Just imagine being able to eat as many sweets, cookies and icecreams as you like, which are not bad for you, do not damage your teeth, or make you fatter or sick or even give you spots! Then imagine the most amazing fancy dress shop full of weird and wonderful things - masks for Halloween, witches and ghouls, witches' hats, broomsticks and even witches' cats - costumes for Batman, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella, wigs and lots of different types of make-up from a fairy princess to Dracula and Star Wars, and being able to try everything on whenever you want to! And lastly, imagine being "discovered" and becoming a pop star with your own band and appearing on stage just like you see on TV! Wouldn't any of these things be pure magic - a dream come true? Well all of these things happen to Samantha when she finds the Magic Sunglasses: their wonderful power supports her and shows her what you can do if you really try! Samantha is a quiet loving child, gifted and imaginative, but reduced to living in a world of her own by her uncaring family and her lonely humdrum life. One day she finds the Magic Sunglasses - or perhaps they find her? Now, these are certainly no ordinary sunglasses - they have a strange and marvellous power which supports and guides Samantha, allowing her to escape to the life she has only dreamt about before. Unusual and wonderful things start to happen to her. First of all she is "discovered" by Harry Hypealot while dancing to the juke box in the Great Chocolate Fantasy - an amazing shop where you can eat some of the clothes they sell as well as the ice creams, and the juke box looks like a giant box of smarties! Then Samantha learns to look at people in a very different way. She discovers that she can look into their minds and actually see what they are thinking - a sort of coloured 'halo' or 'shadow' shows their true character. When she goes to France to rescue her poisonous sister, Amanda, she can of course suddenly speak perfect French! Eventually, after many adventures, and with the help of Harry Hypealot, and her friend Miss Carly Cancan, the owner of The Witch's Wardrobe, Samantha becomes a pop star, more successful (some say) than the Spice Girls. At last her dream has come true. Then something amazing happens. Samantha realises she doesn't need the Magic Sunglasses anymore, because she has learnt to depend on the special power within herself. It is time to return them now, so they can help someone else with a dream - perhaps someone like you?

What will the world of the future look like? With an increasing number of lesbian, gay and transgendered (trans) people in society becoming a normal part of the evolution of our species, what could the future look like with this additional social dynamic? This story follows that line of thought. In the world of the Genite Chronicles the trans part of the population not only grows but undergoes a sequence of events that leaves them in a superior position in society. In A Link to the Past we are at a point where the trans part of society has to deal with this perception of a class system held by the rest of society. Amidst the unfolding of the trans (Genite) political issue, A Link to the Past follows the human races expansion into our own solar system. In this future world, off world living and traveling is as common as sea travel in 2005. The story begins in the world capital - San Francisco which is located in the country of California. United Terran Council (UTC - a future manifestation of the United Nations), which places her on Europa, home to a mining settlement, to handle what appears to be a social rights problem. What unfolds on Europa blends the political and futuristic setting dynamics with elements of Earth folk lore. As an added element of interest a number of current events have been woven into the history of the story. California and several other states succession from the United States, the formation of the Nation of California and the success of the United Nations in becoming the United Terran Council all add to the social intrigue of the story line.