Boralene

by Nathan Jones

He's never wanted for anything in life.

Except someone to share it with.

It took nearly dying for Tycho to realize he's never felt truly alive. He lives in a society where humanity has overcome all obstacles, both external and social. In the last hundred thousand years humans have spread across the universe, living solitary lives on vast estates with robotic companions to cater to their every need or want. He can travel anywhere within hours, witness the wonders of the cosmos for himself. Or he can enter the full immersion of the allnet that holds all the accumulated knowledge of tens of thousands of years and lets him live lifetimes on created virtual game worlds with other allnet users.

The only thing missing in his life is real life contact with other humans. It's a lack he has barely even noticed before, but now feels deeply. So he begins his search for someone willing to meet in person, only to discover that real humans aren't as easy to get along with as his familiar companions.

Are his efforts worth the uncertainty and possibility of pain?

339 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 9, 2018

About the author

My name is Nathan Jones. I write mainly in the post-apocalyptic and science fiction genres. My most recently completed project is The Challenge, first book of the post-apocalyptic No More Content series, a collaboration with my brother Seth Jones. My next project is Mythas, first book of the fantasy adventure series Band of Outcasts.

I've been a longtime reader of post-apocalyptic fiction, and like to explore various scenarios in which disasters could occur. One interest has been observing just how fragile our modern life is, and how little it would take to send us back to a low tech existence that people in general no longer possess the knowledge or skills to survive in. That interest inspired me to write and publish my completed post-apocalyptic series Best Laid Plans, comprising the five books Fuel, Shortage, Invasion, Reclamation, and Determination, and to build on that story with the completed Nuclear Winter series, which begins shortly after Best Laid Plans ends and includes the four books First Winter, First Spring, Chain Breakers, and Going Home, as well as the standalone novel Fallen City.

Outside the Best Laid Plans world I've written the completed post-apocalyptic Mountain Man series, with the novels Badlands, Homecoming, Homeland, Mountain War, Final Stand, and Lone Valley. I also have the completed post-apocalyptic Isolation series with Shut In, Going Out, Starting Anew, and Holding On. My current post-apocalyptic series is No More Content, with the recently released first book The Challenge.

I've also been a longtime reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy, with an equally deep love of those two genres. This has inspired multiple projects, the most recently completed being my science fiction novel Caretakers, Book Two of the Stag Privateers series, sequel to Last Stand. My other science fiction story is Boralene, Book One of the Stellar Merger series.

The stories I've written in the Young Adult Fantasy genre have now been moved over from another pen name to be available alongside my other books. These books include the completed The Watchers trilogy with Undying Heights, Ithel's Library, and Deep Dwelling, the completed The Protectorate series with Corsairs, Revenants, Invaders, and Shipwrights, and the standalone children's fairy tale Firefly Girl.