Local Author Publishes Second Skidian Chronicle Sci Fi Novel on Amazon Kindle
Auckland NZ, December 29 12 2013 – Auckland writer, Keith Fenwick, has released the second Kiwi themed satirical science
fiction novel in the Skidian Chronicles trilogy; The Second Coming. This is Keith Fenwick’s second novel.
In his first novel “Skid - The First Chronicle” Keith Fenwick takes us to a highly sophisticated world where civilization is about to fall apart in a spectacular
fashion. A world whose leader’s arrogantly assume that they can do no wrong in the face of the dangerous signs of a
disintegrating world around them.
In the Second Coming Skid has undergone the apocalypse signaled in the first novel, now revealed to be the work of the
malfunctioning computer intelligence charged with maintaining Skidian society as the most powerful and sophisticated in
the known universe.
The Second Coming follows the main human characters, now back on planet earth, grappling with a gap in their lives they
cannot explain and details the almost complete disintegration of a once powerful and sophisticated society. Skid once
had a population that numbered in the hundreds of millions. By the time the story returns to the planet Skid after a
short and eventful interlude on planet earth where a new pivotal Skidian character emerges and treats the locals with
complete disdain, the population has dwindled to several thousand Skidians eking out a basic living as best they can.
The Second Coming reminds us how fragile a flower intelligent life is in our universe and how close we all are
individually and collectively from disaster that threatens our way of life. One drunken miss step, one line of rogue
code, one random, unprecedented incident on top of an unfolding disaster and it could be the end of most of us.
Reviewer Andrew Baker says, ‘I found the book quite fun, especially when I got to the meat of it. It's quite comical and
some of the adventure and action made it so I had to keep reading on past my bed time. The Second Coming turned out to
be a fun and funny read and I would recommend it to anyone that has the endurance for longer, slower adult science
fiction novels.
ENDS