THE GYRE

So once I wrote the novel - I thought Phew! all done - great. But then about two weeks later I thought - but what happens when the generation of kids who were born on Triton grow up. What happens then? What would they be like? What would they make of us? And that set me off on a whole other story which turned out to be The Gyre. We began with a group of road protesters tried to stop the bypass being built. They failed and trees got cut down. They regrouped and decided to just leave. They built a floating city that could be out on the ocean and never have to come back to the land. 25 years later, the generation who were born and raised on the floating city decided to make contact with the world their parents left behind.