What is Primae Noctis?

Find out for yourself!  Read the first 80 original edit pages for free at:
http://www.aimerythomas.com/pnpreview.pdf

Primae Noctis is an unique, epic-length, science fiction novel that I have researched and written over the past two years.  It is the first of three books in what I have titled The Once and Future Lords trilogy.  The remaining titles, Tempus Belli and Corpus Novus, are in various stages of draft and planned for release over the coming years.  These novels will be a direct continuation of the story that begins in Primae Noctis, which is more than 200,000 words stand-alone. 

So what's so unique about your story? 

Primae Noctis is set 60 years after the Calamity, a crisis of war, disease, famine, and sudden ecological shift that leads to the deaths of more than 99% of the world's 13.6 billion inhabitants. With the guidance of the Archonae, the survivors have formed an idyllic new society of secure and protected cities designed to elevate humanity to it's full potential and to prevent the problems of the past from recurring. However, not everyone is content with life in the new utopia. Join a rich and detailed cast of characters as they begin to unravel the truths about the world in which they live.

You'll need to read it to decide for yourself if it qualifies as a truly dystopic vision of the future, or something else entirely.  From the perspective of style, the narrative portions of the novel are presented with excerpts from an alternative history that details the technological, political, social, religious, military, and sexual norms and stories from the future world.

What flavor of science fiction is your book?

A hard and soft swirl on a waffle cone.  Although Primae Noctis has most of the hallmark characteristics of the hard subgenre, I believe that my novel has a rare focus that considers the social and political values of the world that it depicts.  I created the work's detailed future history as a way to examine how the seeds of  developments in our world today may bear bitter fruit in the future. 

As a true sci-fi novel, there are plenty of well-conceived future technologies and a tasteful modicum of fornication and violence throughout the work.  Fantasy readers may be interested in the novel for the epic scale of the story.;

Primae Noctis is written for an adult audience.  I hope to eventually be able to bring this to a much wider audience on papyrus or stone tablets, but I will start with an e-book on Amazon.com and other online e-tailers.

So give us the pitch, already...

Why I have come to Kickstarter?  The next two months are critical in attracting competent, third-party editing support to my self-publishing effort.  I will also need support to cover basic promotional expenses to spread the word about the novel, such as simple online advertising, and other expenses in a few key areas:

• Professional editing hire and related expenses.
• The development/production of promo materials and the website.
• General business and public relations expenses.

A final request...

If you can't pledge your support to this project financially, it would be deeply appreciated if you could visit the novel's Facebook page to "Like" this effort and spread the word to others that enjoy science fiction such as this.  You could also follow me on Twitter to further spread the word to your fellow netizens.

Putting your work out there for others is always a very revealing experience.  This is probably the first time in my life where I've really put it all on the line to see what the universe would have to say about what I've written, and there's no way to go back now.  I am an eternal realist, but I am also eternally real in my desire to be an optimist.

You can find the novel on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/primaenoctisnovel.

You can learn more about me and the novel at www.aimerythomas.com.

You can live vicariously through me and experience the thrills of running a Kickstarter project and other musings at aimerythomas.blogspot.com

Thank you for your time and consideration,
Aimery Thomas

IMPORTANT UPDATE: If you back this project at the $50 pledge level or higher, your name will appear in the Acknowledgements section of all future electronic or print editions of Primae Noctis!