The Quest for Orichalcum — out today! #QuestforOh #booksky

The Quest for Orichalcum: an asteroid miners’ memoir is out today! It’s the prequel to the Viridian System series, explaining what the boys did before they became rich…

Read on for some interesting stuff plus a raffle!

The Quest for Orichalcum (Viridian System #0.5)

An asteroid miners’ memoir

by Jemima Pett

This memoir of Big Pete and the Swede is a prequel to the Viridian System series. Hang out with your favourite asteroid miners, discovering how they met, their adventures and misadventures, and the truth behind the rumours.

• What adventures did they have before they reached the Viridium System?
• Did Lars murder someone?
• Is Pete invincible at arm-wrestling?
• Have either ever really loved someone?
• How did they get to be so rich?
• Did luck or fate make them the best orichalcum miners in the galaxy?
• And were they always successful with women?

All these questions are addressed in the Quest for Orichalcum, a memoir of your favourite asteroid miners, from before the days when instacomms enabled real connectivity through the galaxy. Before anyone knew what orichalcum was, or could do for civilisations throughout the universe. This is a gathering of tales of the men, their women, their extracurricular activities, disasters, deaths, murders, and surfing. And all before anyone but the people of Corsair had ever heard of the Perihelix.

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My favourite quotes

Pete ignored the girls sunning themselves on Zito’s doorstep and headed for the shuttle. What a dreadful place. He’d never live here.

“No, you’ll have to talk some before I free your wrists. It’s dangerous enough letting your teeth out of armour.” Lars ripped the tape off.

Lars just couldn’t remember when he’d last asked a girl to go to bed with him, and from memory, at least the last four had taken him to theirs. Well, Sylvia had taken him to his–and to the cleaners. 

Anton gave Pete the controls for the way home, with just a little instruction. “So you learnt all about flyers except how to fly them?”
“Yeah, well, you can’t really do the practical aspects from the books.”
Anton pointed out the simulator.

The miners’ code of conduct: in Zito’s bar “it consists of no spitting, no fighting, and no peeing on the premises other than in the proper receptacle. In other establishments, standards are not so burdensome.”

Buy the Book – out today!

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You can also get the book in paperback format. To keep the price down, it’s not on general circulation, but you can buy it at Blurb here.

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