Lee Willard

Chlidren of the Forest (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this story six people go thru the same events, each with their own take on the happenings. They each go thru much the same time line but each knows a little bit more about the events than the one before. Some might notice this is the same structure as 'Aluminum Quest' and other novels from the Gordon's Lamp series.

There are three major crimes and several lesser ones that all the characters have some degree of involvement in. There are also three 'love affairs,' though I'll give you fair warning, none are what one would call a formula romance since none of the participants is within a million dollars of what it takes to be in formula romance. Also, none of the females involved in these romances is so intoxicated by the pheromones that she loses her senses. In other words, this is romance in the real world.

There is just enough sex in here to earn the 'adult' label. It is more of a crime novel or mystery than erotica. As a detective story, the reader will eventually know everything that went down, but the investigators will not.

But more than romance, more than mystery, this is about the consequences of an economy that is constantly pushing people out of the 'lifeboat' that is civilization and what they just might have to do to survive. Most can do so peacefully but some have been trained only for war so peace is not a part of their way of life.

This was written between 2010 and 2012 but never published at the time because the area did recover and the teen homeless camps are now gone. It has been revised slightly, but is still told from a 2012 point of view, before the recovery and before the division in our society became so extreme and so all-pervasive. Were this re-written to take place today it would be a much different story, the crimes would be more politically motivated and less economically motivated. In today's climate many of the characters could not live where and how they do. I bet we never thought we'd look back on the days of the financial collapse with such nostalgia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lee Willard
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005872717
• Artikelnr.: 72788154

Autorenporträt

I am a retired embedded systems engineer and sci-fi hobbyist from Hartford. Most of my stories concern Kassidor, 'The planet the hippies came from' which I have used to examine subjects like: What would it take to make the hippy lifestyle real? How would extended lifespans affect society? What could happen if we outlive our memories? How can murder be committed when violence is impossible?

I have recently discovered that someone new to science fiction should start their exploration of Kassidor with the Second Expedition trilogy. To the mainstream fiction reader the alien names of people, places and things can be confusing. This series has a little more explanation of the differences between Kassidor and Earth. In all of the Kassidor stories you will notice the people do not act like ordinary humans but like flower children from the 60's. It is not until Zhlindu that the actual modifications made to human nature to make them act that way are spelled out. To aide that understanding I've made The Second Expedition free.

I am not a fan of violence and dystopia. I believe that sci-fi does not just predict the future, but helps create the future because we sci-fi writers show our readers what the future will be and the readers go out and create it. I believe that the current fad of constant dystopia and mega-violence in sci-fi today is helping to create that world, and I mention that often in reviews and comments on the books I read. I also believe that the characters in those stories who are completely free of any affection are at least as unnatural as the modified humans of Kassidor.

In my reviews, * = couldn't finish it. ** = Don't bother with it. *** = good story worth reading. **** = great and memorable story. ***** = Worth a Hugo.