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The Forevers - Fixer 13
The end of the world is coming. There is no way to stop it. The human race has a hundred years or so to save enough humans to populate the stars. They build ships from terraformed asteroids. Twelve biomes are created. These gigantic ships will spend generations in orbit around the planet earth as the scientists develop the tech required to send them to their new home planets. Many of these newly discovered planets can only be described as ‘earth like’. The inhabitants of the biomes must, over the hundreds of years required to travel to their new homes, evolve to survive. The biomes have been in orbit for three generations. The people of earth have joined together in this momentous project.
Thirteen year old Jayne Wu, like most of the children, lived in a government operated nursery. She has written the aptitude test and is about to start an apprenticeship as a technical electrical mechanical fixer. She is the youngest to have ever passed. It is her birthday and she is off to HUB 169, one of the many centers that exist to build and support the biomes in orbit around the planet.
Jayne Wu considers herself to be lucky. It is her supposed luck and her obvious intelligence that bring her to the attention of the clandestine group of politicians and scientists called ‘The Forevers’, whose desire, as is suggested by their name, is to live forever. They will stop at nothing to fulfill their plans. Jayne is an unwitting victim until she starts to fight back. She discovers power within herself that far exceeds luck and intelligence. It is a double-edged sword however, for this power makes her all the more desirable to the Forevers. One of the Forevers wants to take over Jayne’s body and claim Jayne’s new found powers for her own.
Fixer 13 is a voyage of discovery that takes Jayne from the nursery to the HUB and from the HUB to the biomes and back again. She learns of her powers and how to control them. She knows she must survive to continue her battle against those who would subvert science and political power to serve their own selfish ends.
Thirteen year old Jayne Wu, like most of the children, lived in a government operated nursery. She has written the aptitude test and is about to start an apprenticeship as a technical electrical mechanical fixer. She is the youngest to have ever passed. It is her birthday and she is off to HUB 169, one of the many centers that exist to build and support the biomes in orbit around the planet.
Jayne Wu considers herself to be lucky. It is her supposed luck and her obvious intelligence that bring her to the attention of the clandestine group of politicians and scientists called ‘The Forevers’, whose desire, as is suggested by their name, is to live forever. They will stop at nothing to fulfill their plans. Jayne is an unwitting victim until she starts to fight back. She discovers power within herself that far exceeds luck and intelligence. It is a double-edged sword however, for this power makes her all the more desirable to the Forevers. One of the Forevers wants to take over Jayne’s body and claim Jayne’s new found powers for her own.
Fixer 13 is a voyage of discovery that takes Jayne from the nursery to the HUB and from the HUB to the biomes and back again. She learns of her powers and how to control them. She knows she must survive to continue her battle against those who would subvert science and political power to serve their own selfish ends.
358 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 6, 2013
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