Colonus

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The future: a dying Earth has been abandoned, the poor and weak left behind. While Earth's elite survivors colonised Mars, its outcasts, the miscreants, criminals, fringe-dwellers, crackpot scientists, and sociopaths, fled inward, to Venus ('a place fit for scumbags'). Three generations later the denizens of Venus, strengthened by hardship forged in brutality and hellish conditions, are thriving. Attracted by the successful launch of Venus's second floating cloud city, the corporate fascists of the Mars Council launch an insurgency for control of Venus.

Author Bio

A member of the Writers Guild of America since 2003, Ken Pisani is an Emmy-nominated television producer and writer. His first novel, "AMP'D," will be published by St. Martin's Press in spring 2016. Ken's original sci-fi graphic novel, "Colonus," winner of the 2013 Geekie Award for Best Comic Book, is published by Dark Horse Comics in their multiple -award-winning anthology "Dark Horse Presents." Ken's original play about retired rival boxers of the civil rights era, "Glove Story," available on Amazon, was a finalist for the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and selected to the 2014 D.C. Black Theatre Festival. His short story, "My Brother Died And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt," was first published in the U.S. and U.K. anthology "More Tonto Short Stories," also available on Amazon. Ken is currently working on a variety of projects for film and television, including a feature screenplay co-written with David Seidler ("The King's Speech"), and a new novel.