Sci-fi

>span style="font-weight: 400">>/span>>span style="font-weight: 400">[Premise: First contact between dragons and humans, taking place during the second industrial revolution.]>/span>
    [BOOK 1 COMPLETE. REWRITE IN PROGRESS.]
    >span style="font-weight: 400">What if, billions of years ago, the Earth formed a little differently?>/span>
    >span style="font-weight: 400">A bit less iron, a bit more water, and the first humans evolve upon a lone island, surrounded by vast oceans that span 97.5% of the planet's surface.>/span>
    >span style="font-weight: 400">In the millennia that follow, mankind believes their island to be the only in existence – until the first satellites reveal the existence of two distant lands.>/span>
    >span style="font-weight: 400">Galvanized by this groundbreaking discovery, humanity sends its best and brightest on an expedition, only for a series of disasters to wipe out all but one of the crew. >/span>Now, Doctor Alexander Pryce has the honor of being the first – and only – man to step foot upon another continent.
    >span style="font-weight: 400">It came as no surprise that his arrival drew the attention of the island's native inhabitants – Pryce just didn’t expect one of them to be an inquisitive and intelligent dragon.>/span>
    >span style="font-weight: 400">Stranded but not quite alone, Pryce begins the painstaking process of communicating with another sapient species, and in so doing becomes the sole representative of humanity – one whose actions will determine the future of both their species.>/span>
    >em>A work inspired by Project Hail Mary, The Martian and the Temeraire series.>/em>
    >em>Special thanks to VikasRao on DeviantArt for providing and inspiring ideas for the speculative evolution.>/em>
    >em>Book 2 will begin after the rewrite.>/em>
    >em>Links:>/em>
    >em>Discord server>/em>>em>, where you can ask me whatever questions you like and I'll probably answer them (assuming the answer doesn't involve heavy spoilers)>/em>>em>>/em>
    >em>Ko-fi, if you want to send something my way. Don't worry about the different username, I have an arrangement with Rackiera.>/em>
    >em>Paypal, same as the above.>/em>