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AFTERWORLD (Sci-Fi-Fantasy [Satire] Series)
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Thought-provoking satire, sci-fi, and fantasy.,
What a fantastic concept! It’s like taking Dante’s “Inferno”, and racheting it up a notch in fantasy and satire. The first surprise is that the main character, Gary, dies in the first couple of pages. THEN his adventure starts! He phases into his afterlife, his “afterworld”, the place which we see, in this ceative vision, is the logical final adventure for all types of beings from all description and all creations from the dawn of time in anticipation of it’s physical end. Here, in afterworld, life NEVER ends, but lays out an endless review of all the made life forms that ever were, fromall the universes God ever made. The afterlife-universe is infinitely better than the one we know here in “prior life,” and infinitely more diverse, with font, worlds, cities, and creatures, from all the creations God has ever made – plus much more. We get to witness some of the lives and pasts of the many font, and they are fascinating, as well as their physical appearances – everyone able to “arrive” at whatever age they chose just by thinking about it, and everywhere they can have ANY relationship with ANY other being they choose. The infinite freedoms this novel speaks of are truly staggering, and the satire it has of the stodgy, overly-religeous types is certainly meant to be read in our times! Gary wanders through this infinitely diverse afterlife universe, trying to find meaning in his own small life (he was 32 when he arrived), and also find a relationship with someone that means something, which ultimately he does, with a most unlikely gorgeous creature, who unfortunately must die again! How it all works out, and how he finds the meaning to the confusion of existence, how he fits into God’s Divine Plot, with humor, and wonder, and always poking fun at our customs and mores, is what makes this novel so delightful.
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|Excellent satire, fantastic fantasy.,
This book is written in the tradition of some of the fantastic “Star Treks,” episodes and movies, for instance, which took some honest shots at our customs, mores, and religious beliefs, and yet gave us some fantastic science fiction and fantasy in the process. This tale does the same thing, tracing the eternal life of a person who starts his afterlife at the beginning of the book. He is confused and distrustful of this new life, and approaches it gingerly trying to unravel its unremitting mysteries, as well as its infinitely diverse collection of font from all over the universe and from all periods of time. Many of the font are comic, some humorous and expressive of our own many superstitions and oddball beliefs, and we are able to catch a few laughs at their expense, as we are meant to. But through all this odyssey, here is a solid and captivating tale, which is the personal life and struggle of the main character, Gary, as he wanders through this infinite and immense new existance, which is to the top with many scientific inventions which the author carefully constructs to make this new world work, if by entirely uncommon principles. They are fascinating and peak our interest as to how everything really “WORKS” – that is, how GOD works – and we find ourselves asking “Could that be how He does it??” Gary’s new life, his afterlife, becomes a quest to find meaning and purpose for himself and for the universe, and yet it is a learning experience for him, for he can hardly believe that he is here. The public he meets each, one by one, give him a new incite into reality and himself, into humanity and how all public must work collectively, and we can’t wait to see if he finally unravels it all and finds his purpose in afterlife. This book has everything a reader could want in it – suspense, adventure, satire, some laughs, and a excellent tale about public and finding meaning in life. I recommend it highly to just about everyone who likes to read – it’s hard to believe they wouldn’t find something to rave about in AFTERWORLD.
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|Fantasy and satire make a fantastic combo in afterlife!,
This is a subject not too many authors have ever dealt with in ANY capacity, let alone the ease with which this author has tackled it. Everyone wonders about afterlife, what will come after THIS life, and yet no one ever talks about it, nearly any way at all. Here, in AFTERWORLD, we find a man who goes here aptly away, in the first pages, and we trace his epic adventure, through the myriad comic cosmic font and amusing, often laughable, satirized situations he encounters even as he tries to learn exactly what all this afterlife stuff is about. The main character, Gary Townsend, is an “everyman” type of person, but a methodical doubter, who distrusts pretty much everything and everyone, especially sanctified types and religions – this makes for an fascinating and usually amusing CLASH between him and the powers that be, which can just barely tolerate his presence in their purified and orderly universe. Townsend becomes determined to change all that and add some excitement to eternity – and how he does that makes us admire him and laugh at the satirizations of many superstitions and customs that our religions and government carry around in “prior life”. This book is adventurous, intriguing, and yet to the top with situations and weird font which poke fun at the way we live and worry, and make us smile and keep rotary the pages. This is destined to be a fantastic one. Anyone who has loved excellent fantasy, or even excellent satire as produced by Orwell (“1984,” “Animal Farm”) or Huxley (“Courageous New World”), or even things like Heinlein’s “Weirder in a Weird World” will LOVE this!
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