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Everywhere young scientist Edwyn Santiago looks, the inhabitants of the colony ship Euclid get restless—500 years of deep space travel have taken their emotional toll on this small, artistic, scientific society, which held itself together through generations of isolation.
A brief respite comes from the celebrations of arrival in orbit above the planet Helena, but pre-colonization research remains to be done. While festivities dwindle, old societal and family wounds resurface.
Even as Edwyn helps to make startling new findings about the planet, she discovers a less idyllic, more cloistered side of the colony, and takes on a duty much larger than her scientific inquiries: striving to locate some saving grace for a civilization yearning and divided, while obstacles multiply on an exponential scale.
James Dunham’s debut novel, The Helena Orbit, charts a twisting and skillful course through the volatile pitfalls of family and politics, the thrill of scientific exploration, and the quiet, musical stirrings of humanity alone in the sublime void of space.
The Helena Orbit
A novel by James Dunham
Available May 1, 2017
Print ISBN-10: 1-945646-16-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-945646-16-4
Ebook ISBN-10: 1-945646-17-9 ISBN-13: 978-1-945646-17-1
Kindle ISBN-10: 1-945646-18-7 ISBN-13: 978-1-945646-18-8
Publisher: Lillicat Publishers
220 pages
$15.95 Print
$4.99 Ebook & Kindle
Publisher Synopsis:
A generations colony ship reaches its destination. After 500 years of deep space travel, the artistic and scientific inhabitants on board the colony ship Euclid celebrate their long anticipated arrival in orbit above the planet Helena. Young scientist Edwyn Santiago uncovers intrigues and secrets hidden for centuries, while startling new findings about the destination planet reopen old societal and family wounds.
Author Bio:
James Dunham’s stories have appeared in The Southeast Review, Crab Fat Magazine, Philadelphia Stories, and other publications. The Helena Orbit is his debut novel. He earned his MFA in fiction from Bowling Green State University and is a graduate of the Writers Institute at Susquehanna University. He is also the editor of the online literary magazine The Quiet Circle. He lives in New Jersey with his wife.