The Outland by John Luxton - Scifi steampunk dystopian story being published on Wattpad

It is the dawn of the 23rd Century. Earth’s population are scattered across the Solar System, and beyond, driven from their Home Planet by environmental toxicity, and the all-powerful New World Order. Only a handful of Stayers remain on Earth; their decision fuelled by their distrust of all authority. Surviving by using antique technologies and ingenuity - they hang on. Waiting to one day hear from those who made the exodus.

When the word finally arrives it is from an unexpected quarter, Europa, the 6th Moon of Jupiter. And it is a truly incendiary secret that is revealed.

There has been a revolution, the workers of Europa have seized control, and news of this is now spreading like wildfire to other colonies. Centuries of lies are exposed and the colonists realize that they were tricked into leaving the earth, tricked into lives of servitude, and discover that their birthright has been stolen, leaving them enslaved to the off-planet mining cartels.

And now a call has gone out – for someone to lead the rebels to freedom, before the uprising is crushed under the jackboot of the New World Order.

Slowly taking shape on Wattpad. John Luxton