A Spider Sat Beside Her: The Melt Trilogy - Book One

A Spider Sat Beside Her is a science fiction "what if" story set in a world drowned after a catastrophic melting of the ice caps.Lowry Walker takes a graduate position on the new International Space Station, circling far above a world flooded by oceans and social strife. Her dissertation includes gathering Landsat data over Antarctica, now exposed after global warming has melted the ice caps, but her mission is to heal herself after divorcing an abusive husband.However, the danger is just beginning--a terrorist attack on the space station embroils her into a political nightmare. In a world drowned by rising seas, territorial battles erupt across the globe, with strong governments stealing land from the weak. Canada and America have merged into the United States of Amerada, with a corrupt political ring in control, and who utilize the assault for their own political purposes. And Lowry is the inconvenient witness...Excerpt: He began to speak, and Lowry flinched against his breath caressing her cheek. "You see, Lowry, life just isn't fair. The settlers are moving into the land to the north, just like the European settlers did when this continent was first colonized."

His voice dropped to a whisper, and the hair rose on the back of Lowry's neck. "It's as simple as this: the people of Amerada want that land, and the people will get it." He smiled down at her with teeth perfect and white. "And there's not a rat's-ass thing you or I can do about it. It's the human way."

Author: K. E. Lanning
Publisher: K.E. Lanning
Published: 07/17/2017
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780999121016

About the Author
Lanning, K. E.: - K.E. Lanning is a scientist and writer. Born in Texas in 1957, she grew up near Houston in the small town of Friendswood, laced with white oyster shell roads and open fields dotted with huge live oaks-riding horses rather than bikes. But nearby, NASA's space program shepherded thoughts of astrophysics into her head. Lanning received a bachelor's degree in Physics in 1979 from Stephen F. Austin St. University in Nacogdoches, TX and a MBA in 1986 from the University of Houston. In her geophysics career, science met art-imaging landscapes beneath the surface of the earth. Lanning owned and directed an art gallery in Houston, fascinated with curating thought-provoking shows with new and proven artists. Lanning has long been a fan of science fiction, intrigued by the multi-dimensions of the genre, allowing the author to explore society, humanity, and our future-bringing the reader along for the ride. To reveal the inner workings of some of the best sci-fi authors in the business, she's published a series of sci-fi author interviews in OMNI magazine, In the Author's Universe: Sci-Fi Authors from a Writer's Point of View, including authors Hugh Howey, Margaret Atwood, and Cixin Liu. Her first novel is A Spider Sat Beside Her, a work of literary/speculative science fiction, with an eco-fiction emphasis, and will launch on July 17, 2017. Two additional novels, The Sting of the Bee and Listen to the Birds, are in the works and will complete the trilogy, though each will be standalone works.