Planet Ripple: Minnow's World Vol.2

Planet Ripple #2

by Nicholas Anderson

For thousands of years the world has remained completely flooded, a sleeping, immaculate blue marble in a black sea. The survivors of the flood have made a meager living in large ships, some rivaling the size of small cities. So much has passed in this new world that some don't even believe there ever was any such thing as land. Little do they realize the earth is always changing, and a great new shift is underway.

When new land does emerge for the first time in millennia, what were once mountaintops in the old world poking through the surface to become new islands, the prospect of humanity returning to their true home is an exciting one. It is a time of opportunity like none alive have ever seen. The world is waking up. For most, however, this prospect may be too good to be true. The notorious Barrakuda gang, led by the Pirate Queen herself, has been hired by the elites of the world to keep the new land off-limits to all others. The pirates' army is vast in number, and spearheaded by monstrous cyborg warriors shaped in the image of terrifying sea creatures, unflinchingly dedicated to the Queen and her whims.

As things stand, the pirates cannot be defeated through force or numbers. It may fall upon one girl to find another way to secure a future for the people of a world turning itself inside out.

164 pages, Paperback

First published May 7, 2017

About the author

Hello. I'm Nicholas Anderson, the creator of Planet Ripple. I am also on the autism spectrum. I see a lot of talk going around about the "dangers" of normalizing the condition and giving people "false hopes," and I wanted to make something that represents people with autism (and other disabilities) in a better light. I believe it's not only important that this group be positively represented so they can aspire to be like the characters they see in media, but that non-autistic people understand them through works like this. Planet Ripple is a project I've been working on for years, and I'm pretty passionate about it. Minnow, the lead protagonist of Planet Ripple, is my ambassador. Like me she is at a point in her life where she's made it through enough of the struggles that can come with autism that in most conversations people may not even pick up on it, and no one in the story ever outright calls out what her condition is by name, but there are enough flashbacks to her youth and other, more current scenes where her quirks manifest, things that people who have seen these symptoms before in real life or know someone who has them or even have these symptoms themselves will notice and realize, "Oh. She's autistic. Okay, neat." That said, I don't want to market this as "just" an autistic person story, because autistic people are not just their condition. It is not their entire personality. They have tastes, interests, desires and dreams like anyone else. Yes, Minnow's journey is the emotional core of Planet Ripple but if that was its only selling point, it may not be interesting enough to catch on, feeling more like a patronizing, gimmicky PSA than a story with growth and resolution and a world that feels alive. I want Minnow to go places. I want her to succeed. In the contents of the Planet Ripple series of books, I've developed a whole world for Minnow to live in and I hope readers find it to be compelling stuff, because there is very little Minnow does in this story that any high functioning autistic person could not also accomplish. If you've made it this far, I hope you enjoy the journey to come. Thank you. - Amazon bio

Reviews

[°~Amy~° · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely amazing; the storyline, the characters, the artwork....everything is so enchanting and heartwrenching. I can NOT wait until volume 3 is in my hands!