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It has been said, “The imagination is one of the unique and important aspects of being human and fantasy is a product of the imagination.”

When I was a young teenage boy growing up on the windswept Saskatchewan prairie I had a great imagination. I had no siblings and few playmates so my constant companion was my wild imagination and of course my dog. As I grew up the realities of life reduced the time I had for fantasy but I never forgot what it was like to imagine. So when I decided that I wanted to write something for my teenage grandchildren that would take their minds away from iPads, iPods, iPhones, and things like Xbox and PlayStation that I feared were crowding out their ability to have imagination and fantasy, I discovered that my ab

It has been said, “The imagination is one of the unique and important aspects of being human and fantasy is a product of the imagination.”

When I was a young teenage boy growing up on the windswept Saskatchewan prairie I had a great imagination. I had no siblings and few playmates so my constant companion was my wild imagination and of course my dog. As I grew up the realities of life reduced the time I had for fantasy but I never forgot what it was like to imagine. So when I decided that I wanted to write something for my teenage grandchildren that would take their minds away from iPads, iPods, iPhones, and things like Xbox and PlayStation that I feared were crowding out their ability to have imagination and fantasy, I discovered that my ability to fantasize and imagine had not left me.

In my novel The Legend: Land of Gophers I invented the character Billy Joe, like me, an only child who, as he says, has a great imagination. Billy Joe when he turns 14 is given the family .22 rifle and like his father and grandfather is expected to hunt gophers that are overrunning the family pasture. But Billy Joe really does not like shooting gophers, and one day while out in the pasture with his dog George he decides not to shoot gophers any more as he has developed a sympathy and respect for them, and he starts to imagine them having a community much like his own.

As he lay there in the pasture he began to picture himself as a young teenage gopher like himself with lots of energy and zest for life. He would be Golan the teenage gopher, with a father and mother, and a sister, a girlfriend Phero, their teenage friends, the colony’s leader the Gofmayor and many others.

Because the colony is facing starvation the story is about the colony’s trek to find the mythical Land of Gophers, based on a long standing legend among gopher colonies that somewhere far to the west there is this place where gophers live in harmony and peace with always-abundant food. In this trek the gophers face hardship, storms and enemies — coyotes, hawks, foxes, cats and dogs. But other animals actually help them — beavers, ground owls, antelopes, porcupines and even a rat.

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