*Book Tour & Giveaway* The Brittle Riders-GUEST POST

 

After humans circumvented anti-AI laws and made new species to fulfill roles of menial laborers, sex slaves, and shock troops those creations eventually rose up and killed every man, woman, and child on the planet. This is the world if Frankenstein's monsters ruled the Earth.

 

The Brittle Riders

Book One

by Bill McCormick

Genre: Science Fiction Fantasy

In a far future, Earth had already been visited by an alien race called the Sominids, who came here for the express purpose of drinking and having sex with everyone they could. When one of their infamous parties resulted in the moon being cut in half and killing everyone who happened to live there, they quietly left. Their encounter with the Sominids had taught the human race many things, primarily that faster-than-light travel did not exist. Denied the stars, the human race began to dwindle in numbers and terminate all of their space programs.

 A thousand years later, a scientist named Edward Q. Rohta circumvented anti-AI laws, laws which had been on the books for millennia, by creating organic creatures to provide manual labor. Instead of dying after ten years, as promised in the company brochure, they would develop flu-like symptoms and go into hiding. Eventually, fed up with the mistreatment they suffered at the hands of humans, they rose up and killed every man, woman, and child on the planet. This is the story of what happens next. The Brittle Riders; Apocalypses are funny that way.

 A very unique tone and world, reminiscent of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY meets a MAGNIFICENT SEVEN/DIRTY DOZEN - type setup, but with a look, flavor, and lexicon all its own. In a world where studios and streamers are looking for IP that's expansive, both narratively and in terms of ancillary possibilities (prequels, offshoots, video games, etc.), (The Brittle Riders) certainly seems to offer up a number of possibilities. - Garrick Dion – Producer

  

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BILL McCORMICK is an award-winning and critically acclaimed author of several novels, graphic novels, and comic book series, and has appeared in numerous anthologies. He began writing professionally in 1986 for the Chicago Rocker Magazine in conjunction with his radio show on Z-95 (ABC-FM) and went on to write for several other magazines and blogs. He wrote a twisted news & science blog at WorldNewsCenter.org. It provided source material for his weekly radio show on WBIG 1280 AM, FOX!, which aired from 10/2010 to 8/2022. Bill is a big fan of music and this rainbow-haired goddess who married him just for fun. You can find out more about him at BillMcSciFi.com.

 

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Can you, for those who don't know you already, tell something about yourself and how you became an author? 

When the aliens from the second Horzukan system took me aboard their ship, the QZT Zinglepuff, I was subjected to a series of ….. oh, wait, never mind, that’s why I love extreme hot sauces. I was a child of indeterminate birth. I have certificates of live births from Berwyn, Illinois and County of Cork, Ireland and a mention in a book that my chubby ass first popped out in Soldier’s Grove, Wisconsin. Since I was born in an era where the Catholic church was snatching up babies from single moms to resell them for profit, Google “Catholic church selling orphans” (without the quotes) to be horrified, blurring my place of birth was a good idea. I was raised by my grandparents. They loved, but didn’t understand, me. My grandma, like all good Catholic girls in her day, never went to school, and my grandpa dropped out in the third grade. I, however, was an “A” student who loved reading and learning. 

When I was four, my grandma went to a used book sale to get me something to read, i.e., shut me up. Keep in mind she had no context for what was, or was not, age appropriate. Knowing what you now know, you will not be surprised to find out she bought me a collection of classics. Robin Hood, Arabian Nights, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and so on. Great stories, one and all, not exactly geared at a four-year-old kid. 

With the help of my trusty dictionary, and the persistence only a child can have, I read every one. By the time I was in fifth grade, I was reading at a Senior in College level. I was, as you might imagine, annoying as heck.

I was also kind of isolated, with few friends, so I began filling in the gaps with stories I had made up. I had my first play performed at West Leyden High School, and it involved aliens. I went on to write lots of nonfiction for music magazines, sports blogs, and anywhere else that would publish me. 

In 2010, I’d lost my job, my wife, and solid reasons to live. I decided I couldn’t afford therapy, so I started writing the stories that were trapped in my head. In 2011, Bewildering Stories sent me a lengthy rejection letter for my story, Vorbliss (too many F-bombs and sexualizing nuns was a no-no), but thought I was the funniest author who’d ever submitted. My second submission, And the Beat Goes Phut, about a techno apocalypse, got published, got fan mail, and I was off to the races.

In 2019, I quit working for strangers and began writing full-time. I have a roof over my head, hot and cold running water in the kitchen and the john, and a new wife who never loses that new-wife smell. I love her stupid amounts, and she helps keep me sane.

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