Wreck of the Nebula Dream – Titanic Re-Imagined by VERONICA SCOTT
“Thrilling sci-fi action will have you enjoying this take on the Titanic story. … The twist on the story makes the time honored tale fresh and delightful. I found the characters to be lovable and strong when it comes down to do or die. This is an easy read and you’ll be thinking about it for days after you read it.“
The Story:
Traveling unexpectedly aboard the luxury liner Nebula Dream on its maiden voyage across the galaxy, Sectors Special Forces Captain Nick Jameson is ready for ten relaxing days, and hoping to forget his last disastrous mission behind enemy lines. He figures he’ll gamble at the casino, take in the shows, maybe even have a shipboard fling with Mara Lyrae, the beautiful but reserved businesswoman he meets.
All his plans vaporize when the ship suffers a wreck of Titanic proportions. Captain and crew abandon ship, leaving the 8000 passengers stranded without enough lifeboats and drifting unarmed in enemy territory. Aided by Mara, Nick must find a way off the doomed ship for himself and several other innocent people before deadly enemy forces reach them or the ship’s malfunctioning engines finish ticking down to self destruction.
But can Nick conquer the demons from his past that tell him he’ll fail these innocent people just as he failed to save his Special Forces team? Will he outpace his own doubts to win this vital race against time?
Veronica Scott sez: My newly published novel Wreck of the Nebula Dream is a loose re-imagining of the Titanic disaster, which occurred 100 years ago this April. Growing up, I was fascinated by the events surrounding the sinking of the Titanic (and this was wayyyy before the James Cameron movie), because my grandfather always said he had a relative on board – a Second Class passenger who survived and rescued a Steerage baby, which made me feel closer to the events. This story had profound influence on me as a child.
Inevitably, given the family legend, I decided to write a novel loosely inspired by the events of Titanic . Since I have a science fiction kind of mind, I set the story in the far future, out among the stars, using a luxury space liner rather than an ocean going cruise ship. In the beginning I naively thought I’d stick rather closely to the historical events of the Titanic’s last few hours, reinterpreted for the spaceship and her passengers. Well, as any writer will probably tell you, the characters have minds of their own and they grab the plot and guide it in unexpected directions – LOL!
I made my ship Nebula Dream the newest, biggest, most state of the art space liner, complete with new engines, a crew that hadn’t sailed together before, pressure from the front office to set speed records…and set her loose in the spacelanes to meet her Fate.
So there I was with my Sectors Special Forces hero Nick and my no nonsense businesswoman heroine Mara, and the assorted other characters who make up their small group of hopeful survivors…and the story took turns that have nothing to do with how the Titanic sank. I HOPE you’ll find the account of their struggle exciting. I put in respectful nods to the Titanic events wherever I could….
As my hero says: “Disasters in space tend to be abrupt, over with in a violent moment. Whatever had happened to the Nebula Dream, it’s nothing short of amazing we aren’t dead already. Can’t push luck too far.” So my little band of people soon realize they are stuck on this vessel drifting in space, without enough lifeboats and no rescue ship coming any time soon, racing against the clock and other forces, hoping to escape with their lives…
Available from Amazon for the kindle and Barnes & Noble for the Nook NOW! Special 99 cent sale! You can find Veronica at her blog http://veronicascott.wordpress.com/ or on twitter @vscotttheauthor
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