One year ago, Indianapolis author Dale E. McClenning’s Awakening Earth science fiction trilogy came to a conclusion. However, one question remained: what happened to the people taken from Earth at the end of Innocent Earth? Now, in McClenning’s new book, Altaterra, that question is answered.
Altaterra picks up three hundred years after twenty-five thousand humans were taken from Earth and delivered to an undeveloped world. Technology has devolved as materials and parts to repair it become scarce, until rumours of ore send a scientific expedition to distant mountains. What it finds instead shakes the foundations of society on this distant colony world.
Featuring the same kind of fun character interactions that critics lauded in the Awakening Earth books, Altaterra takes readers on a cross-country journey through foreign lands haunted with prehistoric creatures and alien infestations. With lower tech and an adventurous theme, the book will appeal to adult and teen fans of soft science fiction, hard fantasy, and adventure stories in general like The Mandalorian. Altaterra will be released August 11th in trade paperback and ebook formats, with pre-release copies available during Gen Con in Indianapolis August 3-6. The cover art will be revealed and preorders will open April 21.
This is the fourth book from McClenning published by Canadian science fiction and fantasy press Brain Lag, following up Innocent Earth (2019), Divided Earth (2020), and Rebel Earth (2022). He also had an original short story in the anthology The Light Between Stars (2020). McClenning is transitioning from a job as a mechanical engineer in controls and project work into a full-time author. He is married with two children and a granddaughter, who is still waiting for the book inspired by her to be published.
Altaterra will be Brain Lag’s 48th title and joins several other critically-acclaimed genre-bending titles. This is the publisher’s seventh release of eleven planned for 2023.
Media inquiries and requests to contact the author can be directed to publishing@brain-lag.com.
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