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Spotlight | Latency (Book 1 of The Energy Crisis Series) by Nathaniel Koszer | Featuring an Excerpt & Author Guest Post | #ScienceFiction #SciFi #GeneticEngineering #Adventure @GoddessFish @natejklol

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Book Details

Latency by Nathaniel Koszer
Series: The Energy Crisis Series #1
Published by Cinnabar Moth Publishing LLC on March 5 2024
Genres: Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
Format: eBook, Hardcover, Paperback
Pages: 330

Sera is a LO-EC, a human who gained superpowers as an unintended side effect of a biotechnological breakthrough. Her unique abilities allowed her to survive while others like her, including her parents, were exterminated by a world government fearful of their potential.

After decades of hiding, she meets Naren, another superpowered survivor who has infiltrated the ranks of the military. Together, they form a plan to unite with other surviving LO-ECs, claim vengeance against the forces who murdered their families, and ultimately stoke a worldwide rebellion against the government that wanted them dead.

The entirety of 26th century Earth's armed forces stand in their way: Soldiers equipped with terrifying weaponry, armies with electromagnetic cannons, merciless bloodthirsty androids, and Spidre, the World Leader with unnatural abilities of his own. The world brought Sera and the other LO-ECs pain and loss, and they're determined to return it in kind.

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Excerpt from Latency

In the basement of a skyscraper hundreds of stories high, a constant shaking and groaning accompanied the cacophony of breaking glass and falling bricks from the street above. A man and a woman had spent the night here, fearing those sounds meant their building was on the verge of collapse. Finally, the sun rose and the sounds gave way to stillness. The death of the noises gave life to new fears, in that now the man and woman had to take action.

“Are there any sort of supplies on the cycles?” the man asked. He was bleary-eyed, his face was flush, and even the simple task of standing up seemed to be a struggle.

“I doubt it,” the woman replied, her expression as beleaguered as his. “And you’re sure there was nothing in these boxes?” she continued, glancing around the small storage room.

The man shook his head. “Just lots of cleaning supplies. And we can’t risk going back upstairs,” he replied. “I can’t even hear the big one lumbering around, that has to mean they’re searching another building. We need to move now. We’ll worry about supplies after we get out of New Orleans, and after it feels safe.”

The woman nodded and walked over to one smaller pile of boxes. She pulled them away and the room lit up in an orange glow. The boxes had been covering a young girl, no more than six years old, whose skin had trails of orange light swirling across her arms, legs, and face.

“We need to leave, sweetie. We’re going to find our cycles in the garage, Ok?”

The little girl nodded.

“Do you remember that woman? Alison?” she asked the girl. “Do you remember where she and her friends live?”

The little girl nodded slowly, while the man’s face furrowed with skepticism.

“If anything happens to us, you go straight to her. Do you understand?”

“She can’t go to them!” the man exclaimed in an elevated whisper. “They’re a bunch of fanatics!”

“They are, but they will keep her safe!” the woman responded

Excerpt provided by the author/publisher for use in this post.

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Guest Post from the Author of Latency

My other passions outside of writing!

              Latency, my action-packed debut novel, is also hard science fiction. And while I do adore sci-fi and consume as much of it as I can, I also really enjoy the non-fictional variety of science as well. I especially enjoy paleontology, and I am an avid, albeit relatively new, amateur fossil hunter.

I always enjoyed learning about fossils, but never thought to look for one myself until I came across a video by an educational youtuber whose channel is called Atlas Pro. In the video, he goes on a hike in the wooded areas of his home, and with little effort finds fossils on a riverbank that had been deposited there over 350 million years ago. Here is the video for those that are interested:

https://youtu.be/j-UXilCm678?si=G74pQhfKd7HSUQxL

In the video, he goes on to explain that before even Pangea had formed, New York was a shallow sea teaming with all sorts of ancient marine life. That shallow sea was eventually thrust into the air by tectonic activity, forming what we now know as the Appalachian mountain range. So now in New York, there are many areas where fossils can be found, and as I learned, a whole bunch of them are very close to my home in the Bronx!

I’d like to share my fossil collection with you here, along with some of the locations where I found them. Some of these may surprise you (they sure surprised me), and I highly encourage anyone who is interested to (safely) go out and look for some fossils yourself. You would not believe how satisfying it is to find a fossil and know you are the first living thing to notice it in hundreds of millions of years.

I found my first fossils in the Bronx, in a strip of forest called Riverdale Park. There is a steam there called Alder Brook that eventually empties out into the Hudson River, and it’s one of the few areas in New York City that was never paved over, so fossils are still easily accessible. In the photos are fossilized Crinoids, a filter feeder that is related to sea stars. They had long round stalks with feathery appendages at the top.

The most shocking finds of all were when I visited Governor’s Island, a tiny, partially manmade island in between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Even more surprising is that I found the fossils on the manmade portion, near where the playgrounds are. In reading about the island’s history, it looks like the fill that was used to expand Governor’s island came from the waste rock dug out of the subway tunnels on Manhattan’s east side.

My best guess is that these fossils are from those rocks, which would have been completely inaccessible underground were it not for these two massive civil engineering projects. The fossil on the left is a Bryozoan, a microscopic animal that made colonies similar to how modern corals do today. The fossil on the right is a Brachiopod, a shelled animal that looks similar to a clam.

              My oldest fossil (over 500 million years old!) came from Ninham Mountain in upstate New York. This is what is known as a trace fossil, where the animal itself wasn’t fossilized, but evidence of its existence was. What you are looking at is essentially the undulating footprints of what scientists assume was an ancient slug-like animal. They are called Climactichnites and they might have been the first animal to ever walk on dry land!

              I hope you enjoyed reading about my adventures in paleontology, and I hope that my passion for science inspires you to read my science fiction as well!

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Giveaway!

During the tour, Nathaniel Koszer will award a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter.

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Full Tour Schedule:

March 4: Readers Roost
March 4: Long and Short Reviews
March 5: Literary Gold
March 6: Kit ‘n Kabookle
March 7: Gina Rae Mitchell
March 8: Sandra’s Book Club
March 11: Westveil Publishing
March 12: Kenyan Poet
March 12: Author Deb Bailey
March 13: Fabulous and Brunette
March 14: Andi’s Book Reviews
March 15: Archaeolibrarian – I Dig Good Books!

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