The year is 140 C.E. ("Cold Earth"). 140 years after nuclear fallout and Earth inhabitability, two factions of humans have endured. One, a scientific and efficient Utopia, which thrives underground, has sent a scouting mission outside to test Earth's recovery. The other, tough descendants of the ground survivors, run a military style colony of their own. Neither knows the other exists. Until today.
My friend wrote a novel! It's not actually published yet, so I worked through my crippling discomfort of reading a digital copy. Reading on screens tires my eyes, so it took forever to finish this, but I'm glad I did. It's an interesting story, something different and unlike anything within the genre I've read before. It's a first, unedited edition so of course there is room for some improvements, but there is definitely potential here. I hope it one day does get published so more people can enjoy it. Well done, Ashley! :-)