Lance Erlick's Blog, page 22
August 27, 2013
Blog Tour (1 day)
Tuesday August 27, my first blog tour at:
http://rantsnscribbles.blogspot.ca/
http://totaleclipsereviews.blogspot.com
Come visit at above locations. There is supposed to be a chance to win a Kindle Fire HD on those two locations. Let me know what you think.
Tagged: dystopia, sci fi, thriller, young adult
August 24, 2013
Gender
As we wrestle with gender issues, I thought it would be useful to explore how thinks might appear from a different perspective. Thus was born The Rebel Within and Rebels Divided.
Tagged: changing world, future, rebels, sci fi, young adult
August 6, 2013
Review Loves The Rebel Within
(by Amanda from TheEclecticBookworm)
I truly loved the main character. She is strong, intelligent. She has a heart. She knows that her society isn’t the utopia it is portrayed to be. She has an unquenched thirst for justice and determination to match.
See more at TheEclecticBookworm.wordpress.com
Tagged: dystopia, rebels, sci fi, young adult
Liberty vs. Security
(by Lance Erlick)
It seems throughout human history there has been a tug-of-war between liberty and security. At times people sacrificed their liberties in exchange for promises of security to live their day-to-day lives. In ways, this was the bargain individuals made when they became serfs to the land under some medieval lord, often after a natural or man-made catastrophe put fear into their lives. At other times, we have fought to the death for our liberties, as our forefathers did here in America and elsewhere. The pendulum swings back and forth at different times, and at different paces for different people. And yet a perfect balance is never found.
Then there are those who demand their own liberties while denying other people theirs, typically because the ‘others’ are different. This was the case of slavery in its many forms going all the way back to the earliest recordings of human history. We see it today in various groups demanding their rights and liberties while standing by or actively denying the rights of others. And yet, when our neighbor’s house burns, is it wise to stand by and wait to see if it boils over to our own?
Humans have yet to find a path that avoids the swing of liberty vs. security. Perhaps it will continue to elude us, for this struggle is rather like the struggle of life itself, a constant rebalancing between shortage and excess in order to survive.
I have tried to capture some of this tug-of-war in my Rebel series: The Rebel Within & Rebels Divided.
Tagged: changing world, dystopia
June 14, 2013
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