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Date differential
Time for more Weekend Writing Warriors snippets. We post 8-10 sentences from one of our works every weekend.
From 3/18 through the end of the year, I’m featuring my upcoming novel: Fan the Embers. Each excerpt will begin from where the previous week’s left off. By the release date in November, you’ll be able to read the full prologue and part of the first chapter.
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He’d been in stasis for two months. “Figor date. Twenty-sixth day of the eighth month of 10.516.”
Twenty-sixth day of the eighth month of 10.516. Hugh had been on several planets in his lifetime and it never ceased to amaze him how differently the rest of the galaxy told time than Earth. Then again, Earth was a new planet, relatively speaking.
“How soon till we arrive on Figor?” Hugh yawned and winced as his stomach growled. He needed food.
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It’s 2096, Earth is relatively new to the intragalactic game, and 18-year-old Earthen Hugh MacGivens thinks he’s going to spend a few months on a distant world with his ambassador parents. Instead, he steps onto the planet to find he’s Earth’s selection for solidifying an alliance with the genderless people of Figor—by mating with a local.
Trend a’Bahn is ready for xys life to begin. Xe wants to gain an apprenticeship to a master builder and find xys mate in claiming season. Never would xe have expected an attraction to an offworlder.
While the two navigate claiming season, an undercurrent in Figor emerges. They don’t like anything non-Figorian and they hate what Hugh represents. As peaceful as Figorians are, a fire has been lit. If their beloved Empeer won’t stop such a mating from occurring, they will take care of it themselves.
Hugh came to Figor for a few months and possibly the rest of his life. If they have their say, his life ends now.
20 thoughts on “Date differential #8sunday #SciFi #NewAdult”
Good detail. Sometimes sci fi writers take things like calendars and watches for granted.
Thanks 🙂
Very detailed snippet. I enjoyed it.
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I can imagine there are always lots of differences to get used to. Looking forward to seeing his reaction to this new planet.
Can you imagine? I mean, going to a whole other country is interesting enough. Going to another planet? That would be awesome… but also very strange.
Nice use of something as taken for granted as time to establish the difference in civilizations. We’re such young upstarts!
LOL That we are 😀
Ah yes, I love it when authors pay attention to things like alternate calendars and time.
Interesting to say the least. More, I want more!Thanks for today.
Thanks, Charmaine 😀
Thanks, Christina 😀
Very interesting details in the world you’ve built. Nice snippet.
Thanks, Diane 🙂 World building is so fun 😀
I wonder if it’s possible to standardize a year? There’s nothing to say it has to be a single rotation around the sun. Food for thought! 🙂
I’ve considered the concept of a ‘galactic year’ but in my head that fits mostly for stories that take place on a spaceship since that would make more sense in ‘time keeping’. I think there are tons of ways to tell time. We humans just make things difficult 😀
An interesting snippet, now I’m thinking of time zones and jet lag. The anticipation of him arriving there is getting high, can’t wait to see these two cultures interact.
Thanks, Brittany. And yeah, that would be some tremendous jetlag.
The details you have written into the snippets you’ve shared so far, are just so great to read! Enjoying this!
Thanks, Siren 😀 Glad to hear it 🙂