Solaris Books Acquires Author Ben Jeapes New Sci-fi Series

Ben Jeapes’s New sci-fi series has been acquired by Solaris Books. The new novels that will begin with “Phoenicia’s Worlds” will be published August of next year and is based on a concept that Jeapes has been imagining for some time now. Recently posted on his blog that that even though his initial concept was to write the story as a series he felt it too time consuming to actually see fruition. Ben Jeapes got married as well has finding his career as a successful author and ghost writer taking up a lot of his time he did not feel he would have the time to devote to a full sci-fi series. However having set down to begin writing this new fantastical world it became inevitable that it would be more than one novel. Book one will deal with two brothers caught up by fate as the future of their world hangs in the balance. It happens in a reality where human colonies settled on multiple worlds are accessed by wormholes, throughout the galaxy. For two worlds to be joined, a wormhole terminus has to be towed there at slower-than-light speeds in a starship, its crew (naturally) in suspended animation for a voyage that takes decades. Each terminus can only link to one other, at the starship’s last port of call. This has been happening for centuries, and human civilisation is now an interwoven web of many worlds and cultures. The frontier of the Expansion is all the worlds that so far have been settled through a wormhole, but have yet to send a starship on to the next world. This will be the basis for book one. Jeapes has stated on his blog that there will be a book two for which he has his basic story mapped out.

Jeapes sent the story in to Solaris then questioned the power of the story set out to withdraw it but somehow discovered the story was still being considered. Now the two will bring this reality to life set  a thousand years in Earth’s future at the genesis of mankind’s journey into the universe. And yes the sequel has found itself in Jeapes’s mind and even if this world becomes altered from the original concept it will still be a pretty massive contemporary saga that should please any sci-fi fan whether you have read Ben Jeapes’s earlier work or not. I for one look forward to adding it to my Books Worth Reading list.