KINETICS
Nathaniel Koszer
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GENRE: SciFi
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BLURB:
After
stoking rebellions across the globe, six super-powered LO-ECs dealt a massive
blow to the military by disabling their worldwide communication tower. But in
doing so, they suffered grave injuries, and Spidre, the world leader, will not
let them rest. As he desperately clings to power, there is only one course of
action for the LO-ECs: hide and heal, then finally bring the fight to Spidre’s
front door.
Breaching
Spidre’s force field will require splitting up and launching simultaneous
surprise attacks all over the world. And in some of these places, the military
is the least of the LO-ECs’ concerns. They’ll also face legions of robots
controlled by an eccentric oligarch, guerilla outfits led by their own
super-powered LO-ECs, and the ever-present threat of being discovered and
bombed into dust by a world leader with nothing left to lose.
If
their power is enough to survive all of this, the reward for the LO-ECs is a
confrontation with Spidre at his compound, complete with all of the secrets and
plans he has amassed for the last twenty years.
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Excerpt
Two:
“We’ve got to leave now!” Naren yelled to Edgar and Symon as
he landed and set Sera down. She was shaky, but able to stand on her own. Symon
and Edgar were walking onto the field from a tunnel in the southeast corner of
the stadium. Both of them had their hands wrapped around the grips of their
elcycles, powerful electric motorcycles powered by their LO-EC energy. Walking
with them was Eric, the person who had taken up the role of leading the
rebellion in Pittsburgh.
“You’re leaving!? After what just happened!?” Eric screamed.
“That happened because we’re here!” Symon snapped back. “We
need to get out of this city, and do it loudly enough that everyone knows we’re
gone.”
“Sera told me the plan before she took off. Together we
programmed the coordinates for her garden in New Orleans,” Edgar said.
“We aren’t going to New Orleans,” Naren replied. Sera’s head
snapped up to look at him, then as she realized the issue, her head sank.
“Isn’t it the closest place that we have a safe hideout?”
Edgar asked. “They just tried to bomb us here. If we get spotted entering New
Orleans, the same thing will happen. It’d be the same no matter where we go. If
there are peacekeepers there, then it isn’t safe now.”
“So where do we go?” Sera asked, her eyes filled with tears.
“Why are you all standing around?! We have to get to Symon’s
hideout!” Nadine screamed as she and Victor set their feet on the ground. She
was happy and relieved to know she could now carry him with little effort. The
last time she had tried, it was almost a disaster.
The plan clicked into place in everyone’s head. They had
spent weeks at Symon’s hideout, an old house in an abandoned city called San
Diego. It was now their best chance at hiding out without risking the lives of
others.
“Eric, we’re going to blast right through the peacekeeper’s
front line, make sure they know we’ve left the city. Go up into the lookout and
signal to us if you see any targets we can hit,” Naren directed.
“Victor, you’ll be at the front. When we get the signal from
Eric up high, you mow the road,” Naren said. Victor nodded.
“Edgar, you’ll be on an elcycle in the middle, with Sera
riding in front of you,” Naren continued. “If anyone gets close, you know what
to do. Symon, you’ll be in the back providing suppressive fire to our rear as
we escape. Nadine and I will be up high and go wherever we’re needed.”
When Naren concluded his directions, everyone moved with
haste. Edgar and Symon re-programmed the elcycles to go to San Diego and put
them into position at the north of the field. Symon reached into one of the
cargo bags on the elcycle and pulled out the retrofitted peacekeeper armor part
that he’d had since the first major
battle in Chicago. He slid his arm into the piece of armor and when it
connected with the microtransformer in his hand, the mounted machine gun
whirred to life, ready to fire once again. Naren helped Sera onto the other
elcycle. Edgar hopped on behind her, and they were ready to go.
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GUEST POST
The pieces
I enjoy writing the most are what we call “spotlight” articles. There are folks
around the city, working diligently to keep our vehicles running, who often
don’t get the credit or attention they deserve. Our spotlight series aims to
change that. One notable article from this past year shined a light on two
brothers who have each worked as mechanics in the City for over 30 years. They
not only kept vehicles at FDNY and the Parks department running, but they
enacted or participated in key initiatives that made other City employees
safer. Here is that article: https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dcas/downloads/pdf/fleet/nyc-fleet-newsletter-473-2024-10-11-the-murphy-brothers.pdf
Spotlight
articles also tend to come out during holidays that celebrate a particular
group. One such opportunity happened in November, when Veterans Day is
celebrated in the United States. We have a lot of veterans among City staff,
and I was able to write about three such individuals who both served the
country proudly and then continued in public service on the municipal level.
This one was especially close to my heart as I was able to spotlight one of my
direct coworkers. You can read that article here:
https://www.nyc.gov/assets/dcas/downloads/pdf/fleet/nyc-fleet-newsletter-477-2024-11-14.pdf
Finally,
spotlight articles can serve to inform the public about important initiatives,
while also acknowledging the folks who are moving those initiatives forward.
One such initiative is the electrification of the City’s vehicles. The entire
28,000 vehicle fleet is required by law to be fully electric by 2038, and one
of the hardest places to electrify is at the Department of Sanitation. DSNY’s
regular operation already uses their trucking fleet heavily, but in winter
months they also plow, meaning an electric truck would have to be powerful
enough to push thousands of pounds of snow for hours on end without charging.
It is a difficult and complex transition, but it is progressing thanks to the
work of certain dedicated individuals, such as the person we spotlighted here:
I hope
you all enjoyed this window into my “non-fiction” writing, and I hope it paints
a better picture for how I developed as a writer. If you liked these articles,
you will certainly like Kinetics and its prequel Latency, which are both
available for purchase now.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Nate
grew up in Brooklyn NY, but now calls the Bronx home along with his wife and
their sons. Nate grew up on all things sci-fi. Partly due to his chronic
illness, Nate always had a special place in his heart for the X-Men, and
especially the invulnerable Wolverine. This was heavy inspiration for his first
novel, Latency a superhero sci-fi story which released March 5, 2024. His
second novel, Kinetics, will release on March 4, 2025.
Website:
https://natekoszer.com/
BlueSky:
https://bsky.app/profile/natejklol.bsky.social
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/natejklol
https://www.amazon.com/Kinetics-Nathaniel-Koszer-ebook/dp/B0DP3JWQZF/ref=sr_1_1
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GIVEAWAY
Nathaniel
Koszer will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner.
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