CCMARASCO
BookS
The Blood of the Precursor
A 26-year-old blood biochemist, Scarlet, must reconcile her scientific training with the beliefs of the ancient cult of her family line.
The Blood of the Precursor is a 109k-word novel at the intersection of horror, fantasy, and science fiction that brings together the weird science of the X-Files with the psychological realism of Leigh Bardugo’s Ninth House.
in another dream
Broken by a friend’s death and her own sense of inadequacy, 28‑year‑old coder Tiger is pulled into a subtly altered version of her life, forcing her to confront who she is—and who she wants to be—before she loses her way home for good.
In Another Dream is a 115k-word, upmarket science fiction novel with, combining the emotional intimacy of Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow with the reality-bending suspense of Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter.
About CC Marasco
CC Marasco (aka Christina C. Marasco, aka Chrissy to friends) grew up outside Pittsburgh, PA, in a small town once dubbed the most radioactive place in America. Surrounded by decaying particles, she waited for the moment she would become superhuman a la Peter Parker (not really). It never came (shockingly). Instead, she infused her powers of spatial, analytical, and visionary thinking with the desolation of her hometown and concluded: the world can only get better (ahh, the error of youth). Her rampant idealism (laced thoroughly with cynicism) led to a career in science and engineering through which she still strives to improve the world through impactful technologies.Writing allows her to inspire the minds of today and tomorrow by creating visions of what the world could or should (or definitely should not) be. She infuses her worlds with complex, misfit, outlier characters, futuristic (yet still plausible) technologies, and magic that may as well be science (or vice versa) that create stories meant to push the reader to think differently (while being entertained).Open your mind to the impossible so that you might expand the possible.