Beyond the Crystal Sky

On a dying multi-generation spaceship, where rigid Protocols govern every aspect of life, one girl, silenced and excluded, risks everything to save her home.

Possessed of unique genetic gifts, 17-year-old Perdit pursues a dream of joining the Navcrew and confronting the threat that nearly destroyed life on her deck as a child, only to have her ambitions thwarted by a corrupt administration that values her only as a potential birth mother.

With the environment collapsing, Perdit undertakes a heroic mission to overcome self-doubt, transgress boundaries, gather allies, and get answers, while facing off against paranoid cabals, alien attacks, and an AI that subjects her to invasive tests to prove her worthiness.

A story for readers who love classic space adventure, dystopian futures, courageous heroines, and robots.

Glen C. Strathy has been an actor, a teacher, and since 1999 a professional writer. He is the author of the IPPY award-winning middle-grade novel, Dancing on the Inside, co-author of a New York Times Bestselling business book, and spent over a decade as a freelance writer and creative writing teacher. Since 2008, his website, www.how-to-write-a-book-now.com has offered tips and advice to aspiring authors.But long before any of that, when he was barely 11 years old, he became an avid reader of science fiction. Classic works of space opera and science fiction adventure from the 1950s and 1960s percolated in the back of his head, eventually becoming the inspiration for this novel. Glen lives with his wife and daughter in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.