Inside of genre circles, “YA” seems to be taking hold as a catch-all term for anything written for anyone under 18. Since so many people use YA as a catch-all, it’s becoming a catch-all, so how children’s book industry people define the category doesn’t matter. Does it?
A great hero, Jeeling is the scientific genius who built Skyship, a huge flying city that has been cleaning the atmosphere for decades—saving millions of lives. He is unfairly targeted in an assassination plot, risking a massive ecological disaster.
Brian Burt writes short and novel-length speculative fiction. His short story “The Last Indian War” won the Writers of the Future Gold Award. His debut novel, “Aquarius Rising: In the Tears of God,” won EPIC’s 2014 eBook Award for Science Fiction.
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