SERIES: THE OUTSIDER PROJECT
BOOK I
"BTS does a great job of creating a balance between two things: layers and clarity...The tale of a species’ fight for freedom and desire for coexistence even after all that has been done to them is thoroughly engrossing to read, and one that remains timely in a world where discrimination is still a regular occurrence."
- Matt Doyle, Author & Reviewer.
LENGTH: 93,700 words
PUBLISHED UNDER: Rebecca Langham
GENRE: Science Fiction (literary).
RELEASE DATE: 15th January, 2018
CONTENT WARNINGS: Coarse language, sexual references, some violent imagery, racist ideologies, kidnapping. Recommended for readers 15+.
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When a change in collective conscious sends the Outsiders, a group of aliens, to the shadows below the city, humans reason that the demonization of their peers is simply more "humane." There's no question, nor doubt. Just acceptance.
Lydia had embraced that sense of "truth" for as long as she can remember. The daughter of a powerful governor, she has been able to live her life with more comforts than most. Comforts can be suffocating, though, and when the opportunity to teach Outsider children in their private, "humane" community becomes available, she takes it.
What she finds beneath the city is far from the truth she had grown to know. There she meets Alessia, an Outsider with the knowledge and will to shake the foundation of all those who walk above ground. The two find a new and unexpected connection despite a complete disconnect from the technological world. Or perhaps in spite of it.
Still, it takes a lot more than an immutable connection to change the world. Lydia, Alessia, and a small group of Outsiders must navigate a system of corruption, falsehoods, and twists none of them ever saw coming, all while holding on to the hope to come out alive in the end. But it's a risk worth taking, and a future worth fighting for.
BOOK II
PUBLISHED UNDER: Rebecca Langham
LENGTH: 80, 000 words
GENRE: Science Fiction (literary)
RELEASE DATE: 13 January 2020
CONTENT WARNINGS: Coarse language, sexual references, some violent imagery, racist ideologies, kidnapping. Recommended for readers 15+.
Purchase links:
AMAZON US (Kindle)
KOBO (ebook)
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Alessia is an Outsider—a member of the not-quite-human community that has recently been released from their underground prison. Shortly after their liberation, Alessia is given an ultimatum: obey all the United Earth Alliance’s demands, or her mother will forever remain a hostage—a mother she’d believed dead for fifteen years. Reluctantly, she agrees, though she has no idea what those demands may be, or how she will balance her obligations to the UEA with her responsibilities to her people and her family.
As the UEA tightens its grip on humans and Outsiders alike, it becomes clear that meaningful social change will not be possible without a revolution. Alessia and her peers embark on a mission to discover just how far the government is willing to go to maintain their monopoly on power.
What Alessia and her comrades discover, however, goes much deeper than they’d ever anticipated. Who are the Outsiders, really? What secrets of their destiny lay hidden within a top-secret space station? And why are the Outsiders linked to an emerging disease the UEA seems desperate to keep secret? As they delve deeper, it isn’t only Alessia’s identity that will be called into question, but the fate of the entire planet.
LENGTH: 80, 000 words
GENRE: Science Fiction (literary)
RELEASE DATE: 13 January 2020
CONTENT WARNINGS: Coarse language, sexual references, some violent imagery, racist ideologies, kidnapping. Recommended for readers 15+.
Purchase links:
AMAZON US (Kindle)
KOBO (ebook)
SMASHWORDS (ebook)
NINESTAR PRESS (ebook)
Alessia is an Outsider—a member of the not-quite-human community that has recently been released from their underground prison. Shortly after their liberation, Alessia is given an ultimatum: obey all the United Earth Alliance’s demands, or her mother will forever remain a hostage—a mother she’d believed dead for fifteen years. Reluctantly, she agrees, though she has no idea what those demands may be, or how she will balance her obligations to the UEA with her responsibilities to her people and her family.
As the UEA tightens its grip on humans and Outsiders alike, it becomes clear that meaningful social change will not be possible without a revolution. Alessia and her peers embark on a mission to discover just how far the government is willing to go to maintain their monopoly on power.
What Alessia and her comrades discover, however, goes much deeper than they’d ever anticipated. Who are the Outsiders, really? What secrets of their destiny lay hidden within a top-secret space station? And why are the Outsiders linked to an emerging disease the UEA seems desperate to keep secret? As they delve deeper, it isn’t only Alessia’s identity that will be called into question, but the fate of the entire planet.