World Without Rain is available in eBook, Black & White Print, and Color Print formats.
This is the Black and White paperback edition of World Without Rain.
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The year is 2238. It's been raining for two-hundred years.
The Earth is drowning.
Starry-eyed inventor Stuart Irving has opened a dimensional rift to another world... a world without rain. His rift generator is the solution to Earth's problems, but Cor Armstead, a ruthless industrialist who has the young scientist under his thumb, will stop at nothing - not treason, not murder, not open warfare - to claim everything beyond the rift as his own.
So begins an adventure for which Irving finds himself spectacularly unprepared. He escapes through the rift only to crash land in an alternate reality more terrifying than the one he left. Genetically engineered monsters stalk a primitive landscape littered with the wreckage of past civilization. Humanity survives by never stepping foot on solid ground. This is a world of hydrogen airships, bolt-action rifles, steam engines, and subterfuge - of blistering air combat where a single bullet can incinerate an entire crew. In this world, airmen unflinchingly accept one of two inevitable deaths: the fire or the fall.
It's a world that should chew Irving up and spit him out without a second thought, but he's spared by an unlikely ally. Quick-witted force-of-nature Marie Beck, the overconfident daughter of a passing airship captain, has her own reasons for keeping Irving alive. She offers aid but is determined to drag him along on a quest to save her people. It's far too late to turn back when Irving finally discovers that her promise of assistance comes with a hefty dose of half-truths, clever tricks, and outright lies.
When Armstead's invasion boils through the rift, cultures and technologies clash in spectacular fashion. As airships deal death in the sky and monsters rage on the ground, it will take nothing less than a miracle for Irving to set aside his fears, summon what little courage he has, and embrace the dangerous rules of this strange new world: win, surrender, or die.
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World Without Rain is the first book of this series and the beginning of Stuart Irving and Marie Beck's adventures beyond the rift. More information about the series and the author is available at: www.imperialsolutions.com.
