Sun Moon – signing
I’m really excited and grateful that Insomnia Publications has signed Sun Moon. I’ve been kicking around the idea in one form or another since before The Ionmonger’s Daughter and the opportunity to realise it now, as a graphic novel, is fantastic.
It is great keeping Sun Moon in the family, so to speak. Working with Larry and Insomnia on The Ionmonger’s Daughter has been a delight. Chatting with people on Twitter, reading people’s blogs, it is obvious everyone who is part of Insomnia is doing work they love, and it shows in the atmosphere and attitude of all involved.
Sun Moon
One ageing, one eternally young, two lovers must overcome the growing gulf, as their differing social classes remain locked in an endless cycle of oppression.
Sun Moon is the story of star and time crossed lovers, set against a backdrop of environmental disaster and segregation.
One of the underclass, Leto is the son of a cryogenic engineer and destined to follow in his father’s footsteps. A member of the ruling elite, Selene is a young and gifted scientist and one of Leto’s cryogenically frozen charges. As the years pass they fall in love, against the conventions of their segregated society and the counsel of their friends and peers.
For Leto their affair is a few brief days grabbed every few years, for Selene it is the passage of weeks, watching him grow from a boy to a man much older than her.
Together they journey aboard a city-like spaceship towards the promise of a new world and a new beginning. They leave behind them an overexploited, polluted and no longer habitable world, which Leto and generations of his class have never known.
They live in a rigid society, where at any given time the vast majority of the ruling elite rest in cryogenic sleep. Awoken every three years to undergo health checks, members of the elite live in luxury before handing over to the next group to be revived. In contrast the underclass are born, live their lives and die maintaining and running the ship. From the cryogenic suites to the hellish cathedrals of the vast engine rooms they toil in an endless endeavour.