The Vatican Wicked Ghosts of the Helium Waste: Book 1

The Vatican Wicked
Ghosts of the Helium Waste: Book 1

The year is 2714. Four centuries after mankind loses the planet surface, humanity floats on manmade civilizations in the sky - we call them Gabrum. The Vatican is a Gabrum of four million citizens. One of those citizens is Elthi Brack, a newlywed helominer.

After a mad clergyman frames her for a terrorist attack, Elthi's friends and husband cover her escape. Now, a pregnant fugitive, she races against time to survive, find allies, and save her family from the Church.
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""Complex characters and relationships; an inventive setting with intellectually satisfying futuristic science. And Gabriel is hands-down the best AI ever."
- RC Hipp, Author of 'Proper Magic'
"My son tried to get me into 'Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.' You're a lot like that."
- A nice lady on a plane - big fan of Twilight."

The Saga of Elthi Brack the Wyrmkiller is an original tale of desperate rescues and pulp-fiction tech-based-terrors, but the cadence is Suzanne Collins' 'The Hunger Games" in a blender with Harry Potter. The plot, inspired by my own experience of criminal vagrancy, moves briskly to a climactic end in every chapter. This book is 'cliffhanger-heavy.'

This book is First-Person Action Science-Fiction, set in a fictional 28th century.

In the future, mankind destroys the planet surface, and relocates onto floating continents in the sky. To complicate matters, before we leave the surface, we weaponize an atmospheric layer of whirling helium and metal.
We call this layer the Lightning Cloud.

Book 2 is available now (entitled "The Red Dome," and Book 3 will follow soon. Nine books are planned for the series, and they are listed as follows:

Ghosts of the Helium Waste Saga
Book 1: The Vatican Wicked
Book 2: The Red Dome
Book 3: The Animus Strikes Back
Book 4: Assault on New Roma
Book 5: IndoChina Attacks!
Book 6: Botfall
Book 7: Hello World
Book 8: Rise of the Sapiens
Book 9: The Infinity Algorithm
Here's a meaningless percentage breakdown that nevertheless suggests the flavor of the overall work. Ghosts of the Helium Waste is...
25% Suzanne Collins
20% Douglas Adams
15% JK Rowling
10% JRR Tolkien
8% Philip K Dick
7% Heinlein
5% Stanley Kubrick
4% David Mamet
3% George RR Martin
2% Stephanie Meyer
{100% JD Hipp}
Elthi Brack will return.