Refraction

Description

A loner cursed with a psychic power learns he was part of an illicit experiment as a baby and embarks on a perilous hunt to find those responsible. If Aiden Manchester had to have a superpower, why couldn't it be something useful like predicting the future? Or Jedi mind tricks? Instead, he's afflicted with manifestations, balls of goo which materialise in midair while he sleeps. But then Aidan learns he was a 'Quiver Kid'; one of seven orphaned babies drafted for an illicit experiment at Tau Nine-One. Setting out to find the experimenters and his fellow victims, Aiden's quest turns lethal when he's kidnapped by a maniacal Quiver Kid with a dark agenda. As he uncovers dangerous truths about his past, Aiden's very essence is called into question. Will a hellish confrontation at Tau Nine-One reveal the ultimate purpose of the Quiver Kids?

CHRISTOPHER HINZ is the author of seven science fiction books. Liege-Killer won the Compton Crook Award for best first novel and was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer. He has written screenplays and a graphic novel, scripted comics for DC and Marvel, and has worked as a newspaper reporter and technical administrator of a small TV station.

"Readers will be hooked." - Publishers Weekly "Hinz is nothing less than a natural-born storyteller" - SFReviews.net "Beautifully paced, crisply written...just begging to be made into a movie." - Amazing Stories