Kyrathaba Rising

170 years from now, aliens decimate Earth. A relative handful of humans survive, hidden in deep subterranean enclaves that offer some protection from surface radiation. Although the main attack is now seven years in the past, one alien ship remains in orbit, and the conquerors are not content merely to let humanity lick its wounds...

Kyrathaba Rising

Book One of the Kyrathaba Chronicles

by William Bryan Miller

Crocus Books

Wattpad Edition

Copyright 2013 William Bryan Miller

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my wonderful wife, Susan

(https://www.facebook.com/susan.brummettmiller)

(love you, honey!) Susan was patient with me throughout the process of this novel’s birth. It helped that my time at the desktop PC usually coincided with her television time, and that she was weighed down with our Boston Terrier, which habitually makes her nest on Susan’s lap, demanding her attention.

I’d also like to dedicate this book to my friends 4wd

(http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=48504)

and Perry Mowbray

(http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=6207)

, fellow members of the DonationCoder

(http://donationcoder.com)

website forum. Their help was absolutely invaluable in ridding the rough draft of typos and awkward phrasing. Thanks, guys!

- William Bryan Miller

Acknowledgments

The author wishes to gratefully acknowledge the proofreading help of the following individuals:

* Susan Miller

* Paul Miller

* 4wd

(http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=48504)

* Perry Mowbray

(http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=6207)

* 40hz

(http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=78337)

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“

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.”

Roger Zelazny

Prologue

“

My name is Sethra Slatten. I’m twenty-three. When

The Attack

happened I was a lad of sixteen. I’m one of the few survivors of that Tuesday’s viral, and then nuclear, holocaust that swept the globe on June 6th, 2276.