The Sity Part 1: Awakening

by Curran Geist

Deep below the ground, an electric prod crackles--and a boy screams. The months of torture and enslavement have shredded his memory. But with each strike, something else awakens...something seeking vengeance.

High above the ground, an electric storm rages--and a girl huddles in shadows. Carina is haunted by strange visions and the symbols imprinted on her skin. She will stop at nothing to discover her true identity.

In this tale of survival, two teenagers fight back against the oppression of an alien race called the Kuljik. Dangers and unspeakable horrors lie around every corner of the Sity, a violent metropolis where enslaved humans are abused for the pleasure of the aliens. Victor and Carina are both blessed with mysterious supernatural powers and represent humanity’s best hope to escape. Will their personal demons cause them to unravel as they forge the destiny of their futures?

This is "Part One" of the full book THE SITY.

Praise for THE
"The world that Geist has created felt so real and the characters so unforgettable that you have no choice but to become obsessed with the Sity and its inhabitants."

"If you don’t get chills reading it, I don’t want to know what will."

"The Sity by Curran Geist is an outstanding futuristic scifi thriller oozing with style and menace."

"I found that with this book, you run the full gambit of emotions. You feel sorrow for the pain and suffering they are going through. You have anger with how the aliens are treating the humans. You feel pride in how the humans start to figure out what is going on and how to work together."

132 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 20, 2017

About the author

Curran Geist is the warped brain behind The Sity series. The inspiration for his books of extraterrestrial terror all began in the quaint town of Schwenksville, PA where he grew up. Curran often lived within books, and his vibrant imagination sucked him into nightmarish realms beyond the tiny town where he was raised.

For much of his life, Curran Geist has dedicated himself toward human rights work. He was honored to serve in AmeriCorps and also to work for Museum of Tolerance New York, Simon Wiesenthal Center, where he lead trainings to combat bigotry and discrimination. Human rights issues are still very important to Curran. In writing The Sity and Only the Cold Remains, Curran has merged his love of science fiction and horror genres with his belief in tackling social injustices. His novels paint a dystopian and post-apocalyptic landscape that mirrors many modern day social issues, including: the exploitation of children, sexual slavery, and cruelty towards animals.

Curran Geist is grateful to be a part of the At Hell's Gate horror anthology series. All proceeds from these books support The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which helps wounded soldiers and their families.

Curran currently lives in New Jersey with his wife and newborn daughter.

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Reviews

[Alan Hardy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mesmerizing opening pages to this story, a tormented and tortured human boy imprisoned in a cage and menaced by green creatures. Only he's the one who is the alien... Some very graphic, and incisively atmospheric writing, direct and evocative at the same time, constructing an authentic, plausible and tightly-drawn environment and characters within it. The boy, Victor, and a female, Carina, are drugged and abused exhibits for aliens (the Kuljik) to come and jeer at, as at a circus or fun-show. Then the teenage boy escapes from his captor... Victor and Carina, suppressed yet defiant, search for freedom and a rediscovered identity amidst the physical and mental torture of their existences in the nightmarish metropolis of Sity where the humans are the subjugated and the aliens are the masters. A powerful story, vivid, realistic and graphically expressed.