06-29-2026, 07:06 AM
The Velocity of Revolution by Marshall Ryan Maresca
Maresca takes a break from his Maradane series of novels to write this odd dystopian hispanic flavored novel. The story has a lot to do with motorcycles and magic mushrooms. Most of the people who love his Maradane sequence hate this novel because of all the drug use and polyamory sex scenes.
But it was different, in a good way. Wenthi is a motorcycle cop in the city of Ziaparr charged with tracking down the people fomenting revolution. The city is in the hands of the conquerors and heavily divided by a strong caste system. Naturally, the invaders are at the top of the caste and the natives are at the bottom of the caste. Wenthi must infiltrate the gang in order to find out who the leader of the uprising is. Part of the problem is the biker gangs use magic mushrooms to bond with each other and their leader. The faster the bikes go, the deeper the bond.
Naturally, exposure to the inside of the revolutions shows Wenthi things about society he would rather not know about. You can sketch out the rest from there. But it is different. Maresca does like world building.
Maresca takes a break from his Maradane series of novels to write this odd dystopian hispanic flavored novel. The story has a lot to do with motorcycles and magic mushrooms. Most of the people who love his Maradane sequence hate this novel because of all the drug use and polyamory sex scenes.
But it was different, in a good way. Wenthi is a motorcycle cop in the city of Ziaparr charged with tracking down the people fomenting revolution. The city is in the hands of the conquerors and heavily divided by a strong caste system. Naturally, the invaders are at the top of the caste and the natives are at the bottom of the caste. Wenthi must infiltrate the gang in order to find out who the leader of the uprising is. Part of the problem is the biker gangs use magic mushrooms to bond with each other and their leader. The faster the bikes go, the deeper the bond.
Naturally, exposure to the inside of the revolutions shows Wenthi things about society he would rather not know about. You can sketch out the rest from there. But it is different. Maresca does like world building.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm