Book For Sale | THE FOUNDRY
the first in a series of rundowns on the books and writing I have for sale and available to presell
THE FOUNDRY
By Ophelia Everfall
Book one in a series of six. This is the readiest to print thing I have written right now in novel format. It’s 85k words. It’s composed of four twelve-chapter parts. It’s bold and transgressive but consistently worth it for the surprise and exultation and excitement and ideologies which run through it.
The Foundry is an institution of timeless war made into a place of learning and governance for a solar system that is uniquely oriented with a haven-like ocean planet and a gas giant in orbit of the sun beside each other.
Themes arise throughout of personal becoming and deconstructing hierarchy from the inside out by means of ferocious wielding of voice and willpower.
Foundry pilots fly warships which transform to mechs and hold them inside physically, while sporting reared higher intelligences which are brought to existence by the pilots themselves. Every warship is unique and designable in any way via simulations which Foundry initiates must earn the right to make real.
Simulations can get so real they kill you inside them. But there are all levels of immersion and simulations are used to train—also for useful narrative diversions.
Deconstructing ‘New Adult’ into something that doesn’t glorify regressive political ideologies and shows true reflection of psychological truth regarding interpersonal conflicts—rather than what seems to be the universal trope; uplifting lies of the past through regurgitation. The Foundry is socialist and Echo, from Earth, pushes it farther into embracing ideas of definitional communism (not Marxism).
I’m open to massaging this how it needs to be—the point is though, that it’s filled with chapters that slap. FILLED. All of my books are because I write them like serialized television—one chapter at a time—flowing—and making it work. It works. My stories comes together better than a plan every time and you can tell. I have ideations which carry me forward that sometimes change and sometimes prove exactly right, but I just go. Right from the beginning I’m lost and I love it. That’s why I write so fast once I get rolling on a book. The second half is like spreading peanut-butter and I want to know what happens more than anyone could ever imagine.
The final chapters and endings of books written this way are transcendental experiences of creation—showing back foreshadowing unknown throughout—seeing pre-named part titles blaring entendres atop another unplanned. The subconscious is a powerful thing, yo.
The Foundry needs an edit and that’s really it. It’s highly readable and enjoyable—each chapter was worked into very good shape—there are just issues with my punctuation and sentence structuring which need a bit of loving to push it over the edge into what I believe would be highly valued by a big-name speculative fiction publisher. My newer writing has elevated in that regard, and maybe too much.
Tor and Orbit have my eye.
CHAPTERS OF REFERENCE
Chapter Three — This is where the hook sinks deepest. First two are solid for building up Echo into a developing character of interest. This plunges her earned respect with the audience to set the stakes most fully.
I would wager this chapter gets over Rory as a character and the drama between her and Echo better than anything of the like.
Chapter Four — Watch Echo do Echo. My main character does the worst shit imaginable, shames herself to others, losses respect with the readers, and then gets back over like no other on the next chapter effortlessly. It’s her move.
Chapter Eight— Simulation showdown. This is the bossest thang.
Chapter Fourteen - Take a trip to Darkside
Chapter Twenty-Two - Hypest Hype that ever Hyped
Chapter Twenty-Three - Penultimate Showdown for Echo/Rory Rivalry
Chapter Twenty-Four - This is the close of the second part. Only makes sense to finish for that conclusion when you’ve read the two previous. It’s powerful and could be the end to its own book, but better this way. Once you start part three ‘it’s on.’
Chapter Thirty - Wrastlin Simulation made by Echo (she’s from Earth)
Chapter Thirty—Three - The beginning of a three-chapter arc concluding in a most excellent action storytelling experience. (Get Fourteen first) Obfuscated suspense and humor and action oh my. First mention of type-situations.
Chapter Thirty-Four - Build up into Thirty-Five. Teasiest obfuscation ever written.
Chapter Thirty-Five - One of the best action sequences of all time. Read Chapter Fourteen first.
Re: 33-35 - I was on a thing about using plainest subtext to troll people meta-like about how I’m writing chapters with huge, obfuscated openings which throw everything into full speed. It’s silly but there is a theme of this book about not taking everything so seriously and allowing yourself to be a kid again, even while doing the hardest of things.
Chapter Thirty-Eight - Echo going OFF about politics.
Chapter Forty-Two - This is what my Undroth Hegmony villain ship looks like on the inside.
Chapter Forty-Six - This is chapter Forty-Six of The Foundry.
Chapter Forty-Eight - Cheat the end. It’s wildly well done. Read Chapter Three first.
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