THE GREAT THAW

I don’t know about you, but I feel a thaw in the offing. During the last four years, as business constraints were thrown aside, instead of heat, I felt a coldness, a sort of inhumane coldness begin to permeate everything from business to book to society to government. I was an unpleasant “stuck” feeling that I for one had begun to “adjust” to as if this were the new “normal.” Now I’m feeling, for the first time in years, The Thawing. And it feels so good. I much prefer a humane world where we are challenged to act like stewards of the earth rather than raiders of the most lucre. I sensed a change in business way back in 2009 when, with my friend and author colleague, William Maltese, together wrote the racy LGBTQ novel TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009). It had to do with a tangible national change in emphasis from human service to product sales. In my case, I “felt” the total meltdown of things scientific and/or humanitarian to an avid, national pursuit of money and power. I liken the latter to destructive “games” created by humans to a seething mob hysteria avoid dealing with personal shortcomings and our species inevitable mortality. The thing is, money and power still can’t “save” a person from his or her mortal death. The only immortality humans really have is history or herstory in the form of a literary work.

Total Meltdown: A Tripler and Clarke Adventure

Be it simple happiness at being alive, attraction, romance, love, sex or that feeling of being part of something greater than oneself, literature still offers us an escape from mortal death, whether author or reader. And that’s what THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor is. My contribution to humanity. A vision of a future that humans can like, accept and grow into, or dislike, reject and remake. And it’s mystory as well. Oh, yes. The challenges that the three protagonists — two male, one female — face are challenges I’ve had to face and overcome as best I can in my own life. That’s, I hope, what makes the futuristic storyline “feel” so surprisingly contemporary and “real.” And I do have the privilege of having created and offering a new genre — that of SciFu or Sci-Fu, essentially science-based future studies — that will contribute directly to the future of my species, the world, my universe and the multiverse.

The Edge of Madness

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