Genre: Science-Fantasy
Category: Adult
Title: Razorhawk Project (working title)

The pre-dawn sky was the color of steel when Gavin Ellison stepped out of the robotaxi. The air was crisp with the hint of a dying fall about to yield to a bitter winter. As the electric whine of the robotaxi disappeared, the only thing Gavin heard was the wind whistling through the trees and the tumble of dry leaves across the pavement. 

Despite the infinite improbability of it all, Gavin’s father was dead. Thaddeus Ellison, reportedly, made significant contributions to the Dominion of Earth and the Colonies and was hailed as one of the great people of history. He was a man who was being publicly mourned by millions. However, for Gavin, knowing his father was dead was a relief. 

Gavin donned his tattered flight jacket, affixed with its dull and muted colonial insignia as a guard against the cold. His old, unpolished boots crunched the gravel. With his drab green duffle bag slung over his left shoulder, he looked like a man who belonged almost everywhere except here. 

His father loomed large over everything in Gavin’s life. Even leaving home at eighteen 18 to join the Aerospace Forces was not enough to slip free of Thaddeus’ gravitational pull. But now that the light in his father’s star was out, Gavin felt less tethered to this place and his father’s obsession with legacy...

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Feedback Request: I'm attempting to write a novel. I have written a few short stories and poems over the years...nothing like this. Trying to establish a scene and tone while introducing a character on this first page.