The Girl From the El Dorado Star System
Volume One: Winter's End
Published by J. Allen Wilder at Smashwords
A madman with superhuman abilities seeks to destroy the Star Commonwealth of Arcadia in pursuit of his utopian dream. A girl who is not what she seems tries to hide a secret past while seeking revenge on an ancient enemy, before she marries the man who may be the key to her future. An independent investigator reluctantly accepts a mission from his insane aunt to track down his missing cousin. A mystic who is also the Imperator of the Commonwealth sees a fantastic future for humanity, and knows that interstellar war lies ahead. Tom Aster merely wants to get away from his psychotic mother, marry the girl from El Dorado, and have a life. The dauntless agents of the Intelligence and Security Agency are pursuing the most dangerous prey in the galaxy. The blue jackets of the Star Navy are just trying to keep peace in one small corner of the galaxy...and all roads lead to planet Calaverras in the Fortunguna star system.
At times politically incorrect, satirical, quirky, sexy, dramatic, romantic, and humorous, The Girl From the El Dorado Star System is a science-fiction/future punk story about ordinary people (and some not-so-ordinary people) who are drawn together by events, chance, and circumstance, or perhaps by the Will of God, into a fateful rendezvous in the distant future. In the process unlikely relationships form, comic situations unfold with serious consequences, and lost souls find a path leading to redemption and new life.
This particular story, The Girl From the El Dorado Star System, Volume One: Winter's End, serves to introduce the Terra Arcadian Universe and some of its main characters and secondary characters, in particular John Allen Aster, Harry Truman, Martin Feldmann, Heidi Zeiss, Dianna Falkin, Anton Sorokon, and last, but not least, the Kydervails. The Terra Arcadian Universe operates by it's own rules, with its own style (with a good deal of style borrowed from the 1960's), possessing its own quirks (definitely), and within it's own rules and limitations (of course), beginning with the rule that people are just people, after all, despite technological advances, and technological advances do have limits. And, by the way, there never was a utopian singularity. (Sorry, Raymond.)
Look for The Girl From the El Dorado Star System, Volume One coming soon at https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/jackwilder1957.
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