The Wilds — James Derry

Walt and Samuel Starboard. Miriam and Virginia Bridge. Four travelers entered the mysterious City-Ship of Marathon, but only three made it out.

Now our heroes are faced with a new, more existential threat. An invader from Mother Earth has arrived on Idyll -- an outlaw psychopath who will use Terran technology to establish himself as the planet's ultimate creator-destroyer.

And to make matters worse -- he's brought company.

To stop this ‘outcaster,' Marathon's survivors will fight their way through a demolished starship, under the bowels of their planet, across untamed wilds -- and into a stark white desert unlike anyplace they have ever imagined. But will it be enough to save Idyll from certain doom?

Continuing the story started in 2015's IDYLL, THE WILDS is jam-packed with plasma-gun shoot-outs, a love triangle that spans an ocean, and ‘Lord of the Flies'-style suspense. If that sounds like your kind of character-driven sci-fi goodness, then you should check it out!