I read this  because I'm thinking to submit my next book - Captive - to a couple of publishers and I wanted to see what kind of fantasy books Escape Publishing was publishing these days. Escape is an Australian Romance ebook only publisher who churns out ebooks. I have two friends who write for them. I find their covers uninspiring generally, but this one is by far the best of theirs that I've seen and the description sounded interesting. Now to the romance book review. The science fiction aspect was certainly well done. The story was well written and engaging. A space ship aimed for earth crashes into space junk and ends up propelled into earth in the future. The culture of the earth population  is nothing like our present, and the world building is execellent. Gildchrist has created a very believable, if bleak, future earth.  The central character Sherise is not the Captain of the spcaceship, but she has a higher status than the Captain because she is the sister of the man who … [Read more...]