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rank 5457
word count 10326
date submitted 29.11.2008
date updated 10.02.2009
genres: Fiction, Thriller, Other
classification: moderate
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A Fall of Glory

Catherine Callaghan

A professor has invented a plausible solar car. An oil company has found out and will stop at nothing to destroy plans, prototype, and inventor...

 

Environmental Science professor and avid eco-tourist, David Graham searches for adventure in his day-to-day life. When he attempts to patent the solar car he has invented, he gets more than he had bargained for. He finds himself fighting for his beloved invention and, moreover, his life as he starts to recieve some very pressing 'offers' from a few powerful multination cartels.


This adventure raging across the vast and unforgiving Canadian Shield will have you on the edge of your seat. In this time of global uncertainty and amidst the oil crisis, alternitives to natural gas must be found. The only question is -- will the upper echelons of global oil companies let this happen? Money is power, after all. Just how powerful are the forces that we depend so much upon? How far will they go?


Author's note: This is the bare-bones skeleton of the novel, written in one month for NaNoWriMo 2008. This is my first novel, but not my first large project. Comments, suggestions, critiques, and plot-fillers are not only welcomed, but possibly necessary! Thanks for reading!

 
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adventure, alternative, canada, environment, federal, global warming, mystery, north, northern, oil, ontario, scandal, solar, thriller

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Hypo99 wrote 673 days ago

THIS BOOK IS RATHER BEAUTIFUL AND I WANT TO BACK IT. I SHALL INDEED BE READING MORE AND MORE

BACKED INDEED.

Hope you get the chance tpo peek inside The Russian Hat. warm wishes
Brendan

P. S. Dunn wrote 982 days ago

Catherine, my fingers pushed the save too fast. What I should have told you is drop chapter 1. Chapter 2 is a better beginning. Maybe it isn't as pretty but it grabs you right away. And there is that nice "car" image right away that leads you into the story.

P. S. Dunn wrote 982 days ago

I think you've got a start. And I think your "voice" flows really nicely. But I don't think you have a novel. You have the start of a novel. But there's nothing in the first chapter to keep me reading to the next one. I don't know what the story is about. Also there is a book out right now called the Take-Us. A friend of mine wrote it and it is about exactly the same subject. You might want to take a look at it.

mikegilli wrote 1252 days ago



Howdy doody.. ready to go...I found uploading user unfriendly.. demeaning ...cheap and nasty!

If you want I'll have a look at your book and give my opinion. ..if you do the same for me!

Bur don''t put me on your list or shelf !
We don't need to play this absurd and inherently dishonest game!...........

Raymond Terry wrote 1262 days ago

Ahhh Catherine.
The story is intriguing. A butterfly for an inspiration and a prologue that starts with a bang. I understand that this is 'bare bones' but I think it may work and speaking as a man, who of that description amongst us has never made a similar mistake as Graham does in chapter five? Your characters are human and that makes them attractive. Write on...RT

Patty wrote 1270 days ago

Catherine,

Some comments here.

I liked the prologue, but don't understand why it needs to be in italics. It's harder to read. As is, the Geogia font you use is hard on the eyes. Microsoft developed it for use on screens, but that is because it's space-efficient and doesn't leave a lot of white space. That makes it harder to read when there's a block of text.

After the prologue, we jump back to the past. The first chapter is of the professor bushwalking and seeing various parts of nature. I liked the descriptions, but have to admit there is not much tension in this chapter, and I feel there should be more..

Dai Lowe wrote 1273 days ago

Interesting premise. Have you ever seen the Ealing Comedy film, The Man in the White Suit, about a man who invents a non-wearing, never-dirty fabric? Satire on similar basic themes ~ does the world want such a boon?

Look forward to checking this out at leisure. Good luck with it.

[I take it Poonlop didn't measure up to Benny ;o) ]

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