I've been waiting a long time to finally, finally be able to package my sci-fi YA Yesterday and its sequel, Tomorrow, together but that's in the works right now. The book cover and interior are all ready to go and when I'm back from vacation at the end of the month I'll be putting together a Goodreads fall giveaway. If you've already read Yesterday and want to know what happens to Freya and Garren afterwards, you can of course simply order a copy of Tomorrow. But if you happen to want the whole story all in one shot, this is it! 516 pages and a whopping 170,000 words.
And if you have no idea what I'm even talking about, here are the blurb and book trailers to clue you in:
Yesterday: The future’s
fast collapsing. In the United North America (U.N.A) of 2063
sixteen-year-old Freya’s losing her brother to a plague that threatens
to bury a world already crippled by nightmarish climate change,
terrorism, mass global migration and severe unemployment. But when Freya
wakes up seventy-eight years earlier – the dystopian future entirely
swept from her mind – her life is one of high school cliques and
crushes, new wave music and television repeats. Until she meets a boy
(Garren) she’s sure she knows yet has never met. Suddenly nothing about
her life feels right. Soon Freya and Garren are on the run from people
they believed they could trust, struggling to uncover the truth about
their lives and fighting for their very survival.
Tomorrow: The sci-fi adventure that began with Yesterday continues with an eco-thriller where no one is safe. The future's reach is long.
Tomorrow: The sci-fi adventure that began with Yesterday continues with an eco-thriller where no one is safe. The future's reach is long.
A couple of years ago I wrote a blog entry about the science and technology behind Yesterday and Tomorrow—stuff that inspired my vision of the United North America of 2063 (hint: nanomedicine and Kiva) you might find interesting if you're curious about the books too.
Last but not least I can't talk about these two books without mentioning how 80s infused they are. A sci-fi book about the future set in the 80s, uh-huh. If that sounds cool to you, and if you have BIG 80s love like I do and still get chills listening to Space Age Love Song, know all the words to Talk Talk's It's My Life and 99 Red Balloons (yeah, even Nena's original German version), this book might be your kind of thing. But don't take my word for it, here's a snippet from the Kirkus review of Yesterday:
"A vivid infusion of 1980s culture gives this near-future dystopia an offbeat, Philip K. Dick aura...The cultural homage is nostalgic fun, from Care Bears to MacGyver. But for delivering that uniquely ’80s flavor, nothing beats music. Fans of the Smiths, Depeche Mode, Scritti Politti—this one’s for you."
