Spliced: Book One: The Initiative

Spliced is a science-fiction-fantasy series set on an alien invaded Earth in the year 2314.

The aliens known as the Dirge crashed into our planet 200 years ago with every intent on taking over our world. They were smart, adaptable, and aggressive, and we... we were unprepared. The Dirge saw humans as the workforce and our world as fertile and ripe for a takeover. They tried to make our planet more suitable for them by terraforming earth. Our world was forever changed. What it caused drastic changes to our atmosphere and gravity. We lost the capabilities of air travel and space flight in the process, essentially cutting earth off from the rest of the galaxy.

Our best and brightest scientists, with the help of artificial intelligence, devised a way to give humans an advantage in the fight. They called the process Splicing. The procedure involves the combining of animal DNA with human DNA. The first Spliced humans gave us the ability to fight back more effectively. Two centuries later and we are still fighting. The earth is broken. Mankind is scattered in a future filled with cybernetics, androids, elementals, aliens, artificial intelligence, mutants, and mythological monsters.

Enter Keke Jones, newly graduated Lancer for the Knights of Yoruba Enclave, who is out on her first solo contract. This right of passage that all Lancers had to endure went anything but according to plan. Not only does the contract go awry but it opens up old wounds along the way. The deepest of which being that it ties back to her missing brother Darrell. She had said her good-byes but now their was a chance he was alive. To make the situation even more profound, the fate of both humans and alien alike could be forever changed by what she uncovers.

This is the world of Spliced.

M. BEATS IS AN ARTIST, MUSIC AFFICIENADO, HUSBAND, FATHER, PET DAD TO A PRECARIOUS HUSKY, AND AUTHOR. HIS FIRST SERIES SPLICED IS A SCIENCE-FICTION LOVE LETTER TO THE GENRE WITH A SPLASH OF FANTASY AND HORROR MIXED IN.SINCE HIS CHILDHOOD M. BEATS HAS BEEN OBSESSED WITH HIGH STAKES ACTION, WORLD BUILDING AND THE LIMITS OF HUMAN SURVIVAL. HE THRIVES IN THE SPACES WHERE TECHNOLOGY, HUMANITY, AND POSSIBILITY INTERSECT. M. BEATS CREATES METICULOUSLY CRAFTED, DETAILED STORIES OF RESELIENCE, STRUGGLE, AND SEEING WHAT HAPPENS WHEN HUMANITY IS PUSHED TO THE ABSOLUTE EDGE.M. BEATS LIVES ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF PITTSBURGH, PA WITH HIS LOVING FAMILY AND HIS HIGH MAINTENENCE HUSKY, PRINCE. USUALLY WITH A CUP OF COFFEE IN HAND, M. BEATS CAN BE FOUND AT A BOOKSTORE, COMIC BOOK SHOP, OR IN "THE FUNGEON" WORKING ON THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF THE SERIES OR THE NEXT WORLD OF WONDER.JOIN THE FIGHT ALONGSIDE KEKE JONES AND THE REST OF THE INITIATIVE OVER AT SPLICEDTHESERIES.COM.

RAY RAHL IS AN EDUCATOR, WRITER, EDITOR, AND LIFELONG STORYTELLER WITH A PASSION FOR LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND THE STRANGE PLACES WHERE REALITY AND FANTASY BLUR THE LINES.HOLDING DEGREES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND CREATIVE WRITING, RAY'S WORK IS DEEPLY INFLUENCED BY PHSYCOLOGICAL TENSION, HUMAN VULNERABILITY, AND THE DARKER CORNERS OF PERCEPTION. HIS FASCINATION WITH STORYTELLING EVENTUALLY EVOLVED FROM STUDYING LITERATURE TO HELPING SHAPE IT - GUIDING MANUSCRIPTS THROUGH THE STAGES BETWEEN ROUGH DRAFTS AND FINISHED VISIONS.WHEN NOT EDITING, TEACHING, OR WRITING, RAY CAN USUALLY BE FOUND WANDERING BOOKSTORES, ATTENDING COMIC CONVENTIONS, OR CHASING INSPIRATION THROUGH LATE-NIGHT CONVERSATIONS AND LIVE MUSIC.RESIDING IN TEXAS NEAR HIS FAMILY, RAY CONTINUES TO EXPLORE STORIES THAT LINGER IN THE MIND LIKE HALF-REMEMBERED DREAMS - QUIETLY SINKING IN LONG AFTER THE WORDS END.YOU CAN REACH RAY ON FACEBOOK - RAY.RAHL, ON INSTAGRAM - RAYRAHL1313, OR VIA EMAIL - RAYRAHL1313@GMAIL.COM