NEW WORLD TRILOGY (Trilogy Title)
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Authors: Olsen J. Nelson
NEW WORLD TRILOGY
(NEW WORLD TRILOGY)
Olsen Jay Nelson
Copyright © 2012 Olsen Jay Nelson
All rights reserved.
First edition: December 2012
Approx. 91K
Note from the author
It would be really appreciated if you could leave a review after finishing this book. If you like it, leaving a review is the best thing you can do to support it and to ensure that it has a chance to reach other like-minded readers. On the other hand, if you don’t like it, leaving a review may assist like-minded people to avoid it; negative reviews also contain the potential of attracting readers who don’t care about the things mentioned or think that they may be unfair or unjustified, which is sometimes better than having no reviews.
Moreover, if the negative review is particularly pathetic, a more sympathetic reader may be inspired by this to write a supportive review, thus getting the ball rolling in the right direction. In any case, the worst thing you can do for the book and my writing programme in general is to do nothing, particularly when there are no or very few reviews, and you like the trilogy and the direction I’m heading with my work.
I don’t want to depend on people I know — I don’t know that many people, anyway; I don’t want to depend on soliciting reviews from other authors — it’s a pathetic game of cat and mouse and a waste of my time, anyway; I don’t want to purchase reviews in bulk from someone on Fiverr, etc., in order to gain visibility and popularity
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— I’m more interested in building a readership over the long-term. I’ve watched a lot of titles rise because of friends, family, colleagues, puppetsocking (writing your own review via someone else’s/another account), author comrades, and fraud; some or all of this is commonly seen as necessary to get the ball rolling.
Unfortunately, only a small amount of readers seem to care about how a title they like gets to them; most seem simply to need a lot of reviews or a threshold amount present in the opening stages, perhaps ten or so. It sometimes works; but in most cases, more reviews are better than less or none, the latter being what you’ll find for most of my titles at Amazon.com at present — as of March 2013, I only have a single two star review. Nevermind. Having said that, I still think that opening with reviews is a vice. I prefer to publish my titles ‘naked’ because, eventually, if you write and publish enough and consistently, you’ll need to. Furthermore, if you publish with intent and build a strong backlist, you won’t need to worry about reviews … over the long-term. The idea of the long-term is important there…
I just want to write as much of the best SF that I can in the coming years and see what results. Hopefully, some readers will respect and support that … eventually. If you’ve been around for a while, you’ll know how gamed, corrupt and tasteless things can get. But if you haven’t, and you stick around, you’ll find out soon enough.
You’re bound to come across me again and again in the months and years ahead if you continue to use the SF sections at Amazon; I’m just getting warmed up. If you don’t like my work, then I apologise about these future annoyances. But if you do like what I write, then I hope you can support my work at some point by writing a positive review.
All the best!
Description
This title contains the complete NEW WORLD TRILOGY, which includes DAY ZERO, AGENT ZERO and NEW WORLD respectively.
Set in a near-future dystopia, DAY ZERO and AGENT ZERO trace the events leading to and following the World Revolution and the emergence of the struggle towards New World Dynamics, which is examined further in NEW WORLD.
Blog reviews
The following are excerpts of the reviews of AGENT ZERO and DAY ZERO by Aidan Taylor at aidan-taylor-editing.blogspot.com.au:
“[Agent Zero] is a very intelligent speculative fiction …”
“This is a short story of nearly 16,000 words with a chilling end, and well worth the read for anyone interested in the direction our future is currently progressing into.”
“Day Zero takes a much closer look at the quality of life in the mid-21st century and some of the terrible things to be expected should we continue down the path we are taking in the present.”
“Both books are very intelligent reads and spoken from an academic standpoint. These books are highly informative, chilling, and motivating for those of us who care to see the future change, and I am eager to read more in this series.”
“Though not for light reading, I would recommend these books to anyone active in positive change for the future, and to whoever asks what can be done to avoid a dystopian future; also to get a few good ideas as to what should be done to avoid it.”
“I would like to emphasize the difference between sci-fi and speculative fiction. Olsen Jay Nelson's work is speculative fiction, written with as much rationality as can be applied to work pertaining to the future …”
“Unlike your typical sci-fi, a lot of thought and work goes into creating speculative fiction in order for it to be as realistic as possible; I find both stories to be frighteningly realistic.”
Table Of Contents
DAY ZERO
(NEW WORLD TRILOGY)
Olsen Jay Nelson
Copyright © 2012 Olsen Jay Nelson
All rights reserved.
Third edition: June 2012
Drafted between September 2007 and April 2009.
Edited between May 2009 and June 2012.
Approx. 66K
Description
[SF context: DAY ZERO is near-future, high-tech, R&D, revolutionary, world system, dystopian radical speculative fiction with a very limited space presence.]
A jaded journalist abandons his profession in search of the truth and a means to disrupt the world system.
When Ikaros realises that there’s no future for him in his profession and that the safety of his urban enclave provides no genuine protection at all, he decides to take drastic action and dedicates himself to proceeding on his own terms, facing danger and resistance head on.
After fleeing the country with a vague plan, a raw desire for change and a lot to learn, Ikaros travels around the hostile, corrupt and deceitful world discovering the harshness of reality for himself and developing the desire to undermine the mounting antisocial ambitions of the elites.
The knowledge, resolve and opportunities he gains from his experiences propel him and his growing number of allies down a perilous path with the steadfast determination to disrupt the course of the future on a massive scale.
[DAY ZERO is either part 1 or 2 of the NEW WORLD TRILOGY. AGENT ZERO expands on a pivotal character featured minimally in DAY ZERO, and it also alludes to, and overlaps with a few events and facts found in DAY ZERO. Due to this, both titles contain spoilers of varying degrees, so it can’t be said with confidence which one should be read first. Readers will only be able to make their minds up after the fact.]
Chapter 1
