I’M LATE, I’M LATE, FOR A VERY IMPORTANT…
RECOGNIZE the refrain from Disney’s version of Lewis Carroll’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND? Actually, in the novel, the White Rabbit said, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” which, I believe, should be the cry of contemporary America and the world.
My newly released Science Future novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, is actually the sequel to the decidedly naughty gay novel, TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese, in which the USA is too late to be saved from downsizing to NewAmerica with it’s new Chicago capital. Interestingly, this first work was written in 2008, when the USA was experiencing a new style of business that eventually led to the rise of Donald Trump and global dis-integration. In TOTAL MELTDOWN, two astute gay political aids travel around the world like two Benjamin Franklins before America’s War of Independence, preparing America and the world for what is come: A downsizing not unlike the dissolution of the former USSR.
Today, I believe, we face a somewhat different world architecture no less daunting than the combined moral, ethical and financial breakdown that occurs in TOTAL MELTDOWN: a world architecture being determined by the Great COVID Pandemic and the dis-integration of public health. The fourth horseman of the apocalypse, plague, follows sword, famine and wild beasts. If COVID was the wakeup shot across our bow; COVID in India today is a bleak demonstration of what can happen if humanity doesn’t “get” and strictly address the public health needs of an increasingly crowded world. Or business abandons “crowd sales” for “individual service.”
Either way, THE EDGE OF MADNESS presents a plausible result, where, based on scientific, social and technological change already underway, a new world and new “normal” results. As one reviewer stated, “Radically original while chilling and shocking. A dark vision of the future reminiscent of BRAVE NEW WORLD but on steroids. The title page should be plastered with a warning: ‘Not for the sentimental or faint of heart. This is not a game. Enter…at your own peril and keep a defibrillator handy. Medical power of attorney should be assigned to someone you know very, very well’.”
Whether future politics, society, romance, love, family or sex is your interest, THE EDGE OF MADNESS addresses each in a believably feasible, and to some, wholly prophetic way. Don’t just sit there, stride daringly up to the edge of madness and look boldly where no one has yet gone. The operative word here is “yet.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
$7.95 Kindle e-book version now $1.99 through May 2021
Soon to be an Audible audiobook read by the incomparable Peter Pollock. Purchased for manga, animation and cinematic treatment by K. Simmons Productions.
My newly released Science Future novel, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, is actually the sequel to the decidedly naughty gay novel, TOTAL MELTDOWN (Borgo/Wildside 2009) by Raymond Gaynor and William Maltese, in which the USA is too late to be saved from downsizing to NewAmerica with it’s new Chicago capital. Interestingly, this first work was written in 2008, when the USA was experiencing a new style of business that eventually led to the rise of Donald Trump and global dis-integration. In TOTAL MELTDOWN, two astute gay political aids travel around the world like two Benjamin Franklins before America’s War of Independence, preparing America and the world for what is come: A downsizing not unlike the dissolution of the former USSR.
Today, I believe, we face a somewhat different world architecture no less daunting than the combined moral, ethical and financial breakdown that occurs in TOTAL MELTDOWN: a world architecture being determined by the Great COVID Pandemic and the dis-integration of public health. The fourth horseman of the apocalypse, plague, follows sword, famine and wild beasts. If COVID was the wakeup shot across our bow; COVID in India today is a bleak demonstration of what can happen if humanity doesn’t “get” and strictly address the public health needs of an increasingly crowded world. Or business abandons “crowd sales” for “individual service.”
Either way, THE EDGE OF MADNESS presents a plausible result, where, based on scientific, social and technological change already underway, a new world and new “normal” results. As one reviewer stated, “Radically original while chilling and shocking. A dark vision of the future reminiscent of BRAVE NEW WORLD but on steroids. The title page should be plastered with a warning: ‘Not for the sentimental or faint of heart. This is not a game. Enter…at your own peril and keep a defibrillator handy. Medical power of attorney should be assigned to someone you know very, very well’.”
Whether future politics, society, romance, love, family or sex is your interest, THE EDGE OF MADNESS addresses each in a believably feasible, and to some, wholly prophetic way. Don’t just sit there, stride daringly up to the edge of madness and look boldly where no one has yet gone. The operative word here is “yet.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je6CC...
$7.95 Kindle e-book version now $1.99 through May 2021
Soon to be an Audible audiobook read by the incomparable Peter Pollock. Purchased for manga, animation and cinematic treatment by K. Simmons Productions.
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