Hollow World
by Michael J Sullivan
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Pub Date Apr 15 2014 | Archive Date May 07 2014
Description
The future is coming...for some, sooner than others
Ellis Rogers is a seemingly ordinary man who is about to embark on an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it safe and done the right thing. But when he is faced with a terminal illness, Ellis is willing to take an insane gamble. He's secretly built a time machine in his garage, and if it works, he’ll face a utopian world that challenges his understanding of what it means to be human, what it takes to love, and what the cost of paradise really might be.Ellis could find more than a cure for his disease; he might find what everyone has been searching for since time has begun — but only if he can survive Hollow World.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
“This book made me laugh. It also made me cry. And in the
end, it made me think. I highly recommend Hollow World for
anyone looking for a book that brushes on and plays out some political and
social issues we face today.”
—SFFWorld
“I’m happy to report that not only does Hollow World establish
Sullivan as a force to be reckoned with in any genre he chooses to ply his
talent to, it also is a prime example of one of the reasons speculative fiction
is so important.”
—52 Book Reviews
Marketing Plan
-Consumer and trade advertising including
Locus and SciFi Magazine
-Appearances at major genre conventions including New York ComicCon and the
World Fantasy Convention
-Pre-order promotion with signed bookplates & free content
-Promotion via genre review sites, book blogs, and Amazon blogs
-Email campaign to the author's 5,000-6,000 person mailing list
-Planned blog tour of approximately 8-12 guest blogs and 3-4 interviews
-Planned book giveaways on Goodreads and other online outlets
-Reddit Ask Me Anything feature with giveaway
-Giveaway of free e-book with all print sales on Amazon and other online outlets
-Promotion on author's website (http://riyria.blogspot.com/) and social media
(@author_sullivan; www.facebook.com/author.michael.sullivan)
Marketing notes:
-Sullivan's Riyria Revelations series, published by Orbit in the UK, has sold over 450,000 copies in English language print and e-book sales.
-Hollow World was initially Kickstarted and was over-funded by more than 1000% (asked for $3,000 received $31,000)
-Sullivan has a substantial following to which he actively promotes through Amazon, Goodreads, blogging, and other social media. He attributes much of his success to the fantasy book blogging community
-Print sales on Amazon will be bolstered by Amazon's new MatchBook e-book giveaway
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781616961831 |
| PRICE | $15.95 (USD) |
Average rating from 49 members
Featured Reviews
Kel M, Media/Journalist
Fresh start at mid-life, two millennia in the future
Hollow World by Michael J. Sullivan (Tachyon Publications, $15.95).
Ellis Rogers has a crappy life. Still grieving his son’s suicide, unhappy in his marriage, 58 years old and never getting ahead as an engineer—it couldn’t get any worse, until he gets some really bad news. He’s got a degenerative pulmonary disease and can’t expect to live much longer.
So he decides to take a flying risk—literally and figuratively—by using the time machine he’s constructed in his garage to skip ahead a couple of hundred years in hopes that there’s a cure for what ails him. So, what are the odds that he found the error in a theoretical physicist’s calculations and corrected it? Or that a machine made from recycled car parts and milk crates with an iPad will work?
It really doesn’t matter, because Ellis ends up two millennia in the future. And what might be just another time travel story then takes a huge and creative twist, as Ellis witnesses a murder in a future were our descendants have supposedly genetically-engineered themselves free of violence.
Teaming up with Pax, a genderless therapist who deals with trauma, to solve the murder, Ellis uncovers a plot to destroy the Hollow World. Full of plot twists and great character development, Michael J. Sullivan’s novel offers several unusual perspectives on gender, work, individuality, our propensity toward violence, and what makes us human.
Oh, and the idea of a middle-aged protagonist with health problems? Such a nice change from the typical young, gorgeous and able-bodied heroes of science fiction.
Sullivan includes an author’s note in which he addresses the unlikelihood of time travel possibilities; it’s really unnecessary, though, as the time travel isn’t the point here. The story takes off as a mystery/thriller and as an exploration of what it means to be emotionally healthy. The key is in the character development, and Hollow World has that in a big way.
Hollow World is one more piece of evidence that Tachyon Publications is bringing some original and fascinating science fiction to readers.
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