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by Mark Salzwedel
THE LEVER is a space opera with mostly LGBTQ characters. It’s set in a future a couple hundred years from now when we’ve colonized the Moon and we’re starting on Mars and a couple of other celestial bodies in our vicinity. The global standard of living has risen to the point that bearing siblings or any children at all is an uncommon event, and young people become a rare and sought-after minority.
So when Shonda Kinney hears that young people are being abducted, it is easily dismissed as the work of corporate raiders, telomerase farms, or human sex traffickers. But there is something different about the first couple she investigates. They were receiving genetic therapy, and all records of their existence got expunged.
Eventually, she and 3 of the abducted gay soldiers end up on Mars and then on the other side of the galaxy where any misstep may doom the human race.
If this sounds like a story you’d like to read, you can order the book almost anywhere online, including Amazon, Smashwords, or Barnes & Noble, but my publisher will certainly appreciate you ordering directly from them, I’m sure:
If you’re still not sure you want to invest the $19.95 to buy it, you have a chance to sample it first, along with the outstanding, world-class cooking of your publisher, Valerie Watts, consider attending a special dinner and reading from The Lever on Saturday, July 9, 6 pm, at Seven (470 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn). Advance reservations are required, and you can make yours by visiting the following:
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