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METROPOLIS
Steven Wilson
I would describe my style as a combination of Stephen King, Michael Crichton and Edgar Allen Poe. A weird combination that still flows to tell a really good story. At times it can be poetic or narrative and contains passages that will make a real page-turner. This story has it’s roots in horror and science fiction and since it was Edgar Allen Poe who came up with the first detective story. It fits right in with the kind of story that he might like if he were still alive and walking at 201 years old and a lot older years later depending on who’s visiting his graveyard on his birthday. Right? The story follows science fiction tradition in its twist and turns to examine technology for the future that could be used for CSI type operations with homicide capabilities on the spot.
The story takes place in the year 2054, Washington, D.C.
A detective Craig Randall investigates the disappearance of a killer’s brain ten thousand miles below D.C. from a local hospital and finds him linked to a pharmaceutical company involved in cloning whose executive clientele is terminated by a hit-man.
He is framed for murder and forced to go underground beneath D.C. deep in the heart of the criminal district getting assistance from one of his sleazy criminal friends immediately descending into a secret world. Where a city near the Earth’s core is found.
He discovers a renegade professor who has violated his government contract for bio-chemical technology for the military and is about to start a clone and android war and the only way to stop him before something else goes wrong. Is to return to the surface with the evidence that he needs to clear his name.
I would describe my style as a combination of Stephen King, Michael Crichton and Edgar Allen Poe. A weird combination that still flows to tell a really good story. At times it can be poetic or narrative and contains passages that will make a real page-turner. This story has it’s roots in horror and science fiction and since it was Edgar Allen Poe who came up with the first detective story. It fits right in with the kind of story that he might like if he were still alive and walking at 201 years old and a lot older years later depending on who’s visiting his graveyard on his birthday. Right? The story follows science fiction tradition in its twist and turns to examine technology for the future that could be used for CSI type operations with homicide capabilities on the spot.
The story takes place in the year 2054, Washington, D.C.
A detective Craig Randall investigates the disappearance of a killer’s brain ten thousand miles below D.C. from a local hospital and finds him linked to a pharmaceutical company involved in cloning whose executive clientele is terminated by a hit-man.
He is framed for murder and forced to go underground beneath D.C. deep in the heart of the criminal district getting assistance from one of his sleazy criminal friends immediately descending into a secret world. Where a city near the Earth’s core is found.
He discovers a renegade professor who has violated his government contract for bio-chemical technology for the military and is about to start a clone and android war and the only way to stop him before something else goes wrong. Is to return to the surface with the evidence that he needs to clear his name.
419 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 1, 2011
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