Sci-fi for Young Adults
Jamess Lewis Huss has authored two science fiction novels for young adults, though the genre and the young adult angst are about the only thing they have in common. Book of Pilgrimage is set three centuries in the future after a plague born in a laboratory escapes and kills everyone over the age of 25, while HomiNed could be right around the corner, a modern novel about a modern (talking) chimpanzee and his modern problems. Both novels are available for purchase on Amazon.
Book of Pilgrimage: Tree of Truth
It ravaged the earth, turning a once-civilized nation into a world where no one lives past 30. The new world is bleak – cities demolished, governments collapsed, hundreds of millions killed by a virus designed to be an agent of control.
In this post-apocalyptic nightmare, a tradition has emerged – the Pilgrimage. At the venerable age of 25, one begins a symbolic quest to find the Cure. The knowledge that each Pilgrim gains on his journey is recorded in his Book of Pilgrimage, all that remains when he is engulfed by the Light and set ablaze upon the pyre.
When 16-year- old Marlowe discovers a dead Pilgrim and reads his Book, it sparks a quest like no other – to a city with doctors who are rumored to hold the Cure to the deadly Disease. Against his family’s wishes, he vows to find this city, and, in doing so, save the woman he loves.
With his beloved Shelley at his side, Marlowe enters the dangerous world outside their village. Together they must face nomads, battle the elements, and overcome their own fears for the future, before the Disease claims them both.
Tree of Truth is a YA post apocalyptic fantasy and Book I in the Book of Pilgrimage Series.
HomiNed
Ned is a freshman in high school and like any normal 15-year-old, he struggles to fit in, goes to parties, drinks, gets in fights, and even experiments with drugs. Then, there’s Hay, the girl he loves. Ned has one other rather unusual challenge—he’s a chimpanzee.
Part of an experimental program, PAN—the Program of Ape iNtegration, Ned can talk, and with speech comes conscience. He is sent to assimilate with humans. He struggles with the nickname HomiNed, though he begins to accept it, he finds will never truly fit in and Hay will never reciprocate the love of a chimpanzee.
Fights, drugs, and trouble with the law set him on a stormy course. His life is caught up in a delicate balancing with an uncertain end.
Other Prose Works
“Hitlerstein” found in The Gathering: A Curated Collection Brought to You by Hollowpoint Press