Writer Musings: After Eden Series’ Tek-Fall

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Writer Musings: After Eden Series’ Tek-Fall

One month before I launched our current After Eden Series crowdfunding campaign, I decided I wanted to offer another reward to supporters. So I decided to write another book. Two weeks later, I finished the novella Metal Flesh, the first of a two-part series.

For those who have read the any of the After Eden novels, it follows the people and events that lead to the explosion of World War III in 2125. In addition to key characters, religion, politics and technology also take center stage in the series. It is a dystopian series, but a very believable one—and some have even called it prophetic.

I think most good series have the potential for many side-stories, not essential to the main story, but offer readers a chance to spend more time with favorite secondary characters or further explore character backgrounds that wasn’t done in the main books.

The two-part Tek-Fall series explores the creative “god complex” of man manifested in the series by the government’s quest to adequately prepare their nations for any future war. America follows two tracks with its clandestine “New People” Project: robotic warfare and genetic warfare. Episode I: Metal Flesh introduces the creation of “thinking” robots with quantum artificial intelligent “brains.” The upcoming Episode II: Hell’s Menagerie touches upon the creation of MMLs—man-made life forms, or as one scientist termed, “the freak show.”

The themes of both novellas give us a lot to think about, and the concepts have been explored by many writers and movies before. Is mechanical “sentience” possible? How far should we go with cyborg-technology? If we could “make” a dinosaur, bring back the woolly mammoth, or create a clone of Adolf Hitler, should we? Should we create creatures, just to see how amazing we are? Should there be laws against this—including governments? Should one life form have the cosmic right NOT to be altered by another life form?

Then we get to World War III and see the horrific results of such mechanical, organic and hybrid creations. But never as deadly as one creation—human beings.

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