Topside

By J.N. Monk and Harry Bogosian

A wild outer-space fantasy about fixing your mistakes and the friends you meet along the way.
When Jo, a headstrong maintenance technician, makes an error that destabilizes her planet's core, she only knows one way to fix things: leaving her underground home for a trip to the planet's dangerous, unruly surface. Soon she's wandering through deserts, riding on the backs of giant beasts, and cutting deals with con artists and bounty hunters. Meanwhile, agents of the core are in hot pursuit. J. N. Monk and Harry Bogosian (co-creators of the web-comic StarHammer) present a wild outer-space fantasy about fixing your mistakes and the friends you meet along the way.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lerner Publishing
• Release date: Oct 1, 2019
• ISBN: 9781541565012

J.N. Monk

J. N. Monk is a Midwesterner with a song in their heart. They've lived in a lighthouse, an active volcano, and Florida but always return to the heartland. They love travel, superheroes, food, and cats and wish that everyone knew the lyrics and steps to the musical number in their soul. They live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Reviews for Topside

[livingtech_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was neat, but I think I would have liked a better sense of the interesting environments the characters moved through, as well as more at the end. It just felt a bit abrupt, and not very explicit about what was happening.

Still, it was an enjoyable future.