mattwardwrites
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Hey guys, I am getting ready to fulfill my lifelong dream of being published author and take next steps on publishing Cynetic Wolf. Thanks for all the awesome feedback so far.
I'm trying to get the back cover copy and have 4 different options.
BTW. It's YA dystopian sci-fi, post-gene-editing...
Which do you like best and why?
What, if any, improvements would you make to each?
Thanks,
Matt
PS. If it wasn't okay to post this, please let me know. I honestly don't mean to be promotional or anything, just trying to get reader feedback from fellow sci-fi lovers!
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1.
Life sucked until his sister was murdered. Then things got interesting: hit squads, cybernetic powers, secrets better left unsaid.
Raek’s your average sixteen-year-old wolfish: claws, keen eyes, a nose for trouble… There’s just one thing: he’s got built-in blasters and is a threat to the immortal world government. That’s why the Resistance wants him, and why the cyborgs want him dead.
But the half-animal hybrid subservient majority have no power. And crossbreeding is supposed to be impossible. Heck, Raek even doesn’t know who he can trust, or how he got the cyborg powers in the first place.
He knows one thing though: everyone is after him, and he’s not ready to lead a revolution. But the fate of mankind may rest in his hands. Things are about to get bloody.
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2.
Raek Mekorian is wolfish, a member of the half-human animote caste that serve the cynetics and immortals rulers of the post-Bioplague world of 2096. Like other gene-edited mistakes, his life is meaningless, destined for whatever the all-powerful, techno-advanced Global Democratic Republic deems necessary.
“Keep your head down,” his mom always says. And he does, until his older sister is murdered and he discovers hidden cybernetic powers. Overnight his simple life is shattered, fracturing the rigid governmental caste system as he is thrust into the dangerous world of superhuman hit squads, Resistance uprisings, and secrets better left unsaid.
With only built-in blasters, the advice of a mysterious professor, and a wolfish nose for trouble, Raek must navigate crushing betrayal, self-doubt, and a limitless enemy whose evil knows no bounds.
Can Raek unify his people and free them from tyranny? The fate of mankind may rest in his hands.
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3.
It's 2096, sixty years after ninety percent died from a man-made Bioplague. Humanity has splintered into four unequal subspecies: immortals, cyborgs, enhancers, and subservient animotes (the half-human, half-animal hybrids from The Experiments).
The world is anything but equal. Animotes everywhere are suffering, but sixteen-year-old Raek Mekorian, a wolfish with a nose for trouble doesn’t see any alternative. Except the Resistance, who didn’t stand a chance against the world government. And his mom always said, “Keep your head down.”
And he does, until his sister is murdered by a pair of city cyborgs. That changes everything, especially after he kills the elites and discovers hidden cybernetic powers in the process. But everyone knows interbreeding is impossible.
After a governmental hit squad descends on the town to “dispose of the evidence,” Raek’s forced to run, fight an all-powerful police force and decide whether he’s willing to destroy all of it to free his people.
4.
Life's tough in the post-bioplague world of 2096, but for Raek everything's pretty simple. He lives in a slum, does what he's told and is content that whatever his future holds, someone else will be making the decisions.
But then a pair of police cyborgs murder his sister and all hell breaks loose. Now Raek's on the run with a government hit squad hot on his heels. The simple life is over. Raek has some decisions to make, and those decisions will have a more profound impact on the future of humanity than he realizes.
In his debut novel, Matt Ward explores what it means to be human in a world where the differences are more than just skin-deep.
I'm trying to get the back cover copy and have 4 different options.
BTW. It's YA dystopian sci-fi, post-gene-editing...
Which do you like best and why?
What, if any, improvements would you make to each?
Thanks,
Matt
PS. If it wasn't okay to post this, please let me know. I honestly don't mean to be promotional or anything, just trying to get reader feedback from fellow sci-fi lovers!
—
1.
Life sucked until his sister was murdered. Then things got interesting: hit squads, cybernetic powers, secrets better left unsaid.
Raek’s your average sixteen-year-old wolfish: claws, keen eyes, a nose for trouble… There’s just one thing: he’s got built-in blasters and is a threat to the immortal world government. That’s why the Resistance wants him, and why the cyborgs want him dead.
But the half-animal hybrid subservient majority have no power. And crossbreeding is supposed to be impossible. Heck, Raek even doesn’t know who he can trust, or how he got the cyborg powers in the first place.
He knows one thing though: everyone is after him, and he’s not ready to lead a revolution. But the fate of mankind may rest in his hands. Things are about to get bloody.
—
2.
Raek Mekorian is wolfish, a member of the half-human animote caste that serve the cynetics and immortals rulers of the post-Bioplague world of 2096. Like other gene-edited mistakes, his life is meaningless, destined for whatever the all-powerful, techno-advanced Global Democratic Republic deems necessary.
“Keep your head down,” his mom always says. And he does, until his older sister is murdered and he discovers hidden cybernetic powers. Overnight his simple life is shattered, fracturing the rigid governmental caste system as he is thrust into the dangerous world of superhuman hit squads, Resistance uprisings, and secrets better left unsaid.
With only built-in blasters, the advice of a mysterious professor, and a wolfish nose for trouble, Raek must navigate crushing betrayal, self-doubt, and a limitless enemy whose evil knows no bounds.
Can Raek unify his people and free them from tyranny? The fate of mankind may rest in his hands.
—
3.
It's 2096, sixty years after ninety percent died from a man-made Bioplague. Humanity has splintered into four unequal subspecies: immortals, cyborgs, enhancers, and subservient animotes (the half-human, half-animal hybrids from The Experiments).
The world is anything but equal. Animotes everywhere are suffering, but sixteen-year-old Raek Mekorian, a wolfish with a nose for trouble doesn’t see any alternative. Except the Resistance, who didn’t stand a chance against the world government. And his mom always said, “Keep your head down.”
And he does, until his sister is murdered by a pair of city cyborgs. That changes everything, especially after he kills the elites and discovers hidden cybernetic powers in the process. But everyone knows interbreeding is impossible.
After a governmental hit squad descends on the town to “dispose of the evidence,” Raek’s forced to run, fight an all-powerful police force and decide whether he’s willing to destroy all of it to free his people.
4.
Life's tough in the post-bioplague world of 2096, but for Raek everything's pretty simple. He lives in a slum, does what he's told and is content that whatever his future holds, someone else will be making the decisions.
But then a pair of police cyborgs murder his sister and all hell breaks loose. Now Raek's on the run with a government hit squad hot on his heels. The simple life is over. Raek has some decisions to make, and those decisions will have a more profound impact on the future of humanity than he realizes.
In his debut novel, Matt Ward explores what it means to be human in a world where the differences are more than just skin-deep.
