The book is Draigkhiun and started out as a series of narratives that I'd run through my head to keep myself entertained while walking rounds and feeding fish back in my fish culture days. It was something I started back in 1999 but didn't actually finish until early 2006. Here's one of my back cover blurbs:
Perhaps, if there's enough interest, I'll dust off the drafts of the continuing saga of one Caleb Lonnergan?“I looked out at the rising sun. It formed a beautiful, translucently violet horizon where the curve of Andowhan ended and space began. There must be some real meaning, out there, but I felt isolated and constrained from it…” And on a morning of fitful, waking dreams, Caleb Lonnergan found his life finally breaking beyond those constraints with the inevitability of the change of seasons at his family’s home.The youngest of three sons, Caleb chafed at the well-intentioned sheltering and indulgence of his extended family as they sought to keep him in the role of a traditionally dutiful Shondrean son. Mostly they sought to keep him unexposed to the jeopardy of a civilization that had already claimed the life of his oldest brother. He was safe in a life of trepidation and self-commiseration.The change came in a letter from his father’s twin brother, Malakai, fulfilling a promise made during a drunken visit. Malakai offers Caleb a job in a Colonial project which is scorned by many and feared by most. The battleground for a brutal war, it has been seen as a waste of resources in the decades of peace that followed. This project is the re-colonization of the home from which Caleb’s civilization once fled—Earth.Caleb impulsively accepts his uncle’s offer, having always been fascinated by tales of the dangerous, ancient planet. He soon learns there is more to the offer and experiences the real dangers that lay everywhere but the devastated birthplace of humanity.
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