages
Publisher: Cinnabar Moth Publishing LLC
Publication Date: March 4, 2025
Page count: 257 pages
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SYNOPSIS:
After
stoking rebellions across the globe, six super-powered LO-ECs dealt a massive
blow to the military by disabling their worldwide communication tower. But in
doing so, they suffered grave injuries, and Spidre, the world leader, will not
let them rest. As he desperately clings to power, there is only one course of
action for the LO-ECs: hide and heal, then finally bring the fight to Spidre’s
front door.
Breaching
Spidre’s force field will require splitting up and launching simultaneous
surprise attacks all over the world. And in some of these places, the military
is the least of the LO-ECs’ concerns. They’ll also face legions of robots
controlled by an eccentric oligarch, guerilla outfits led by their own
super-powered LO-ECs, and the ever-present threat of being discovered and
bombed into dust by a world leader with nothing left to lose.
If
their power is enough to survive all of this, the reward for the LO-ECs is a
confrontation with Spidre at his compound, complete with all of the secrets and
plans he has amassed for the last twenty years.
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“We’ve got to leave now!” Naren yelled to Edgar and Symon as
he landed and set Sera down. She was shaky, but able to stand on her own. Symon
and Edgar were walking onto the field from a tunnel in the southeast corner of
the stadium. Both of them had their hands wrapped around the grips of their
elcycles, powerful electric motorcycles powered by their LO-EC energy. Walking
with them was Eric, the person who had taken up the role of leading the
rebellion in Pittsburgh.
“You’re leaving!? After what just happened!?” Eric screamed.
“That happened because we’re here!” Symon snapped back. “We
need to get out of this city, and do it loudly enough that everyone knows we’re
gone.”
“Sera told me the plan before she took off. Together we
programmed the coordinates for her garden in New Orleans,” Edgar said.
“We aren’t going to New Orleans,” Naren replied. Sera’s head
snapped up to look at him, then as she realized the issue, her head sank.
“Isn’t it the closest place that we have a safe hideout?”
Edgar asked. “They just tried to bomb us here. If we get spotted entering New
Orleans, the same thing will happen. It’d be the same no matter where we go. If
there are peacekeepers there, then it isn’t safe now.”
“So where do we go?” Sera asked, her eyes filled with tears.
“Why are you all standing around?! We have to get to Symon’s
hideout!” Nadine screamed as she and Victor set their feet on the ground. She
was happy and relieved to know she could now carry him with little effort. The
last time she had tried, it was almost a disaster.
The plan clicked into place in everyone’s head. They had
spent weeks at Symon’s hideout, an old house in an abandoned city called San
Diego. It was now their best chance at hiding out without risking the lives of
others.
“Eric, we’re going to blast right through the peacekeeper’s
front line, make sure they know we’ve left the city. Go up into the lookout and
signal to us if you see any targets we can hit,” Naren directed.
“Victor, you’ll be at the front. When we get the signal from
Eric up high, you mow the road,” Naren said. Victor nodded.
“Edgar, you’ll be on an elcycle in the middle, with Sera
riding in front of you,” Naren continued. “If anyone gets close, you know what
to do. Symon, you’ll be in the back providing suppressive fire to our rear as
we escape. Nadine and I will be up high and go wherever we’re needed.”
When Naren concluded his directions, everyone moved with
haste. Edgar and Symon re-programmed the elcycles to go to San Diego and put
them into position at the north of the field. Symon reached into one of the
cargo bags on the elcycle and pulled out the retrofitted peacekeeper armor part
that he’d had since the first major
battle in Chicago. He slid his arm into the piece of armor and when it
connected with the microtransformer in his hand, the mounted machine gun
whirred to life, ready to fire once again. Naren helped Sera onto the other
elcycle. Edgar hopped on behind her, and they were ready to go.
GUEST POST:
Please welcome Nathaniel Koszer, the author of the featured book, Kinetics, to the blog today to share what his writing day looks like.
Nathaniel Koszer: Without delving into spoiler territory, I have been told that the ending to Kinetics, my latest novel and a direct sequel to last year’s Latency, is frenetic. New developments happen one after another after another with little respite in between until, finally, it all comes together in one climactic battle. Many people, including my publisher, were surprised at the pacing. Thankfully, everyone also seems quite satisfied with the decision to write the ending in that way. Reading it back I too wondered what caused my writing style to shift like that, but a bit of self-reflection revealed why. You see, I wrote Kinetics last year during a very hectic time. With this blog post, allow me to take you through my day as a writer during what was among the most stressful periods of my life.
When I was writing the end of Kinetics, my wife was one course away from graduating with her associates degree in horticulture. That course was an internship that had a chance to become a proper job after graduation. It was an opportunity that could not be passed up, but it meant she had to be at work at 7am and needed to take our only car to get there. That meant I had to drop off our kids, ages four and one, at their respective day cares in the morning before work. The one-year-old was at a day care that was a twenty minute walk away, but was comparatively inexpensive to everything else in our neighborhood. My four-year-old’s day care was free since it was run by my wife’s school, but it was far from our house and again, I didn’t have a car available.
So, my day typically started at 4:30 am. I got myself ready, then woke up the kids at around 5:30, and we left the house by 6:30. I would walk twenty minutes with both kids to drop off the one-year-old at his day care, then another twenty minute walk followed by a 20 minute bus ride followed by another 10 minute walk to drop off the 4 year old at his day care. Then I had another fifteen minute walk alone to the subway, and an hour long train ride before finally, I was at work at 9am. It was during this hour-long commute that I got about half of my writing done using my 12-year-old, generation 1 Microsoft Surface tablet that is somehow still kicking.
To add to the stress of this, work was also quite hectic. The timeframe we are talking about here is spring, which is also the busiest season at my job. Our fiscal year ends in June, so lots of projects happen in the spring to make sure our budget gets spent before the fiscal year ends and the money is gone forever. Its lots of projects happening all at once, and they all HAVE to get done before June’s end. My longtime boss was also retiring in early July, meaning that on top of all those projects, I needed to start learning the parts of his job that would become my responsibility. As a result, I was working pretty much non-stop all day and then working again when I got home at night. Getting that overtime was great for my wallet, but terrible for my writing progress. The only time left to focus on writing was, once again, during my hour-long commute, but this time in the opposite direction.
When I got home I would typically help my equally exhausted wife get the kids ready for bed, then eat dinner, then finish up the myriad loose ends from work before going to bed and starting the whole thing over again the next day. Fortunately for all of us, life has calmed down significantly now. Also fortunately, the Kinetics was finished, and is now out for the world to see. I hope everyone enjoys reading the exciting, relentless, thrilling ending that Kinetics now has.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Nate grew up in Brooklyn NY, but now calls the Bronx home along with his wife and their sons. Nate grew up on all things sci-fi. Partly due to his chronic illness, Nate always had a special place in his heart for the X-Men, and especially the invulnerable Wolverine. This was heavy inspiration for his first novel, Latency, a superhero sci-fi story which released March 5, 2024. His second novel, Kinetics, will release on March 4, 2025.
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