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Flagrant Self Promotion - Climbing Novel 5-Jun-2012 At 1:10:13 PM ARidgley

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Cool bananas. Very much appreciated. Unfortunately, Amazon don't do discounts. I could EFT 50c (half my royalty) to those with proof of purchase ;). This is certainly not a money making venture.

In terms of climbing, the first third of it is set at Arapiles and includes climbs such as Kachoong, Bard, Tiptoe Ridge (night) and Tarantula. There is also Warraumbungles (Cornerstone Rib), Squamish (Grand Wall) and Joshua Tree (Run for Your Life). It's fiction, but draws heavily from some of my small adventures.

The genre is hard to describe - adventure, science based semi-fiction, philosophy, mystery, thriller, comedy ... lots of elements without falling into any one category.

The plot is a tad hard to reveal without giving it away. It's based on a science concept that I came up with many years ago. It has something to do with evolution. Here's the prese I posted on Amazon.

"Charles (Chaz) Perez Del Rio is a philosopher, a rockclimber and a geneticist, not necessarily in that order. During a climbing holiday at Mt Arapiles a notion germinates deep within him that he just can’t shake. There is something terribly wrong with the world and the humanity that continues to shape it. So starts a physical and mental journey that Chaz mistakenly believes is of his making. It leads to his discovery of the meaning of it all: all past, all present, all future - everything. He holds the key to mankind’s utopia, a utopia that the universe will share, the future that was always meant to be. But there is a catch - is mankind worthy of the knowing? The alternative is annihilation."

Anyway, jump on this link and you can read the first few chapters as a sample. It is a Kindle book so you'll need a Kindle or a free app (for computer, smart phone, etc) to read the whole thing (you can read the sample on the amazon website with a browser). Let me know if you need help with kindle apps. I've learnt so much over the past few months that now I'm only semi-illiterate when it comes to e-books.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Universe-Within-ebook/dp/B007FMWT6O/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1330599723&sr=1-1#_

Edit: I somehow neglected the title. It's call 'The Universe Within'.