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"Escape from St. Arned" is the sequel to my novel "Basecraft Cirrostratus." It was released at RainFurrest in 2014.
From the cover:
Elor, Laz, and Vinz thought their troubles were over. After a narrow escape from their ordeal on the Basecraft Cirrostratus, the three of them settled down to a quiet life in the suburbs of Lycocia... until their past caught up with them.
Now, every affair they had, every corner they cut, every lie they told, and every splinter of the empire they helped topple has come back to haunt them in this exciting sequel to the award-nominated novel "Basecraft Cirrostratus."
Cover art by Soro. All credit goes to him for producing an attractive cover on very short notice!
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It was more than gender. It was about my entire life catastrophically being redefined and all the loose ends coming back to haunt me. When it was all said and done the falsehoods were destroyed and I found the real me, the ethos behind the lies. The characters go through the same thing here.
To an extent, it's also a story that many furries who fall in love in online environments can find common ground with: when the roleplay is over, the feelings are real and you have to own them or they'll never let you be.
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Just finished it tonight. It's a nice wrap for the Basecraft Cirrostratus, and perhaps a bit too... Well wrapped? Well, maybe just too fast. I can see how you made St Arned reflect the Basecraft, the same way you made Goldenlea reflect with The Linen Butterfly. And not only on the story level, but probably as a reflection on your own writing style. Something different emerges at the end of both "second-stage" books (St.Arned and Linen Butterfly) in regards to the "first-stage" (Basecraft and Goldenlea), very different yet very same at it's core... Like the reality itself changed it's meaning. I might be jumping a few steps here, but here, at some level of understanding it might follow your own gender transition. It's open for discussion of course.
My favorite scene is the moonlight boat scene with Vinz and Bram. There's some serious nostalgia in there.
Second best is when Laz explores the forgotten underbelly of flying Basecraft, a place where memories become physical. And then, in last chapters, we see that what seemed to be physical, was in fact only an emotional landscape. Another transformation. Then the real physical landscape transforms back into emotional, when Laz decides to rent a car and all that (spoilers!). Another memorable is when Kerro drinks to the memory presumably dead Lucky Kaya.
Would I change anything about the book? Actually, no. It's fine as it is. Vimana Incident is still my favorite.