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The End of the Sixties
Melona was a recent college graduate looking for a job in New York City. Andy was a former lumberjack who worked part time at a bookstore in San Francisco. Invisible beings decided that these two needed to be brought together. An emergency rescue had been approved for desperate space aliens. Planet Earth was perfectly situated. An unlikely gang of dimension-hoppers got thrown together to bring them over.
Tragedy attracts greed. The secrets of reaching a parallel, but invisible, part of the universe would create a huge competative advantage. A cosmic adventurer was diverted to Earth to keep the bad guys at bay. An ancient anca prepared the exotic portal. Rival forces gathered at the sixties Woodstock Rock Festival, to focus people power on the rescue tunnel. Dastardly deeds waited in the dripping twilight.
Neil Woodhall grew up during the 1950s. World War Two had just ended. Nuclear war seemed inevitable. Then the sixties burst upon the scene. A new generation believed that we must stop the madness. We got crushed by the powers. Memories linger.
The way it had felt back then was that, “There was something cosmic in the air.” It flowered, then faded. Maybe it will reappear. Or won’t. Some called it the sixties vibe.
Life goes on. Neil married Stina and they raised a family. During those years he always wrote. How could that awesome vibe be captured in words?
The End of the Sixties gives fictional answers to big questions. Advances in astronomy have revealed a new cosmic geography. The wisdom of the ancients fills cultural gaps. The reader is invited to find what is in this story for them.
Deep Time Stories - JeshNim Trilogy
It’s a big universe out there. Storytellers have always known that. In the olden days they spoke with golden tongue about mighty gods and goddesses, lording it from mountain tops, or lurking beneath the encircling sea. Big was based on what eyes could see.
Telescopes changed all that. Bigness was replaced by vastness. Science fiction rose to the literary challenge. What any storyteller needs is place and plot to fuel their imagination. In recent years, detailed supercluster maps have become available. Our place in space is brimming with stunning details.
Deep Time Stories are based on two methods. Backstory relies on these new sky maps. The fiction is based on a broadened view of stock characters. Each type of being exists in their own realm. All of us together have important roles to play.
As soon as that green tunnel gets connected then …