WHERE HAVE ALL THE DRAGONS GONE?
AS you know, I’m a San Fran man; however, over the years I’ve become enamored with a second literary home: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Both Southern Temperate Mediterranean in climate; both Asian-American in flavor, though Hawaii has that unique Polynesian element as well. Both are ideal for a reclusive author, providing just the right mix of the international with local that favors, at least for me, comfortable, quiet time necessary for writing.
One item of interest in both SF and Honolulu, is the strong Asian cultural belief in dragons. I’m not talking here of the dragons of Pern, Avatar or Dragonheart. I’m talking here of “real” dragons, shrouded in the mists of time, that are able to find their way to our time and create good luck or misfortune. Both SF and Honolulu have yearly Dragonfests (though they’re typically referred to simply as Chinese New Year celebrations) designed to scare these all-too-real dragons away. All except those bringing good luck or fortune, of course. All involve Chinese firecrackers, snapping loudly in the tens of hundreds into the night. And I must say, they are most effective. I haven’t seen a malicious dragon in either city in all my years.
From where do these sometimes mythical, sometimes “real” creatures originate? I’ve no idea. Is there a small place on the human genome that encodes memories of ancient terrors, like dinosaurs, for example? Or do they exist in a nether universe but Angstroms distance from our physical reality. Close enough to occasionally feel dragon-breath, leaving, at the least, a rush of gooseflesh on the arms of a victim in our world? The point here is that the distance between fantasy and reality can be or infinitesimal or infinite, imperceptible or…perceivable.
The Amazon Genre Bestseller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, is all about the probable. The future world is neither pure fantasy, nor pure science. It’s more troubling than either, being an extension of technology and sociology, a mirror into a probable future, a future study. A reader need neither like nor dislike the probable future, but comes away with a “peek” at it’s effects on its inhabitants, giving one choice. Do you want a world governed by heightened technology-business and social-hedonistic values? If so, this is a choice you, the reader, can make in today’s world to bring it into existence. No? Then this is the moment for you, the reader, to choose to act differently. Outside the box. To side with dragons, while making the world different than otherwise fated.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
Available in printed, digital and audio formats; purchased for manga, animation and cinematic treatment by K. Simmons Productions.
One item of interest in both SF and Honolulu, is the strong Asian cultural belief in dragons. I’m not talking here of the dragons of Pern, Avatar or Dragonheart. I’m talking here of “real” dragons, shrouded in the mists of time, that are able to find their way to our time and create good luck or misfortune. Both SF and Honolulu have yearly Dragonfests (though they’re typically referred to simply as Chinese New Year celebrations) designed to scare these all-too-real dragons away. All except those bringing good luck or fortune, of course. All involve Chinese firecrackers, snapping loudly in the tens of hundreds into the night. And I must say, they are most effective. I haven’t seen a malicious dragon in either city in all my years.
From where do these sometimes mythical, sometimes “real” creatures originate? I’ve no idea. Is there a small place on the human genome that encodes memories of ancient terrors, like dinosaurs, for example? Or do they exist in a nether universe but Angstroms distance from our physical reality. Close enough to occasionally feel dragon-breath, leaving, at the least, a rush of gooseflesh on the arms of a victim in our world? The point here is that the distance between fantasy and reality can be or infinitesimal or infinite, imperceptible or…perceivable.
The Amazon Genre Bestseller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor, is all about the probable. The future world is neither pure fantasy, nor pure science. It’s more troubling than either, being an extension of technology and sociology, a mirror into a probable future, a future study. A reader need neither like nor dislike the probable future, but comes away with a “peek” at it’s effects on its inhabitants, giving one choice. Do you want a world governed by heightened technology-business and social-hedonistic values? If so, this is a choice you, the reader, can make in today’s world to bring it into existence. No? Then this is the moment for you, the reader, to choose to act differently. Outside the box. To side with dragons, while making the world different than otherwise fated.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
Available in printed, digital and audio formats; purchased for manga, animation and cinematic treatment by K. Simmons Productions.
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