About the Icarus Universe
Humanity expanded to take up residence within Earth's oceans as well as the surface by the middle of the 21st Century. A fast and brutal world war breaks out in the early 2060s that wipes out almost 85% of the surface population in a matter of weeks, and disaster after disaster meeting relief efforts cause those living within the oceanic domes to retreat below the waves.
Decades later, the next generation calls for renewed efforts to aid the survivors still struggling on the surface, but those grown complacent refuse to change the status quo. Rebuilding isn't easy when the knowledge of generations past is lost forever, and power must be pried from the hands of those who hold it.
Decades later, the next generation calls for renewed efforts to aid the survivors still struggling on the surface, but those grown complacent refuse to change the status quo. Rebuilding isn't easy when the knowledge of generations past is lost forever, and power must be pried from the hands of those who hold it.
Icarus Awakens
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The Icarus Project |
![]() "Icarus Awakens" is a short story detailing Pyrrha's first salvage mission to the surface where she sees the devastation left behind and continued struggles of the Surfacers first-hand. There, what she sees is at odds with what she has been told about the surface and its peoples throughout her life.
"Icarus Awakens" is only available in Daydreams and Myth, a collection of short works by A. B. England. Additionally, the collection also contains the first chapter to The Icarus Project, the upcoming first novel for the Icarus Series. The Gyre Turns Again![]() When world leaders returned home from a summit with what they thought was a simple cold, no one imagined it would lead to yet another world war. We progressed a great deal in the hundred-plus years since the last ended, and we'd come close enough to Armageddon the last go round. Humanity didn't stand a chance this time.
The Gyre Turns Again is an anthology of flash fictions set within the same universe as The Icarus Series, due to begin publication in January 2024. The stories are set anywhere from a few months before WWIII broke out to the start of the series twenty years later, featuring a broad cast of characters from a variety of settings within this version of a potential future apocalypse and its aftermath. |
![]() The surface world imploded when she was a little girl. It was a fact Pyrrha knew well, yet she was ill-prepared to see the remaining devastation firsthand. It felt like the little boy she'd seen on her first salvage mission would haunt her forever.
Compassion for the survivors and rage at the complacency shown by her parents' generation fuel her determination to see change. She wanted to do something, but Pyrrha never intended to become the face of a movement. Meanwhile, Asa, a former biochemical engineer within the Atlantic Coalition, struggles to aid her new community's continued survival as she works to develop a vaccine that will allow her to return home. It's too bad roving bands of religious zealots want her dead, and Jacob Pound, leader of the powerful East Woods community just wants her. |
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