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    Starstruck Hero
    Starstruck Hero
    Starstruck Hero
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    Starstruck Hero

    By Bev Robitai

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    Sunstrike - what happens when a massive solar storm knocks out the world's electronic technology. Starstruck Hero follows one of the minor characters from the novel Sunstrike as he deals with the sudden absence of transport, communication and electricity.
    Clint lives his life as if he's the hero of every movie he's ever seen. He drives like Jason Statham in The Transporter, rides like John Wayne, and would fly like Top Gun if he ever got the chance. When he’s thrust into a major disaster, he reacts with confidence and style, leading others from danger and caring for the helpless. But despite his bravery, he can’t protect his family from the terrible repercussions when sunstrike hits and the solar storm knocks out technology right across the planet.
    This is a relatively gentle post-apocalyptic story, free from zombies or aliens, but dealing with the end of the world as we know it.
    This is a spin-off story from Sunstrike, a novel featuring Averie Brown as she learns to survive in a post-technology world. In suburban Auckland, she finds the disaster shakes her out of her rut as she learns new skills to survive. After her previous uneventful life, still mourning the loss of her husband and missing her absent son, she finds the new challenge a welcome adventure as members of her neighbourhood rally to support each other against the fear of a cold and hungry winter. But the teenage waif she takes under her wing is not all he seems.
    Scientific research on the effects of solar flares on earth is worryingly inconclusive. It’s agreed a big eruption on the sun’s surface would send large quantities of electro-magnetic energy streaming past the earth causing severe damage to high-voltage transmission lines, and that alone would stop the provision of electricity for months if not years. The Sunstrike stories explore what might happen next.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBev Robitai
    Release dateDec 8, 2013
    ISBN9781311582027
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    Bev Robitai

    Bev Robitai currently works as a writer, book coach, and freelance photographer in Auckland, New Zealand. She writes mostly light crime fiction, sometimes based in the theatre and sometimes straying into post-apocalyptic sci-fi. Her novel Murder in the Second Row was launched in June 2010 in a historic theatre that was also used as the setting for Body on the Stage. A decade of backstage experience gave her the raw material for both books and a third is under way. A stand-alone novel Eye for an Eye is the tale of a quest for justice, inspired by the actions of a real-life conman whose trail of victims made the author angry enough to imagine retribution - in some very inventive ways... The Sunstrike novels are set in a post-apocalyptic present day world when a major solar storm has wiped out all electrical technology. They are optimistic survival adventures following normal people learning and adapting to difficult new circumstances.

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      Starstruck Hero - Bev Robitai

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      Bev Robitai

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      A spin-off story from the novel Sunstrike

      Copyright Bev Robitai 2013

      As the highway narrowed after the passing lane, Clint Bergham groaned aloud and took his foot off the accelerator, resigned to another seven minutes of traffic tedium until the next opportunity to overtake. The grey BMW ahead of him had been in his sights from just outside Hamilton and he was damned if he’d let the guy reach Auckland ahead of him.

      This month’s business trip had gone well, he thought. He’d been wheeling

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