Mark Buchignani

-19 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Ultimately, the vaccine failed.

In the U.S., the population grew increasingly restive and sharply divided. Two factions spontaneously formed. One believed in strict physical prevention - distancing, layers of masking, quarantine, isolation. They relentlessly screened and tested, resulting in a disease-free population that once established could live well behind ramparts, entirely divorced from the outside world.

A second insisted individualism was paramount. They threw off their masks, crowded bars and stadiums, and handled illness as the human race always has: the sick rested and recovered - or didn't. People buried their dead. Life and civilization went on.

Absolute disclosure v. Absolute liberty. Faith in science v. Faith in God. Community v. Individuality.

Spontaneously formed. The government, under crushing pressure to solve the problem, twice relented, issuing two massive land grants: "Here, show us your solution." In the American Southwest a pair of nations were created: Honesty and Freedom, each offering assurance and optimism. People joined in droves. Against endless and unrelenting waves of the disease, the only remaining weapon was hope.

-19 presents two first-person accounts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mark Buchignani
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798223554295
• Artikelnr.: 68017888

Autorenporträt

An avid reader of literary fiction, fantasy, and science fiction, Mark Buchignani has more 'favorite' authors than he can count, among them George R. Stewart, John Wain, Martin Amis, John Steinbeck, Margaret Atwood, Nicholson Baker, Richard Flanagan... The tip of the iceberg. Novels of my own began spilling out in 2005, resulting in, among others, MTee's Lament, a twist on a post-apocalyptic tale. Many more narratives followed. Some are published here; others languish behind "fair use" entanglements.

My stuff tends toward societal commentary, presented via normal people who find themselves in unexpected, offbeat, or abnormal circumstances circumstances replete with threatened or actual upheaval. The choices these folks make move the action forward and expose brokenness in the culture and in the actors themselves.

I'm also a huge Tolkien fan and have written volume one of a loosely-planned five-book set: The Recitation of Ooon. Though in the same genre as Lord the Rings, Ooon is definitely not Middle Earth, and there are no Hobbits. Just people trying to find their way while engulfed in a magical upheaval driven by a clash between followers of the ancient ways and those seeking a new, less-fettered life. The narrator is a thousand-year-old man, trying to see forward, while looking back, as his existence comes to a pre-destined end.

And I have devoured everything Theodore Sturgeon and quite a bit of old school SF. Though I have yet to draft anything within this genre, ideas continually percolate.