Skyboy: A Sci-Fi Action Adventure Novel

by Adam Aresty

Overview

In Skyboy, a young genius must confront his greatest weakness to survive.

Konstant is a brilliant 17-year-old immigrant whose pride and desire to rise to the top has exposed his blind spot - a failure to collaborate with others. When he wins a nationwide science fair sponsored by Metronome Logistics, the world’s most successful technology company, Konstant and five of his peers are invited to Metro-One, Metronome’s campus in New York City. 

An industrial accident strands them, along with the enigmatic CEO and his daughter, in an underground manufacturing facility. Forced to work together and use their prize-winning inventions to make it out alive, Konstant's greatest fear is realized when he discovers that someone among them is responsible for the attack.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781636985114
Publisher:	Morgan James Publishing
Publication date:	05/06/2025
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	15 - 18 Years

About the Author

Adam Aresty has written the novellas The Communication Room and Recovery, the horror film, Stung, the TV series, ALT, and the video game, Enshrouded, among other works of genre fiction. Skyboy is his first novel. He teaches screenwriting at Fordham Universityand lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Editorial Reviews

2025-02-15
A brilliant young inventor gets more than just technical support from a set of fellow geniuses when an army of killer robots threatens their near-future world.

Konstant’s submission of a flying motorcycle prototype to a national science contest launches a breathless storm of massive disasters and scary escapes involving rival megacorporations, construction robots gone rogue, and a veritable cascade of futuristic gadgetry, including an experimental matter replicator with a subtle but ominous flaw. Readers fond of geeky tech talk and driving action that’s high in body count but low on explicit violence will be well pleased. Still, the story’s strongest elements are its personal ones. Konstant makes steady progress from being an angry, isolated loner to being willing to work with others and accept friendship and help; he’s a struggling immigrant from the fictional nation of Duprevnia whose scientist mother was killed by a mutated norovirus. In his debut novel, Aresty offers chilling visions of what the next pandemic might do to the New York metro area’s economy and infrastructure. Assistance from Rose, the high-wattage daughter of a billionaire technocrat, and from the ethnically diverse supporting cast surrounding the white-presenting teen lead characters helps Konstant take his journey in a more hopeful direction that leaves him with new friends, new ambitions, and future prospects (not least with Rose) that look bright.

A fizzy mix of cool tech and hot action.(Science fiction. 12-17)

Kirkus Reviews