Robert H Cherny

Seeds of Anger (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A renegade botanist hunted by eco-terrorists takes a brilliant high school junior to be his protégé. The boy's police officer father has been killed in the line of duty, and his mother is dying of cancer. The property that the botanist has taken over had been in the boy's family for three generations before recently being split up for development.

On the hunt for new herbal medicines, the botanist moves in across the street from the boy and uses the large open property to cultivate the plants he needs for his research. The boy and his friends work as his assistants and learn to be scientists. The team of teenagers is carefully mentored and pushed to grow beyond what they would have expected of themselves.

However, when the botanist's indiscretions catch up with him, everything changes, and the boy must decide if he is to take charge and face the danger or walk away and leave the research data for others to finish.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Robert H Cherny
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230611097
• Artikelnr.: 73380804

Autorenporträt

Writing has always gotten me in trouble. Still does.

I have been a fan of science and speculative fiction since I found it in the young people's section of the library. In grade school, I devoured works by Heinlein, Norton, Asimov, and Huxley among others. By the time I had finished high school, I had read every science fiction book in the town's library.

When I was in high school I wrote short stories instead of paying attention in math class. This did not help my math grade and would have serious consequences a few years later.

In college, I could be counted on for the divergent opinion. This was after my failed math forced a complete redirection of my life plan. A disastrous Freshman year at Brandeis University, forced a reevaluation of reading materials. Switching majors to theater brought exposure to Shaw, Strindberg, Ibsen, Stoppard, Pinter, Shakespeare, and a host of young would-be playwrights. As a technical theater major, I found that the quantity of material to which I was exposed often surpassed the quality. Too busy to do any writing of his own, I devoted his time to supporting the efforts of others.

The Vietnam War brought a tour of duty in South Carolina and the opportunity to begin graduate work at the University of South Carolina. While in the Air Force, my anti-war sentiments did not become an issue, because I kept them secret. I did no writing except for my graduate school classes which I took while still in service. Even here, I was ever the contrarian, unwilling or unable to go where the others went. Fortunately, as a design major, my writing was of less concern than my draftsmanship. The war ended and with less than a month to go on my MA, and no job opportunities in sight, I left school lacking only my thesis and took a paying job at Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus World in Haines City Florida Master's degrees in the theater were not worth much in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

Fortunately, through a series of unlikely coincidences, I landed a job as technical director of the then brand new Tupperware Convention Center. At the time, it was the only full-time convention center in Central Florida. I would stay there for twenty years earning an MBA along the way although my work schedule left little time for either reading or writing except for articles in technical journals.

My sudden departure from Tupperware provided the time to return to reading and writing...