Strange Animal Publications is proud to announce the imminent release of Liminal Spaces: A Robotic Romance,  a serialized Sci-fi novel by Jeremy Puma, illustrated by Tim Boucher!

For longer than anyone can remember, the world has been ravaged by a volatile climate. Long ago, the wealthy retreated to the Oceanopoli– enormous floating cities—consigning the underprivileged to an uncertain future on a drastically altered planet.

Centuries before our tale, an IBM/Kuko Corporation Joint Initiative launches a massive orbital server farm, OrbServ, which develops its own intelligence and becomes the single “brain” for all of Earth’s machines, including the now ubiquitous robots who share the planet with the humans.

Franklin, a Second Generation free robot who formerly worked on an Oceanopolis, spends his days as a courier, delivering odds and ends for the impoverished citizens of his town and saving up to repair a damaged arm. While fulfilling his duties, Franklin finds himself– quite irrationally– falling in love with Annabel Leigh, the human daughter of a local lay-about. One typically hot afternoon, he decides to ask for her hand in marriage. But, this isn’t some clichéd robot love story….

What happens next will change everything!

Ostensibly science fiction in the vein of Stanislaw Lem but equally influenced by the works of Latin American “magical realists” Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, Liminal Space follows the adventures of Franklin as he navigates a “reality” somewhere between the worlds of Philip K. Dick, Jacques Vallee and Charles Fort….

Liminal Spaces will be released in $0.99 installments for Amazon Kindle.

Don’t have a Kindle? Get the free app for your iPad/iPhone/other mobile device at http://www.amazon.com/gp/digital/fiona/kcp-landing-page?ie=UTF8&ref_=klp_f_win).

Prefer the feel of good, old-fashioned “paper”? After every seven installments, the series will be released in paperback form. FUN!

*Don’t forget: if you’re a supporter of Strange Animal Publications’ original funding campaign, you get a free copy! Let us know if you’d prefer your copies electronically, or would prefer to wait for each paperback. 

We’re just putting the last few details on the first installment, and will announce its release shortly. Thanks for reading!