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1. DR Derizan IntroDERIZAN’S JOURNEY: A STORY BEING WRITTEN The world of Descending Road holds some stories begun but not yet told. The writing is happening right now, as Derizan and his companions, escaping from a forced march into genocide, grapple with a flight into the unknown. The new writing, in the form ...
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2. VAGABOND MIND: A Visual Tour IntroVAGABOND MIND: A Visual Tour How did the story of Descending Road and its World, with all of its forms, stories, functions, and visions, grow out of a rejected novel? The whole answer is long and twisted, but it can be condensed into an entertaining look into its maker's ...
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3. VAGABOND MIND Chronicle - An IntroductionVAGABOND MIND: A Chronicle of Invention An Introduction This is the long strange story of a mind’s traces on the journey of innovation. Innovators start out lost, and stay lost through almost all of their explorations. Why? First, where they go there are no maps, or if somebody ...
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4. The Cold Romance of Sleep: A SampleTHE COLD ROMANCE OF SLEEP: A Sample A starship doctor, Miriam Parker, has arrived at the ship's destination, 12,000 years after its departure from Earth. 0 NC, Day Minus 150 She refused to look at Opo Bira Lima and its big moon, Layo Lamba, so much like the Earth and ...
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5. Realities IntroREALITIES: Despair and Hope We stop, look at one another… it’s what we do. I write about the human life I see as other write about it all as well. We share a mighty conversation. A lot of what I write about the life around me is brief. Sometimes ...
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6. Brain Wrecks - An IntroductionBRAIN WRECKS: Stories “Wonderfully detailed worlds propel these enthralling stories.” – Kirkus Reviews Here’s a selection of 25 stories of mine, in five sets and in many tastes. You’ll find stories long and short and very short, stories that make sense and nonsense, stories that feel as if ...
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7. Leaves of a Mallorn IntroLEAVES OF A MALLORN: Essays and Reflections on Tolkien’s Masterworks Over his long lifetime, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote an entire rich and glorious world that has enchanted millions of readers. It has inspired and energized generations of writers, fired the imaginations of filmmakers, musicians, and artists, and ...
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8. DR BKS TARNUS STORIESDESCENDING ROAD STORIES You can find five Tarnus stories in the Brain Wrecks story collection. Here are just a few scenes from the five: In SPICE ON HOT STEEL, Engel gets a bite to eat while dead bodies get dug out of a wall across the street. The Scene, Scene ...
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9. MALLORN INTROLEAVES OF A MALLORN: Essays and Reflections on J. R. R. Tolkien’s Masterworks I’ve been a deep-seeking Middle-earth wanderer ever since 1965, when I first opened a book titled “The Hobbit” and fell in love with a whole world of imagination. And when I finished reading “The Lord of the ...
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10. MALLORN: Being a HobbitBEING A HOBBIT We all love to see the little guy, the underdog, win the day. It may look corny or trite in some tellings, but prevailing against all odds makes a great story any time. And when the hero or heroine is one of the 'little people', like you ...
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11. DR ST5 LOSING MY APPETITELOSING MY APPETITE I’m sitting in Zillbang’s Light Restaurant, an arched stone room thirty feet square and a mile underground, picking at the scales on the back of my left hand. I’m looking for a killer. Shouting and singing in the understreet outside bang words and drums and bells together ...
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12. DR ST5 LOSING MY APPETITELOSING MY APPETITE I’m sitting in Zillbang’s Light Restaurant, an arched stone room thirty feet square and a mile underground, picking at the scales on the back of my left hand. I’m looking for a killer. Shouting and singing in the understreet outside bang words and drums and bells together ...
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13. DR BKS A SAGADESCENDING ROAD AND ITS WORLD: A SAGA Starship colonists from Earth crashed on the planet Tarnus and survived for twelve thousand years. Clans, dynasties, and cultures have come and gone, and now the world – called Tarnus by its human dwellers – leaks hints of potent, long-hidden, alien infiltration. Now ...
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14. DR BKW THE WORLDDESCENDING ROAD: THE WORLD The setting of “Descending Road” might as well be a character itself – or an entity worthy of its own story. In “Descending Road: The World”, that story tells itself in bits and pieces, as if we were visitors, tourists, wanderers, stumbling into one ...
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15. Descending Road and its World: The Living BookDESCENDING ROAD AND ITS WORLD: The Living Book You can get all of Descending Road and its world just by buying the Kindle version. But there’s another way to try an older version of it, right here, online. It’s fun. It makes reading quicker and easier – like surfing. ...
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16. Descending Road and its World: A Virtual WalkthroughDESCENDING ROAD AND ITS WORLD: A Virtual Walkthrough The Descending Road story has a three-dimensional, virtual-world, walk-through model of one of its most-important settings: the city called Tarnus. It’s online at the Kitely virtual-world site. A few illustrations are here, just to give you an idea. But there's a ...
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17. OUT OF PLATO'S CAVE: A DREAM JOURNEY, PART ONEOUT OF PLATO'S CAVE: A DREAM JOURNEY, PART ONE This book is the first of two parts. Here is a dream, a story, an entertainment, a fantasy, a journey. It is not a disciplined exposition or scholarly exploration – it has footnotes, but they get into arguments with ...
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18. OUT OF PLATO'S CAVE: A DREAM JOURNEY, PART TWOOUT OF PLATO'S CAVE: A DREAM JOURNEY, PART TWO Here is Part Two of this big book: a dream, a story, an entertainment, a fantasy, a continued journey. It is not a disciplined exposition or scholarly exploration – it has footnotes, but they get into arguments with the ...
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19. DR BK1 INTO STONEDESCENDING ROAD: INTO STONE This sweeping tale, the first book in the “Descending Road” series, plunges the reader into the lives of Andrew, a deeply-lost boy; Arlen, a ruthless magnate; Jeddin, a mysterious trickster; and Marra and Deen, a pair of very-unusual women. All of them work their ...
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20. DR BK2 OUT TO SKYDESCENDING ROAD: OUT TO SKY “Descending Road: Out to Sky”, the second book in the “Descending Road” series, takes the reader deep into the intense confrontation between Andrew, now a mature man of unexpected capacities, and Arlen, now risen to great power as he enlists aliens in his ...
