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Last updated on: 17th January, 2006
Signs & Portents
Synopsis & Dramatis Personae
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Our story begins in the not too distant future in Berkeley, California. The "states" have seceded, arranging themselves variously as Pac States, where Berkeley is located, the Atlantic States, the Black Republic, etc. see chapter 26 for details.
Relations are "friendly," with the Federal government, which contains only a small strip of territory and the army. Each split off "state" appears to be independent, but habituated to the previous United States.
Berkeley Locale Carl G. J. O'Leary: A young, forcibly retired flight controller. (He had an experience with a flying saucer which seems to be the reason for his forced retirement—although, there is not much future in his line of trade—flights are becoming fewer, yielding to a lack of resources.) Miriamne O'Leary: Carl's mother and amateur Middle Eastern scholar, Berkeley resident Sharif Mark: Friend of the O'Leary's, average young Berkeley resident Barry Newman: Roommate of Sharif, Berkeley resident and political science major Farlan Jessup: Berkeley apartment house manager, sewage plant employee, and forgotten veteran of foreign wars. Morton Wilson: Berkeley nuclear physicist, solar power project head, and ordained minister Hazrat Ayyub Kemosh: Part-time, but determined Arab terrorist Ezzedin Nefaric: Reluctant Arab terrorist, U.S. citizen Catwood O'Leary: A sensitive feline gentleman with family problems. Prunella Melchor: A temporary Berkeley resident on a strange mission London Locale: Robert Harrold: A publisher, when the world was sliding out of print. He happens on to a mysterious manuscript and subsequent events develop. So far as he was aware, he was one of the few people in the world who possessed a clue that the unraveling of the world might have a solution. High Priest of the Refai: He pursued the illusive B. J. Thomas until the very end. Indonesian Locale: His Royal Highness, Prince Subroto: As a very young child, he had seen a miracle, and was anxious to tell about it. Lanatos: (at about 1200 BCE) Balen: A diplomatic seer, with a strong sense of loyalty Papalos: An indifferent apprentice seer Harmeg: A visitor to Lanatos, an astrologer of foreign extraction Harpolos: An Achaean national living in Lanatos Ibar: a Lanatoan resident, friend of Balen, the seer Ulik: Lanatoan Dolphin Master Minos: High king of Lanatos Undiscovered Worlds Press email:admin@undiscoveredworldspress.com |
Chapters1. Lights in the Sky 2. The Unraveling World 3. The Cup of Ahura Mazda 4. The Javanese Connection 5. The Secret Brotherhood 6. A Rose Red City, Half as Old as Time 7. The Grape That Can with Logic Absolute 8. A Muezzin From the Tower of Darkness Cries 9. This Chequer-Board of Nights and Days 10. The Song of Spirulina Part 1 11. Iram Indeed is Gone with all its Rose 12. Who is the Potter, Pray, and Who the Pot? 13. Behold, a Pale Horse 14. Like Snow upon the Desert's Dusty Face 15. Karshipta 16. Men Make Them Fires on the Hearth 17. What the Vintners Buy 18. The Door of Darkness: Part 1 18. The Door of Darkness: Part 2 19. At the Winter's Gate 20. And Lo! the Hunter of the East 21. And This First Summer Month that Brings the Rose 22. I think the Vessel, that with fugitive Articulation... 23. And Out of it, as Wind Along the Waste 24. Ah, but my Computations, People Say 25. A Scarce Heard Whisper 26. A Hair, They say Divides the False and True 27. Alas! It is All Delusion 28. The Ball no Question Makes of Ayes and Noes 29. The Song of Spirulina Part 2 |
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