Thunder Daughter

Thunder Daughter

About the Story

Back in August 2007, I (re-)discovered "NaNoWriMo"; I forget exactly what reminded me in the first place, but I decided that this year would be the year I tried it! I'd toyed with the idea before, and first read about it way back in university in about 2001, but never actually went for it.

In a way, I wanted this NaNoWriMo to be a bit of an experiment - lots of random themes and concepts woven together to make something (hopefully) interesting, to avoid writing the same basic story with a few twists all over again.

Sei and Mirii are on "holiday" - at least, that's the idea, although it's more a plan of Sei's to try and get Mirii to think more for herself. When their Vaneship is hit by lightning over the ocean, however, and they're separated, it becomes far steeper a learning curve than he anticipated!

Sei, too heavy to swim, sinks to the bottom of the ocean, where he is rescued by a steam-age society living in a city in a giant bubble on the ocean floor. The people of the bubble have lived cramped lives in their private, manufactured hell for centuries, unable to escape and slowly self-destructing through poverty and a bad fish diet. Sei must somehow find a way out - simultaneously avoiding those who have alternate plans in mind for the "big battery"...

Mirii, meanwhile, is adopted by one of the native tribes; a sophisticated, pre-industrial race with a heavy reliance on pomp and circumstance, and plentiful ritual sacrifice. Seeing their "Thunder Daughter" emerge from the ocean at the start of the new year, painted a rich, glowing gold by the sun after a heavy thunderstorm, they see it as a blessing. Mirii sees it as rather frightening - especially when they finally reveal their plans for her...

Information

Character list - who will you meet?

Places and Races - where's it all set, what are the species, etc.

Extracts and Previews

This is currently undergoing the last few stages of editing before I (attempt to) self-publish it. The first draft (minus the last few chapters, which need HEAVY editing) is still available at the LiveJournal username where I first uploaded it. (Start at Chapter One)

Sample revised chapters (coming soon)

Art

Click on the thumbnails for the full versions; some linked here are also in the site gallery, so you may have seen them before. NB: not all art for this project has been uploaded, some is intended to be available only in the print version (although this may change!). NB Some are semi-sensible pictures, scenes, etc, and some are "bloopers", just intended to be a bit of fun!

                                       

In Print!

watch this space...
Book I hope to have two editions available - one with just the story (or perhaps a bit of lineart), and an illustrated edition. The illustrated edition will be colour, containing art created specially for the project. Watch this space for further information!