Release date: March 11, 2018
Subgenre: Humorous Science Fiction, Alien Contact
About hypnoSnatch:
In the far future, young human Antaska travels to outer space with a
gigantic alien. She brings her psychic cat along. Mischievous but evil
part-reptile humanoids team up with Antaska’s nemesis--a genetically
enhanced fitness instructor--to take revenge on her, but a dangerous
alien kidnaps her and spoils their plans. Love and its dark side meet in
this fast-paced science fiction dark comedy.
Alien Pets, formerly Pets and Masters in Space by Elfa Todari (a pen name for Trisha McNary), is the prequel to this book.
Excerpt:
Prologue
Over one million years in the future, an alien spaceship returned
from Earth to its home planet. Antaska, a young adult human, had
accepted a job as assistant to M. Hoyvil, an eight-foot-tall
Verdante alien. Antaska brought her telepathic cat Potat along on
this exploratory journey to outer space.
On the two-month trip from Earth, exposure to the powerful Verdante
telepaths had broken Antaska’s natural human barriers to telepathy.
Staying in denial was no longer an option. Antaska could hear and
understand the telepathic words of the Verdantes and even the
mental speech of little Potat. But she hadn’t told M. Hoyvil yet.
If the Verdantes knew, they wouldn’t allow her to travel with them.
They valued humans as companions for their lack of telepathic
abilities. It was uncomfortable for Verdantes to be around their
own kind for long because they had to maintain emotionally cold
mental shields to keep from reading each other’s thoughts.
Antaska needed time to think over some confusing things she had
heard the Verdantes saying mentally to each other. For one thing,
it seemed like this wasn’t a typical job. And she had often heard
the word ‘pet’ when the Verdantes were talking about their human
companions. Also, M. Hoyvil, although 650 years old, was only an
adolescent, not an adult. And the Verdantes didn’t allow their
females to travel in outer space for some reason having to do with
mental telepathy.
“Don’t tell him yet,” advised the little gray and white cat. “Do
you want to be stuck on one boring planet for the rest of our
lives?”
“OK, I’ll wait, but I hate deceiving him like that,” said Antaska.
“You’re not deceiving him, you’re just waiting till the time is
right--like as soon as we get moving into warp space,” said Potat,
who had always been able to persuade Antaska to her point of view
even before Antaska became telepathic.
Chapter 1
Several hours later, Antaska sat engulfed in the deep cushions of
an enormous blue chair. Three other humans sat facing her in
similar chairs arranged around a floating stone table. Flickering
flames crackled in a huge stone fireplace nearby, muffling their
voices. The chairs faced the far side of the large, cavernous room.
There, ten-foot-tall, beautiful, and pale green Mizz Bawbaw lounged
on an enormous adult Verdante-sized divan.
The three resident humans kept their words soft and sparse, and
Antaska took a cue from them, answering and speaking in the same
way. The conversation moved at a slow pace. Many pauses to sip a
hot brown liquid from delicate but hard plasti-mold cups. More
pauses to nibble crumbly food items provided on small plates on the
floating table.
“So tell me my dear, have you bonded yet?” Tabxi, an elderly human
female, asked Antaska.
Antaska considered the question. ‘Bonded?’ She looked toward Tabxi
and Vorche, an elderly man sitting next to Tabxi. On Vorche’s other
side was a younger man, Zapop, whose soulful golden eyes were
focused across the room on Mizz Bawbaw. Antaska’s turned to look at
each of the humans. Her slight movement swished and rustled satiny
petticoats under a voluminous gray skirt.
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About Trisha McNary:
One day about four years ago, after a having a vivid dream about
aliens the night before, I had to drive across my state to an
appointment. The sky started pouring down unexpected snow, even though
it was early spring. The trip that should have taken four hours turned
into four hours just to get a third of the way. During that time, I
started writing a book in my head based on that dream--or maybe the book
started writing itself. I never made it to that appointment, but when I
got back, I felt like I had to write that book. In the years that
followed, more dreams came that filled in the plot for two entire books.
I published the prequel, Alien Pets, in 2014 and hypnoSnatch in March 2018. Another dream began the plot for part 2. I've started work on it and hope to publish in September.
I published the prequel, Alien Pets, in 2014 and hypnoSnatch in March 2018. Another dream began the plot for part 2. I've started work on it and hope to publish in September.
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