The Forgotten Nomad

By Andreas Ingo

In a world of opposing heroes, where rebellion turned into slavery, and the fight for survival left no clear options. There was a man of legend. A man in search for a better life: A freedom fighter on Europa. Who left the rebels in search for his own identity. Who journeyed into the unknown, to find his alter ego.

The Forgotten Nomad is a novella by Andreas Ingo. It's an epic story about the fight for freedom, on Jupiter's moon Europa, a misdirected fight leading nowhere.

The hero has to overcome his illusions and meet the world on his own terms.

He has to find the spirit and embark on an epic adventure, where right and wrong exchange roles.

Leaving him completely alone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andreas Ingo
• Release date: Nov 19, 2013
• ISBN: 9781311139665

Andreas Ingo

I’m a Swedish guy, passing 35, writing fiction, articles, composing music and more. I travel the world seeking adventures, meeting people on the way. I look at Internet as a kind of hub for greater knowledge: A beast that must be tamed. I meditate, search for the spark within, and use others as a source of inspiration. I hope to give something back in the process.

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THE FORGOTTEN NOMAD

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Andreas Ingo

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AT THE BORDER OF THE SUNSET

Fabian undid the zipper, stuck the nervous fingers in his backpack and took up the explosive. This was a lump of explosive material, very sticky, that he broke gently. The plastic explosive was gray, a landscape of minimal ridges, shaded by the decline of the solar disk. Soon the sun would be hidden behind Jupiter, the mother planet, and was coming down. In about thirty-eight hours, the sun would be gone. People would lie down to sleep, only to go up again, though darkness still prevailed.

Fabian felt trembles in the knees; he loosened pieces of the plastic, careful not to make sudden movements. He mounted the viscous material on one of the rotating gears. These were three feet in diameter. He was on a large platform. This platform would transport people, animals and rare vehicles, to various units along the mountainside.

Fabian looked out over the glistening bay. He saw the terraced buildings, along a beach of domed rocks. A cape was looking out into the sea, and had a huge pillar. The pillar carried the terraces of the extraterrestrial colony, which stretched out over the sea.

Europa was Jupiter’s fourth largest moon, white of ice but also colored by rust-red rocks. It wasn’t a hot moon, but the colonists used heat energy from the moon’s interior. Using gigantic pumps and whirring fans, ten meters in diameter, heat were spreading in the atmosphere.

Now dusk had arrived and it would soon be night. Fabian used the darkness to his advantage. He was part of a group of peculiar nomads: Individuals who fought for freedom in a colonized future beyond the bounds of reason. There were colonies on the Moon, Mars and Europa. There were rumors of people on Planet X, a newly discovered celestial body beyond Pluto. It was a future in which technology had progressed very far, but people had seen the backside of it: The dependence on computer technology, the escape from reality, which expanded the distance between the mind and the body. The technology had been abandoned to a large extent, the computers had