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Brown Skin Girl is Hero of “BAMBOO: A Post-Apocalyptic Odyssey” – Novel by Clark Hilton Acquired by Books Illuminated
In a near tomorrow, Gen, just 16, journeys from her lonely family farm in search of a gleaming utopia filled with excitement, new friends… maybe even love. But Earth’s fury tumbles her into a brutish world beyond her imagination. Gen holds the key to saving the world. Can she save herself?
In this science fiction work, Clark Hilton paints a post-climate-change nightmare in lyrical prose. The story is set in an inundated, savage domain of rough men and flesh-hungry beasts, where unfolds a dark-skinned teen girl’s epic journey to find love in a loveless world.
From the novel: “A zephyr softly teased her hair with an epiphany — the place she called home was a lie.”
The first volume of the BAMBOO series launches November 2023 with the audiobook and follow-on volume scheduled for 2024.
“The novel is an ode to literature, and a wonderful Christmas gift for teen and new adult readers who grew up with the Hunger Games and Divergent series,” says spokesperson Art Radley, “BAMBOO makes a splendiferous stocking stuffer for the sci-fi dystopia fan in your life.”
BAMBOO is general adult speculative climate fiction with literary execution for readers of Blake Crouch, Margaret Atwood, Cormac McCarthy, and Emily St. John Mandel. The tale weaves elements of genetic engineering, environmental disaster, technological failure, loss of history, societal unrest, vain hope, and bottomless despair, amid the coming-of-age of a reluctant hero.
The story’s true source, according to the author, remains elusive, but seems to have traveled to our present day from some future society to warn of humanity’s folly. Says Hilton: “The story unfolded from a curious artifact I encountered only by chance – a tiny holographic cube, which my tech team painstakingly decrypted. What emerged was a message for the world, and the tale of a teenage girl’s remarkable odyssey. Because of its indeterminate source, I am presenting Gen’s tale as fiction.”
“A genre-melding, mind-bending journey through a brutal near future spiked with the anguished hope of new love.” – Books2Flicks.com
About the book:
BAMBOO: A Post-Apocalyptic Odyssey
by Clark Hilton
ISBN: 979-8-9886020-3-3 (hardback) | 979-8-9886020-4-0 (paperback) | 979-8-9886020-6-4 (audiobook) | LCCN: 2023921366
6×9, 384pp, with chapter illustrations
On sale starting November 13, 2023
For information and to order: ClarkHilton.com
About:
Publisher: Books Illuminated, LLC specializes in acquiring fully edited and proofed manuscripts for rapid turnaround to market. All acquisitions are selected for quality, as well as ancillary market potential: motion pictures, streaming series, animated series, music, fine art, comics, graphic novels, audiobooks, toys, games, and fashions. www.Booksilluminated.com
Author: Clark Hilton scribes award-winning words for the screen, print, and science edutainment. A business innovator, Hilton invented a tech platform to empower enterprises to transform torpid IP into new opportunities.
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‘SALIGIA’ Inverts the Seven Deadly Sins: New Book Explores Virtues Through Mythological Fantasy
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Author Tagore Almeida’s new book, “SALIGIA: The Evil Is Outside. The War Is Within.,” is now available on Amazon, according to the announcement promoting the release.
The title is not invented for the book. SALIGIA is a centuries-old Latin mnemonic device used in Christian theology to remember the seven deadly sins: Superbia (pride), Avaritia (greed), Luxuria (lust), Invidia (envy), Gula (gluttony), Ira (wrath) and Acedia (sloth). The sins themselves never appear as an explicit list in the Bible; the grouping developed within early Christian tradition, drawing on scattered biblical passages, and the acronym became a memory aid for clergy and laypeople alike. The announcement itself does not spell out this connection, though it’s central to how the book’s central conceit works.
Where the traditional mnemonic catalogs vices, Almeida’s book inverts it: according to the announcement, the story is structured as a journey through a symbolic ancestral dwelling with separate rooms, each embodying different virtues rather than sins — courage, compassion, humility, integrity, forgiveness, reverence and love. Other promotional material describes the book as a mythological fantasy following characters named Salem and Medea on a quest against the forces the title names, and credits the release to publisher The Alcove Publishers, which has described the book as blending mythology, self-reflection and mystery.
The announcement frames the project as “a fusion of mythological elements, spiritual themes, philosophical inquiry, and personal exploration,” built around the idea that readers already possess the virtues the book examines, rather than seeking them from external sources.
The book is currently listed for sale on Amazon under Almeida’s author page.
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Former Navy Serviceman Crafts Spiritual Thriller Linking Esther’s Story to Modern Crisis
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Terry Ginn has published "For Such a Time as This," a contemporary military thriller that reimagines the biblical narrative of Esther, according to the publisher, Christian Faith Publishing. The book follows a former CIA operative rescued by a Navy SEAL team and brought aboard an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf, where he pushes a Navy corpsman from the Missouri Ozarks to read the Old Testament account of Esther — and the two begin to see parallels between ancient persecution of the Jewish people and a present-day plot targeting Israel and other major cities.
Ginn grounds the story in his personal history: childhood in the Ozark hills and Navy service aboard an aircraft carrier during Vietnam, experience he has said shaped the novel’s naval detail. He has also described the Book of Esther as, in his words, the greatest "sting operation" in biblical history — a framing that underpins the book’s central comparison between the ancient narrative and its modern-day parallel plot. Ginn spent four years writing the novel, per the announcement.
"I wanted to illustrate God’s unwavering love for His people and show how Jesus’s death and resurrection makes eternal life possible for all believers," Ginn said in a statement released with the book. "By connecting Esther’s courage with contemporary challenges, I hoped to demonstrate that faith remains relevant and powerful in our modern world."
The novel centers on themes of redemption and what the publisher describes as divine providence — the concept that their encounter and purpose are ordained rather than coincidental. It was published through Christian Faith Publishing, a Christian-market publishing house, and is available now in bookstores and through Apple Books, Amazon, Google Play and Barnes & Noble.
No release date beyond the announcement was provided, and there’s no indication yet of whether the book is part of a planned series.
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