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Genre: Science Fiction
About RyanHarronLocation: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Home Region: Age:30 Website: http://sites.google.com/site/allourtomorrows Favorite writers: Neil Gaiman, Robert Sawyer, Phillip K Dick, Karen Traviss, JRR Tolkein, George RR Martin, JC Hutchins, Scott Sigler Non-noveling interests: music (playing and listening), video games, politics, DIY culture |
Joined: October 26, 2003 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 87 NaNoWriMo buddies: 35
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Brief Author Bio: When not writing, Ryan Harron's secret identity is that of an adult educator working in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, where he also lives with his wife and guitar. Although he has always had a love of telling stories, Ryan's first experience writing long-form fiction came when he participated in the National Novel Writing Month in 2002. In addition to taking parting in that challenge annually since then, he has also spread his wings to work with short fiction, poetry, sequential art, and music, and has begun to self-publish some of his work online and in print. |
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Synopsis: Dining At Daybreak
note: due to pressing personal matters, I'm not going to be able to write 50,000 words this month. I'm setting a personal goal of 25,000 in the first fifteen days of November.
So, high above the Earth, there's a permanent space station that's been built. It's tehtered to the planet via space elevator, allowing those who can afford to a chance to experience outer space. And they have the BEST tiramasu. Seriously, you've got to try this stuff.
Daybreak is a luxury resort located in the most elite of all locations: a geosynchronous obrit around the Earth. Due to the zero-gravity conditions that it operates under, the chefs in Daybreak's kitchen are allowed to attempt daring, audacious recipes that wouldn't be possible under any other circumstances.
Maximillian Cortes has just landed a spot in the kitchen at Daybreak. A lot of people are convinced that's only because his diplomat uncle pulled some strings for Max at the UN, but Max knows that he's got what it takes to make a name for himself at Daybreak, and is willing to do whatever he has to to ensure that he does.
Excerpt: Dining At Daybreak
The ferry pulled into the dock. As it did, Max walked up the spiral staircase to the top deck of the ship; he had purposefully waited until they had arrived at port to see Eclipse station, and he wanted to make sure that he saw it from the best vantage point that he could. He wanted the first time to be special.
When he actually saw the station, his heart was filled with a mixture of excitement, wonder, ... and disappointment. He had expected it to be larger. This wasn't to say that it was small, by any objective standards – the station occupied the better part of a square kilometer and the elevator shaft itself rose up past the vanishing point of the sky. At the same time, though, it lacked the scale and grandeur that he had come to associate with Eclipse from seeing it in videos and pictures.
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