World of Destiny

World of Destiny
Click on image to purchase kindle version for $0.99,,,World of Destiny is about Trevor Sansing and his daughter, Sarah, who have survived the demise of most of Earth’s population. When they venture from their East Texas home, they are rescued/abducted by aliens and brought to a new world. They learn en-route that Connie Sansing, who was visiting neighbors when all this happened, was also picked up and brought to the same world. But they have no clue where she was taken on this strange planet. They have to find her. They learn that this new world is already sparsely populated by abductees that have been brought here over the last eighty years. Connie could be anywhere, and they have to find her. But they will need a guide. Without much choice, they are thrown in with a group of kids who were all born on this world. They reluctantly agree to let the Sansings tag along. The adventure begins and the search is on.

World of Destiny

World of Destiny
Click on Image to purchase for $0.99,.. Reeling from the shock of unpleasant revelations and the dissolution of life as he knew it, Trevor and friends indulge in a quest of discovery on a newly discovered world. With their new friend, Mary, the whole Galaxy is theirs to explore. However, unfortunate events keep pulling them back to Earth and placing them in the forefront of uncontrollable turmoil in spite of their best efforts to just escape from it all.

World of Destiny

World of Destiny
Trevor Sansing and his crew, of mostly young adults aboard the living ship they call Mary, have returned to the world they’ve named “Destiny”. Humanity is on the brink of extinction with only the Israeli population and small pockets elsewhere that have managed to survive the onslaught of the Asunimi on Earth. On Destiny, man’s survival has always been tenuous at best. Unexpected events on Earth had unnerved them all. Now, Trevor and his friends, only want a little R&R and are looking forward to some down time. For Trevor’s friends, Destiny is home. More and more, Trevor realizes that for him and his daughter, Sarah, Destiny has become “home” as well. However, as soon as they arrive, Mary receives a telepathic message from one of her companion ships. The message is simple, but Trevor is sure it can’t be right. It states simply, “WE HAVE FOUND GOD”.

World of Destiny Part 4: Repercussions

World of Destiny Part 4: Repercussions
Sometimes, things come back to bite you on your backside. Trevor Sansing had a run-in with these red-eyed aliens once before. He thought he had seen the last of them. He was wrong. They have discovered a way to pass through the portals without suffering the psychological damage that happens to all non-telepathic beings who dare to enter there. They are obviously aware of Destiny’s location. And they are staging troops and material for an attack. Trevor knows they cannot be reasoned with. The question is what is there that the people of Destiny can do about it. Destiny is ill-prepared to fend off an invasion. Abandon Destiny and run for Earth? Earth isn’t much better off than Destiny. Someone needs to come up with a plan to meet this latest threat that has the potential of wiping out the small remnant of humanity barely surviving on Destiny. And Trevor fears they won’t stop there. Earth will be their next target.

Monday, January 10, 2022

 

                                                    Star Trek: Discovery



   I just got finished binge watching Season 4 of Star Trek: Discovery. Even the music at the beginning and ending of the show stirs my soul and puts my imagination in hyperdrive. I’ve always loved Sci-Fi. As a boy, my mom got me reading science fiction as a way to keep my overactive brain engaged on boring, rainy days when we couldn’t go outside to play (yeah, in my generation we did that. There was basically nothing to do in the house.) I was a strange kid by anyone’s standards. I read the whole set of Encyclopedia’s Mom bought from a door-to-door salesman. I started with A and didn’t stop until I got to Z. Then I went to town on works by all the Classic writers that came with the set. Then, I read the whole Catholic Bible from cover to cover when I was 12.

  But science fiction grabbed my fancy back then and never let it go. They say that travel broadens your horizons. That’s a pretty fair statement, and I’ve done my share of that. But nothing broadens and opens your mind like science fiction. It opened my mind to endless possibilities at a very young age. And to this day, I never grow tired of reading science fiction and playing my “what if” game in my head. As most of you know, I’ve written four of my own science fiction books. People who’ve read them are always asking me how I come up with some of the ideas I expressed in them. I’m not always sure. Some of those ideas just seem to pop into my head as I’m putting words down on paper. I don’t know where those come from. Others emerge from conversations I’ve had with friends online or just from random things I’ve read over the years. I also, often have some pretty wild science fiction dreams.

  Star Trek: Discovery is the latest spin-off from the original Star Trek show on TV. I’m watching it on Amazon Prime. The first three seasons are all there. And now the fourth season is also on there up to episode seven so far. For the record, there is almost no comparison between it and the original. Don’t get me wrong. I loved the original. It was so mind-blowing in its day. But when I go back and watch those old reruns, it looks so cheesy now. Discovery supposedly takes place more than a thousand years in the future of Captain Jean Luc Picard’s day. And the tech on the ship is almost like magic compared to the old Enterprise. And like Spock would say, the interactions between the crew members are “fascinating”. It seems that no matter how far into the future we imagine our heroes to be, they are still caricatures of us. Captain Kirk and his crew, in the 25th century, were pushing the boundaries of sexuality and society’s mores just like the hippies of the 1960s were – miniskirts and all. Also, audiences were totally shocked when white Captain Kirk kissed black Uhura in one episode. And when you watch the original Star Trek, you notice that although the crew is a mixture of ethnicities (with a very small handful of aliens thrown in for good measure), the main characters are white. Whereas, in Star Trek: Discovery, most of the characters are either aliens or black with only a few white people tossed in. I guess today’s political correctness carries over for thousands of years into the future, right? You’ll also notice a few gays, lesbians, and some “I’m not sures” on board this ship. And I don’t think they got around to swearing in the 25th century (and it was definitely not allowed on 1960 TV shows) but the Discovery is under no such restrictions. An “F” bomb or two and then some are sprinkled in loosely, but they make it sound like what kids do when there are no grownups around. That has been a common practice in a lot of science fiction right from the beginning. And I’m pretty sure that librarians never read a lot of those sci-fi books they had stocked proudly on their shelves back in the sixties.

  I’ve discussed before, on my blog, what I thought the intriguing dynamic was in the original Star Trek series. It was the interplay between emotional Dr. McCoy, rational, logic-only, Mr. Spock, and blended/balanced Captain Kirk.

  In Discovery, however, the main emphasis seems to be on love for one another, no matter how different or diverse the cultures interacting are from one another.

  Now remember, I said that science fiction was very mind opening. For me, it always was. It really allows you to step outside your own culture and see things from a sometimes very alien perspective. And then when you look at our very real cultural differences, they don’t seem to be all that important anymore. Human beings are human beings after all. And we’re all in the same boat.

   But here I have to confess to some cultural bias of my own that made it difficult to watch Star Trek: Discovery at first. The whole gay and lesbian thing was hard for me to watch. My own religious cultural upbringing tells me to not judge the person but never to condone the behavior either. And I do my best not to, in my head. At the same time, I find it very difficult to watch two men hugging and kissing. Now on Captain Janeway’s starship, there were two aliens that were both male who were a married couple, and one of them gave birth to their child. But it never showed them actually kissing one another. I try to be open minded about it. But it’s not easy at all. And no, I don’t like to see two women kissing either. So, in theory, I like the overall theme of this new sci-fi series. I just hope the show doesn’t go too far in pushing at those boundaries. My mind is already open more than most from a lifetime of immersing my psyche into the weird and wonderful world of science fiction. And no matter how old I get, I’m still like a child lost in wonder when I have one of those amazing sci-fi books in my hands. By the way, if you would like an old-fashioned sci-fi adventure story, check out my four books above, and let me know what you think. Any mind opening going on when you read my stories?