Light is Parasite
Pete Turner Farrar
Type: ARC
Genre: Science fiction, romance, philosophical fiction
Word count: 68,000
Light is Parasite is a conceptual exploration of memory, love, suffering, and the exploitative nature of a society. A blend of dystopia, philosophical sci-fi, and a tense romance with LGBTQ+ themes. An original story with deep emotional resonance and unique ideas at its heart telling of an alien world riven by human frailty.
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Tij is redemption, lonely, immortal. She reaps memory to feed the ravenous star at the centre of the world, and the harvest is almost complete. Enid, her lover, is in agony, burning with memory of a life Tij does not want to take. Pain is twisting her love for Tij into hate. Meco hunts those who run from the harvest of memories. All he has is purpose: vital and isolated, he haunts a world he does not feel part of.
The Engine flies in-between Star and sphere. From here, Control rules the world – but each harvest is smaller than the one before, and the Star will feed off the world one way or another. Only joy burns as fuel. Everything else is filtered by Robot: it is from this pollution that the future will be decided.
Pete grew up in a forlorn post-industrial town, the eldest son in a family of broken dreamers.
He married his wonderful husband in Las Vegas after 18 years relationship travelling the world eating, drinking and getting gloriously lost.
A diagnosis of Bi-Polar came as no surprise to his long-suffering friends or his former employers – Pete has had dozens of jobs including a tree surgeon, drummer, IT consultant and manager of a ruined abbey (it was ruined when I got there). Light is Parasite is his first novel, and he is currently writing a collection of short stories Bitter Sweet Psalms.
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