Author Dorian Edgerly
Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror/Suspense
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Dorian Edgerly is the author of science fiction, dark fantasy, horror, and suspense. His love of storytelling took hold early on, and became an obsession after graduating from Dr. Suess (still an all-time favorite), to Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Goosebumps.
From there, the gateway was open, and it was an easy transition to 70s, 80s, and 90s paperback pulp. King and Koontz replaced Seuss and Stein, and Dorian spent several years poorly imitating those masters of the craft before expanding his palette to include a much wider range of reading material.
Raised just south of Boston, Dorian grew up in the heart of the infamous "Bridgewater Triangle," and from his earliest days was inundated with "true" stories of the supernatural and extraterrestrial, many of which "occurred" just an easy bike ride from his own front door. Thanks to all of this, combined with his roots in speculative fiction, every dark forest, every quiet, one-thoroughfare town, and every abandoned, dilapidated building speaks to him of hauntings, alien invasions, murderous cults, and unfathomable creatures from the dark beyond.
When he's not writing, you'll find him reading, working out, catching up on movies he should have seen years ago (but didn't, because he was too busy rewatching The Crow, Predator, and Jason Lives), noodling on his guitars, or carefully flipping through the stacks in the nearest mom-and-pop used book store.
Anomaly: The Civic Fleet Chronicles Book 1
We thought we knew our history, but the truth is older and darker than we could have imagined. And now, it's finally caught up to us.
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Three thousand years ago, we lost our homeworld, Vierellum, to the thayne species. The broken remnants of humanity limped into the shadows of the cosmos to start over.
Since then, humanity has lived divided. Those in the Civic Fleet know the truth. The Fleet - a sprawling flotilla of supermassive space stations - is home to millions, almost all of whom are Fleetborn natives.
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The rest of us are here, on a planet we always thought was our own, shielded from the truth for a hundred generations.
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During that time, the thayne have been silent, holding up their end of a millennia-old truce.
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But when an unidentified stealth ship lurks into Civic Fleet space, everyone in the Fleet is reminded how fragile our existence really is, and everyone on Earth is about to find out.
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Excellent world building, characters and plot. Yes there are surprises and no you won't be disappointed. A fresh take on alien invasion that will leave you satisfied.
-Amazon Review
Praise & Reviews
...This was good, solid story telling.
I am waiting on Book 2 already.
-Amazon Review
Reader Testimonials
...I look forward to more from this author... It may be just my taste in science fiction but this is one of my favorites.
Goodreads Review
They appear without warning. Pale. Motionless. Watching through featureless faces. Sophia Landry calls them the plain people, and ever since her mother’s mysterious drowning, they’ve been showing up in the dark corners of Sophie’s world. Her father can’t see them. Her teachers don’t believe her. Everyone thinks it’s just Sophie’s grief manifesting itself.
But one man is starting to understand.
Dr. Simon Reed was trained to find psychological patterns, not monsters. But something about the girl’s story — and the sordid history of Lake Saugus — keeps pulling him deeper. And the deeper he digs, the more he dreams of black, frigid waters, and of the whispering, ancient evil that sleeps under the silt of the lake’s floor.