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"Tomorrow, as the Crow Flies" is a book of ideas. Written in the
style of a blog, it covers such philosophical topics as the absence
of a soul, issues of personal identity and community, core values
for modern life, and the nature of truth. Personal, social, and
political concerns are also discussed, with a unique form of
government offered for consideration in the author's 'control
socialism'. Each chapter consists of the recorded lectures of a
wandering thinker, a present-day Zarathustra, and is followed by
the comments and narratives of one of his disciples, along with an
assortment of voices from those reading the content online. It will
offend, entertain, uplift, and most of all challenge readers to
look at themselves and their world in an entirely different way.
When winter stretches on for half the year and people are forced to
spend entirely too much time indoors, strange things are bound to
happen. Randolph's city of Sornsville, and the local coffee shop he
works at, are no exceptions. But through all the irate customers
and cryogenically preserved mammals, the drinks that magically
disappear just when their order has come up, and the simian clerks
that know far too much for their own good, Randolph somehow manages
to keep an even keel. Here are twenty linked stories, or twenty
episodes if you will, about Randolph and the small, frozen, and
thoroughly odd part of the world he inhabits.
Rampant climate change. Unchecked and self-serving authorities.
Clinging to imported traditions. Thriving but hostile indigenous
tribes. Racism. Starvation. Murder. It is Western Settlement,
Greenland, late fifteenth century, and the Norse colony there is
plagued by all these problems and many more. Green Skies tells
their tale through the eyes of a young farmer named Bjorn Thorsson.
Season after season, from midnight sun to polar night, the
colonists' hardships mount until the settlement's very survival is
in question. Will the Norse be able to limp their way through
another harsh winter? Or will the Inuit finally push them over the
brink? Will Bjorn be able to find peace in his eerily modern
medieval world? Or will he succumb to the despair that haunts his
neighbors and afflicts his nation? Green Skies is a story of the
struggle we all face to survive in a changing world--physically,
certainly, but much more so psychologically.
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