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Prometheus Found
A post-technology retelling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - A Modern Prometheus. This is not a horror story.
The time of cities has passed. The Long War left only fragmented villages linked by the travelling Trader families.
Edgar Henge is an outcast. Despised for his profession, tolerated for the necessities that only he can bring to the village. He walks a line on the edge of the Lore, until a discovery in his landfill site pushes him far, far beyond.
Prometheus Found explores an evolving relationship between creator and created. Throughout the book we come to understand their characters and motivations. As in Shelley's seminal work, the question of who is the true monster is ambiguous, with candidates beyond the central characters.
The time of cities has passed. The Long War left only fragmented villages linked by the travelling Trader families.
Edgar Henge is an outcast. Despised for his profession, tolerated for the necessities that only he can bring to the village. He walks a line on the edge of the Lore, until a discovery in his landfill site pushes him far, far beyond.
Prometheus Found explores an evolving relationship between creator and created. Throughout the book we come to understand their characters and motivations. As in Shelley's seminal work, the question of who is the true monster is ambiguous, with candidates beyond the central characters.
234 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 6, 2024
About the author
Peter Maloy
4 books2 followersBusy packing as many experiences into one life as is humanly possible.
Started out moving people from all walks of life across the United Kingdom and Europe, went on to make approach path landing lights in case the Space Shuttle ever landed in Spain. Wrote software for prototypes of GameBoy Advance, and very early GPS devices.
If all goes to plan, heading to the fourth country I'll have lived in towards the end of 2023.
I've met ambassadors, aristocracy, and rather menacing East End... gentlemen. It has been a blast!
Started out moving people from all walks of life across the United Kingdom and Europe, went on to make approach path landing lights in case the Space Shuttle ever landed in Spain. Wrote software for prototypes of GameBoy Advance, and very early GPS devices.
If all goes to plan, heading to the fourth country I'll have lived in towards the end of 2023.
I've met ambassadors, aristocracy, and rather menacing East End... gentlemen. It has been a blast!
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November 7, 2024
Drawing from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Prometheus Found tells a story set in an apocalyptic future that examines humanity's atavistic nature. Full of adventure, societal conflict, and suspicion of the unknown, this is Peter's best work yet. Captivating throughout, this novel follows Henge, a voluntary outcast, as he navigates a working relationship with the nearby townsfolk, until one day he discovers something that will change his life and his place in society forever.
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