Beyond Tomorrow's Sun: A Novel of the Future

Charlie Bimmy dreamed of a life among the stars. He never expected to find a family, fall in love, or change the course of human history.

"...a fully original sci-fi mythology...vividly rendered and suspenseful...tonally similar to the Hunger Games and Divergent series...enjoyably akin to works like the Ender's Game novels and Valerian comic series..." - Launchpad Prose Competition

A thought-provoking adventure for Young Adult and Adult readers alike, who love adventure, technology, and deep questions of self and family.

Charlie never meant to change the future. He only wanted to survive.

Set in a fractured 24th-century America struggling to rebuild after devastating wars, Beyond Tomorrow's Sun follows thirteen-year-old Charlie Bimmy as he escapes an abusive home and follows an abandoned highway toward the distant ocean. Accompanied only by a stray dog named Katie, Charlie fights to survive across the wastelands of a broken world.

At the end of the road, he discovers Arcadia - a thriving technological city built upon hope, innovation, and humanity's uneasy reach across the Sol system.

When Charlie rescues the brilliant and impulsive Becca Kiel after her unauthorized journey through a wormhole nearly kills her, the two form an unlikely friendship that will alter the course of human history. As Charlie finds a new home and a new family, he and Becca become drawn into a future far larger than either of them imagined: humanity's first attempt to reach another star system.

Blending adventure, survival, friendship, and speculative wonder, Beyond Tomorrow's Sun is the beginning of an epic science-fiction saga about what it means to be human - and what lies waiting for us beyond the horizon.

Author: Ronald McGuire
Publisher: Beach Book Press
Published: 12/01/2024
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9781965621004

Review Citation(s):
PW Booklife Reviews 01/20/2025

About the Author
McGuire, Ronald: - "Ronald McGuire is an American author, essayist, and journalist whose work explores transformation, memory, identity, and the fragile spaces between who we are and who we become. Blending literary and speculative traditions, his fiction often inhabits the liminal territory where the ordinary gives way to the unsettling, the philosophical, and the deeply human.Influenced by classic science fiction authors such as Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and Philip K. Dick, as well as the socially conscious storytelling of Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone, McGuire's work combines speculative imagination with emotional and philosophical introspection. His stories frequently examine how individuals confront change, trauma, technology, mortality, and the unknown - not through grand heroics alone, but through deeply personal moments of reckoning and adaptation.He is the author of the novels Beyond Tomorrow's Sun and Beyond the Rivers of Time, works that merge large-scale science fiction concepts with themes of found family, humanity's place in the cosmos, and the enduring search for meaning and connection. His collection Pax Liminalis continues that exploration through literary, speculative, satirical, and surreal short fiction that reflects both contemporary anxieties and timeless human questions.In addition to fiction, McGuire's work spans essays, journalism, scriptwriting, and editorial development. His nonfiction often explores memory, family, masculinity, grief, media culture, and the lingering effects of generational experience, particularly the ways war, technology, and social change shape personal identity across time. His writing has appeared in publications including Flash Fiction Magazine, Drunk Monkeys, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Winning Writers, and CNN.com.Before turning his focus more fully toward writing and publishing, McGuire spent years working in media operations, content strategy, and technology leadership roles within the entertainment industry, including work connected to large-scale media distribution and streaming operations. That background continues to inform his interest in systems, communication, digital culture, and the evolving relationship between humanity and technology.Originally drawn to storytelling through books, photography, and speculative television anthologies, McGuire continues to explore the intersections between literature, memory, visual art, and philosophy. His work is marked by a recurring fascination with thresholds: between past and future, realism and imagination, loss and reinvention, humor and sorrow, and the known world and the mysteries waiting just beyond it.He lives in Massachusetts."