First Planets Duology (TPB) nr. 1: Mercury Rising (Greene, R. W. W.)
Alternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplenty Even in a technologically-advanced, Kennedy-Didn’t-Die alternate-history, Brooklyn Lamontagne is going nowhere fast. The year is 1975, thirty years after Robert Oppenheimer invented the Oppenheimer Nuclear Engine, twenty-five years after the first human walked on the moon, and eighteen years after Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven sacrificed their lives to stop the alien invaders. Brooklyn just wants to keep his mother’s rent paid, earn a little scratch of his own, steer clear of the cops, and maybe get laid sometime in the near future. Simple pleasures, right? But a killer with a baseball bat and a mysterious box of 8-track tapes is about to make his life real complicated…
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R. W. W. Greene
R.W.W. Greene is a New Hampshire writer who lives with his writer spouse and two rather odd cats: Huzzah! and Jack. Greene holds an MFA in fiction writing from Southern New Hampshire University and doesn't play his guitar nearly as much as he'd like.