WHERE TIGERS ROAM FREELY
OKAY, yes, I’m an environmentalist. Have to be. Without us there’d be an oil wells everywhere, and no animals other than those bred and domesticated for food. So where do tigers and other wild animals still roam freely? In books. In our minds. In our genes.
Whenever I write, I try to include some little tidbit about animals or plants, as without plants we’d quickly have no breathable air or potable water, and without animals, we’d have no baseline to remind us that we, too, are first and foremost animals. With plants it’s about surviving. With animals, it’s about unbridled hubris. Both are equally dangerous.
In my Sci-Fu, socio-political, sometimes adventure, sometimes erotic sex thriller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, I don’t forget either:
“Naming the animals and plants after themselves…?
“The idea was to inspire feelings of environmental stewardship through government established and funded official Naming Ceremonies—N-Cares—whereby human caretakers and the animal or plant names of their now ‘cultivated natural’ darlings would be publicly announced, ceremoniously celebrated, then recorded digitally in ever-expanding governmental N-Cares information vaults called I-Cares.
“The honor caught on and the practical result was immediate: I-Cares, in essence governmental genetic diversity repositories, sprang up everywhere, and awardees gladly paid for public recognition, contractually committing themselves to husbanding the animals or plants which they had name-recognized for the duration of the human’s life. As a further honorific, caretakers were permitted to wear a light blue colored armband. At the same time, the government inserted a tiny, inert, bioluminescent DNA tag into the now protected entity, identifying it as under the care and protection of the government by way of that particular human caretaker.
“This program singularly changed the surface of NewAmerica into one citizen-tended, cultivated-natural paradise.
“To this, Brie’s now lolling mind added, and many were becoming so enamored with the program, it began taking on the attributes of a ‘culturally natural’ religion. This was, of course, much to the chagrin of youth who, like Brie’s mob, often joked about it as being a personal challenge to ‘Keep ON the Grass’…”
“Inside his head, Brie could sense the abstract litany of instruction in the voices of his holo-instructors replaying: “NewAmericans’ physical condition, nutrition and general health have become nearly ideal, leaving biodiversity to whims of individual desire, epigenes and occasional serendipitously acquired thought-treasures—threasures. ‘Poor’ no longer related solely to money, but became based on one’s unique combination of TARS-AID, sally, contro, education, threasures, curiosity, social effectiveness in work and overall consciousness.
“Brie smiled. He preferred to think in terms of each person’s “Designer Jeans”—DigJees he referred to them one day to Simi’s delight and profit—the acronym under her expert hand immediately spreading like wildfire throughout their community and NewAmerica.”
Where tigers roam freely, humans enjoy adventure, romance and live to the fullest. It’s only natural.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
Soon to be an audiobook read by the incomparable Peter Pollock; purchased for manga, animation and cinematic treatments by K. Simmons Productions.
Whenever I write, I try to include some little tidbit about animals or plants, as without plants we’d quickly have no breathable air or potable water, and without animals, we’d have no baseline to remind us that we, too, are first and foremost animals. With plants it’s about surviving. With animals, it’s about unbridled hubris. Both are equally dangerous.
In my Sci-Fu, socio-political, sometimes adventure, sometimes erotic sex thriller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, I don’t forget either:
“Naming the animals and plants after themselves…?
“The idea was to inspire feelings of environmental stewardship through government established and funded official Naming Ceremonies—N-Cares—whereby human caretakers and the animal or plant names of their now ‘cultivated natural’ darlings would be publicly announced, ceremoniously celebrated, then recorded digitally in ever-expanding governmental N-Cares information vaults called I-Cares.
“The honor caught on and the practical result was immediate: I-Cares, in essence governmental genetic diversity repositories, sprang up everywhere, and awardees gladly paid for public recognition, contractually committing themselves to husbanding the animals or plants which they had name-recognized for the duration of the human’s life. As a further honorific, caretakers were permitted to wear a light blue colored armband. At the same time, the government inserted a tiny, inert, bioluminescent DNA tag into the now protected entity, identifying it as under the care and protection of the government by way of that particular human caretaker.
“This program singularly changed the surface of NewAmerica into one citizen-tended, cultivated-natural paradise.
“To this, Brie’s now lolling mind added, and many were becoming so enamored with the program, it began taking on the attributes of a ‘culturally natural’ religion. This was, of course, much to the chagrin of youth who, like Brie’s mob, often joked about it as being a personal challenge to ‘Keep ON the Grass’…”
“Inside his head, Brie could sense the abstract litany of instruction in the voices of his holo-instructors replaying: “NewAmericans’ physical condition, nutrition and general health have become nearly ideal, leaving biodiversity to whims of individual desire, epigenes and occasional serendipitously acquired thought-treasures—threasures. ‘Poor’ no longer related solely to money, but became based on one’s unique combination of TARS-AID, sally, contro, education, threasures, curiosity, social effectiveness in work and overall consciousness.
“Brie smiled. He preferred to think in terms of each person’s “Designer Jeans”—DigJees he referred to them one day to Simi’s delight and profit—the acronym under her expert hand immediately spreading like wildfire throughout their community and NewAmerica.”
Where tigers roam freely, humans enjoy adventure, romance and live to the fullest. It’s only natural.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
Soon to be an audiobook read by the incomparable Peter Pollock; purchased for manga, animation and cinematic treatments by K. Simmons Productions.
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