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Rob Shelskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795994389346053409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317982700251491299.post-67400023622312098712019-07-25T18:24:00.002-04:002019-07-25T18:24:16.447-04:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: red;">NEWS! I'LL BE ON SPACE OUT RADIO TONIGHT, 9:00 PM PST, AND 12:00 AM EST (July 25th). </span></h2>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Note From Rob: Tonight Thursday, July 18th 9 PM PT Rob Shelsky joins us to talk about
U.FO.s, Aliens and Time Travel. The Mandela Effect! Should be a fun and
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It isn't often when I get a chance to truly enjoy a radio show. last night, I was on Dr. J's show and we discussed my books, Time Travel Invasion, as well as Deadly UFOS And The Disappeared. We ran over by 45 minutes, but that was due to the great interest given by so many people who wanted to chat. And do check out my latest book, Shattered Reality The Mandela Effect. It may change your whole mind about the reality of no reality!<br />
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Rob Shelskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795994389346053409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317982700251491299.post-77369357055495804102019-05-28T15:06:00.003-04:002019-05-28T15:06:45.626-04:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white;"><b>I really enjoyed being on Coast To Coast Radio last night. We talked about my book, Deadly UFOs And The Disappeared. Had a great time!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Note From Rob: I'll be on Radio Wasteland at 9:15 PM Monday night, June 18. The subject is Time Travel, so tune in if you can! </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>http://radiowasteland.us/episode/000068/</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>CHECK THIS OUT ON YOUTUBE! A GREAT SHOW!</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVMjXccrvx4&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Late Night In The Midlands--Rob Shelsky--The Mandela Effect--CLICK ON THIS LINK.</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>NEWS ALERT!</b></span></span></h2>
<span style="color: red;"><b></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>I'm going to be attending the conference, Mysteries of Space. Check it out! I am doing two presentations. </b><span style="background-color: red;"><span style="color: white;">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mysteries-of-space-sky-2017-tickets-34671628775<span style="background-color: white;"><span></span></span></span></span></span></h2>
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Description</h3>
Welcome to the official REGISTRATION website for the 2017
edition of MYSTERIES OF SPACE & SKY !!! 'MYSTERIES' is the longest
running UFO conference in the area (about 18 years!), and one of the
longest-running in the country! This year, "by popular demand" we are
including a special PANEL DISCUSSION, featuring some of the most notable
figures and authors in UFOLOGY! Invited panelists include: <strong>COL. CHARLES HALT, USAF, RETIRED, </strong>coauthor
of the revealing recent book on the 1980 Bentwaters incident: "THE
HALT PERSPECTIVE". Arguably the world's leading expert on UFO incidents
involving water, <strong>CARL FEINDT </strong>("UFOs and WATER"), as well as the State Director of Virginia MUFON, <strong>SUSAN SWIATEK,</strong> are expected to join us. And, special guest, pionering UFO icon & author <strong>MR. DON BERLINER</strong>
('CRASH AT CORONA") is also slated to participate. These, and perhaps
other panelists will be joined by most of the actual speakers of the
day, who are as follows..........<br />
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The conference will begin (10 a.m.) with presentations by members of
VIRGINIA MUFON. Specifically UFO Investigators & TV personalities,
<strong>TONY ANGIOLA and BEN MOSS,</strong> will be giving us a
follow-up on their exhaustive investigation of the famous SOCORRO
INCIDENT of 1964, and will also discuss their research exploring
possible exotic propulsion systems by examing known UAP data. We are
expecially excited about welcoming a newcomer to MYSTERIES, author <strong>ROB SHELSKY. </strong> who will be speaking about his new book 'THE MYSTERY THAT IS MARS" <strong>A N D </strong>his previous popular book, "THE MOON IS HOLLOW AND ALIENS RULE THE SKY"<strong> </strong>
(both of which Rob will be selling/autographing). Rob has been an
invited speaker at a wide variety of venues in and outside of the U.S.,
and appeared on such radio shows as George Noory's Coast-To-Coast. Rob
was also invited to give a presentation (about his book concerning the
Moon) at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.!!! </div>
Rob Shelskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795994389346053409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317982700251491299.post-77110245372297899522017-02-13T13:38:00.002-05:002017-02-13T13:38:45.374-05:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: red;"><b>ANOTHER INTERVIEW, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2017 I will be on LATE NIGHT IN THE MIDLANDS, Live starting at 9:30 PM. Here's the info to listen in:</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><b>Note From Rob: I will be on Beyond The Veil, July 22, Friday, 8:00 to 10:00 PM. Pacific Time, and that is 11:00 PM to 1:00 AM, Eastern time. Tune in to listen all about the Invader Moon, and the Hollow Moon! It should be a great discussion! See the link to the right of this post to go to Beyond The Veil.</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="color: red;">My latest book, now out, a look at time travel, if it's real and if it has happened! You'll be amazed at how much evidence there is for time travel! Check out: Time Travel Invasion, available at Amazon in Kindle and Print, as well as in other ebook formats at Smashwords, Nook, and Xinxii, as well as many other distributors.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><b><span style="color: red;">A new book on all things UFO and Extraterrestrial, INVADER</span> </b><span style="color: red;"><b>MOON is out through Permuted Press/Simon & Schuster as of February 2016. This book isn't print-on-demand, folks! It's actually going to be on bookstore shelves at all your favorite bookstores!Was the moon always in our skies? UFO investigator Rob Shelsky doesn’t think so.
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<br />Did the arrival of our moon trigger the rise of civilization? Did it
destroy existing ones? Did it cause the Great Flood? Just who brought
the moon to us and why? And did they invade our world as well?
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Rob Shelskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795994389346053409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317982700251491299.post-27629353850966462412015-03-01T07:54:00.004-05:002019-07-18T11:21:42.072-04:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Rob Shelskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795994389346053409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317982700251491299.post-38589530936190701892015-03-01T07:54:00.003-05:002016-07-12T11:13:23.359-04:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimnrDpdXMBfDif7cACdM32lj5af1j4VN44DCs9vm-Gvu_D8kbM-1EXURWcM870u-fB-eQ46IqsGywJ_S4-ztgf-E9lz-VugoBQza3QxZNKtCDf0jEy6ihdk6qSPPI5AZ97v8YWZYs2cgQt/s640/DeadlyUFOsTheDisappearedNew2.jpg" width="364" /></b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: white;"><b><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">D</span><span style="color: red;">EADLY UFOS AND THE DISAPPEARED JUST RELEASED IN eBOOK AND PRINT FORMATS! </span></span></b><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;">extraterrestrials our “space brothers” or is there evidence of
something else, something much darker happening? The deadly side of
UFOs—just what’s going on? For too long, researchers have overlooked or
gl</span></span></span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"></span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><b>ossed over the deadly nature of UFOs. Author Rob Shelsky tackles this
issue head on. He builds a strong case, drawing evidence from multiple
sources, that UFOs are not our friends. In fact, very much the contrary
seems to be true.
<br />Step by step, Rob Shelsky argues his viewpoint, building a body of
evidence for, and citing cases to support his theory. His topics
include:
<br />—Are We The Victims Of Extraterrestrials?
<br />—The Great UFO Conspiracy—An Overview.
<br />—The Great UFO Conspiracy Theory Cover-Up
<br />—Extent Of The Coverup?
<br />—How Far Would Our Government Go?
<br />—Just What Are UFOs?
<br />—UFOs--The Killing Fields.
<br />—Damage Caused By UFOs.
<br />—Injuries.
<br />—UFOs Killing People?
<br />—Military Deaths Related To UFOs.
<br />—Deaths Of Investigators, Scientists And Researchers.
<br />—Gigantic UFOs?
<br />—The Truly Bizarre.
<br />—Deadly Forbidden Zones?
<br />—Abductions.
<br />—Crop Circles.
<br />—Animal Mutilations.
<br />—Mystery Of The Disappeared.
<br />—The Disappeared—Individuals.
<br />—Disappearance Of Groups Of People.
<br />—Disappearance Of Villages And More.
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<br />Something terrible might be in process and Rob Shelsky makes a
strong argument as to just what the nature of that "something" is and
what it entails for the human race. He not only sums up the problems we
face as a species, but shows us just what the consequences might be for
all of us as individuals, as well. For those who are squeamish and
prefer to think of UFOs as emissaries from a friendly extraterrestrial
species, this book probably isn’t for you. Rather, it is a hard-hitting,
powerful, and insightful look at the whole UFO question, in black and
white, without sugarcoating, what it might mean for us, and what it
might mean for the Disappeared.</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><b>DEADLY UFOS AND THE DISAPPEARED, AVAILABLE AT AMAZON IN BOTH KINDLE AND PRINT, AT SMASHWORDS IN ALL OTHER eBOOK FORMATS, AS WELL AS BARNES & NOBLE, XIN-XII AND OTHER OUTLETS!</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Another Note From Rob: </span><span style="color: black;">I'm going to be on Darkness Radio, </span>next Wednesday January 14, 2015 to be live on air from
9pm to midnight CST. I'm to be the sole guest, which is quit an honor! The host is "Darkness Dave." Here's what they say about their radio show:</h3>
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</span></span><span style="color: red;"><em>We are a Paranormal Radio Show on the Twin Cities News Talk AM1130 here in the Twin Cities, we are popular internationally as the Host Dave has been on Ghost Adventures, was the Lead Judge on Paranormal Challenge and is the Location Scout of Ghost Adventure and a recurring Fill-In Host for Coast to Coast Am.</em> </span></h3>
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<span style="color: red;">Note From Rob:</span> I thoroughly enjoyed being on George Noory's Coast To Coast Radioas the featured guest. It was great! As they put it:</h3>
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George Noory, host of the nationally syndicated program, Coast to Coast AM, says if he weren’t a national radio talk show host he’d be in politics. Heard by millions of listeners, Coast To Coast AM airs on approximately 564 stations in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Guam.</h3>
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While hosting The Nighthawk, a wildly successful,
late-night program on KTRS in St. Louis, Noory was recruited by Premiere
Radio Networks to guest host on Coast to Coast AM with Art
Bell. He became the permanent host of the phenomenally successful
over-night program on January 1, 2003, following Bell’s retirement.
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Noory captivates program listeners with his discussions of
paranormal phenomena, time travel, alien abductions, conspiracies and
all things curious and unexplained. He is driven, he has said, by the
desire to solve the great mysteries of our time. From his first days as
a radio broadcaster he says, “I’ve wanted to cover stories that the
mainstream media never touch—the unusual, the paranormal and things
like that. I learned that broadcast was the best business for exploring
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And I am looking forward to being on Darkness Radio, as well,
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Wednesday January 14, 2015 to be live on air from 9pm to
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<i><span style="color: red;">We are a Paranormal
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popular internationally as the Host Dave has been on Ghost Adventures, was the
Lead Judge on Paranormal Challenge and is the Location Scout of Ghost Adventure
and a recurring Fill-In Host for Coast to Coast Am.</span></i> <o:p></o:p></h3>
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So I'm really looking forward to being the "sole" guest on their on Wednesday, which is cool, as well.</h3>
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Now Available! All three books of The Apocrypha Trilogy, The God Factor, The Creator Code, and The Babylon Effect. Check out this video:<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">An ancient evil lays buried deep in the Superstition Mountains. For young photojournalist, Jenna Blakely, and DARPA agent, Kyle Fortnum, the terrifying discovery is only the beginning of their problems. As they soon find to their horror, in their hands they hold the secret to the ultimate fate of the Earth itself. There are those who will stop at nothing to get it. </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Jenna, while on assignment for her magazine, captures a picture of a bright beam of light shooting up into the night sky from the mountains of Arizona. Her editor sends her and a coworker, Peter, back to the site to investigate.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">But the strange glow has done more than just piqued her editor’s interest alone. Others have noticed. The event triggers a race amongst deadly opposing forces. </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">The first is a covert inner circle of the Bilderberg Society, intent on finding an alien weapon to achieve their ultimate goals, ones stated on the Guiding Stones of Georgia. </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Opposing them is a secret group of Jesuits known as the Hidalgos. They only owe allegiance to a centuries-dead pope. The fanatical Hidalgos are determined on keeping hidden the location of “tainted” gold, the legendary Cibola, the cities of lost gold.</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Kyle Fortnum is also sent to investigate. The beam of light has vaporized a military satellite. The government is alarmed. Moreover, the strange ray targeted a distant LaGrange point in space. There, “something” invisible seems to be lurking. </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">A Jesuit priest wanted for a double killing and sworn to stop anyone from finding the gold, Jenna and coworker, Peter, Kyle, assassins, and a maniacal ex-lover, are all thrust into fast-paced, life-or-death situations. They battle for supremacy in the Arizona Superstition Mountains, those of the legendary and famous Lost Dutchman’s Mine. </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">Somehow, Jenna, Kyle, and Peter must not only find the source of the light, but discover its secrets in time to stop an alien “something” streaking toward Earth on a mission of total destruction. As if this weren’t enough, there is something more, something else buried in those mountains. This is the lethal secret known only as the God Factor, a thing so powerful, it can destroy the entire population of Earth. And he who controls the God Factor will control Earth’s future … if it still has one. </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Cambria;">From a murdered priest in Boston to assassins in the Arizona wilderness, the battle begins. Powerful and clandestine societies struggle for control of bizarre alien weapons. A government agent and an innocent young woman fight to survive and win out against incredible odds. Somehow, someway, they must save the world not only from alien destruction, but from human caused devastation, as well. </span></span></b></span></div>
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Are You a Writer of Fiction? Need To Know How To Write Tales
Set In Medieval Times and Make Them Realistic, Not Make Mistakes? Then You
Better Check Out This Article:</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Old English Text MT"; font-size: 20.0pt;">P</span><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">itfalls </span><span style="font-family: "Old English Text MT"; font-size: 20.0pt;">O</span><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">f </span><span style="font-family: "Old English Text MT"; font-size: 20.0pt;">W</span><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">riting </span><span style="font-family: "Old English Text MT"; font-size: 20.0pt;">A</span><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">bout </span><span style="font-family: "Old English Text MT"; font-size: 20.0pt;">The Medieval Ages</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt;">(Or, How Not To End Up As The Village Idiot!)</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Astride his steed, the Black Knight thundered
down the road. He raced passed the old abbey. Its crenelated walls thrust
defiantly upward, a holy challenge to the forces of darkness. However, the
knight knew that his best hope lay in the hamlet ahead of him. It was there he
was to meet the White Wizard. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">On he galloped. He passed wattle huts of
the outlying and poorest inhabitants. He rode by the quaint stone church
with its so surprised priest. At last, the knight turned into the main street. The
inhabitants scattered like startled pigeons before him. Some ducked inside the
bakery. Others fled, some ran into the chandler’s shop. One panicked citizen, a
very wealthy merchant, sought shelter with the smithy. The Black Knight reached
the </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Hound and Hunter</span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">. It was the hamlet’s only inn. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Right, so that isn’t the greatest piece of
writing you’ve ever read. I didn’t intend it to be. Rather, it is a bad
example, an illustration of things that can go wrong with a story. This happens
when writers assume they know more about a given subject than they actually do.
Most of us have read enough medieval fantasies to think it is no big deal in using
them as settings for our own stories, right? Wrong!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Let’s start with my bad example. I have my
good knight (pun intended) riding past an abbey situated just outside of the
hamlet. In all probability that abbey wasn’t there. Moreover, although walled,
those walls weren’t likely to be crenelated. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">In addition, I have our friend passing huts,
a church with its priest, then down the main street past the usual shops and
smithy until he reaches the local inn. Wrong, wrong, and wrong again. A
village, by historical definition, had at least six houses. A hamlet had less. Therefore,
there wouldn’t be any outlying wattle hovels. There would barely be any houses
at all. In addition, there was no main street. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">If anything, it was a wide spot in the road and
that was about it. Four or five homes clustered near each other and nothing
else, not even a church. You see, another historical definition of a hamlet was
that it didn’t have a church. Maybe it was lucky enough to have a small chapel,
but that chapel would not have had a resident priest, surprised or otherwise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">We also have to dispense with my bakery and
blacksmith. Oh, and forget the wealthy merchant. He wouldn’t have lived in such
a hole-in-the-wall place. Lose the inn as well. Unless it’s on a well-traveled
highway, there wouldn’t have been enough customers to keep it going. Finally, the
chandler has to go, too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">You see, usually there were no businesses at
all in a hamlet. One other thing; watch out for young thieves running over
rooftops and hiding behind chimney pots, as in Raymond E. Feist’s, <i>Riftwar
Saga </i>novels. That’s right -- no chimneys! They didn’t appear until the late
Thirteenth Century and then only for the very rich to enjoy. Earlier, even
castles suffered along without them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">A hamlet was tiny. Usually, people situated
them where several farmers’ adjacent properties met or came together. That was
it; not much of anything else, except perhaps a lot of inbreeding and relations
that were far too close for comfort, but I digress. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Now let’s be fair here; nobody is going to
raise a hue and cry (I’ve always wanted to use that phrase) or kick you out of
the fantasy genre as being a bad author just because you happen to call a small
village a hamlet, or vice versa. For an otherwise well-written and accurate
novel, the occasional slip-up will usually go unnoticed by the reader.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">However, tossing all sorts of anachronisms into a story is a much
bigger issue. It causes major problems with the realism of your tale. You’ve
just read the hash I made of that hamlet in my example. Get the point? Describing
a true medieval hamlet, village, town, or city isn’t nearly as easy as one
would imagine, but it is important to do it right. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Just how imperative is it? Well, that depends
on whether you are writing a fantasy that is meant more as a work of historical
fiction (that feeling of gritty reality we all love), or whether you are
creating your own personal universe as a setting for your work. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">If it’s a fantasy or alternate history set in
our world, it’s an absolute must to get it as historically correct as possible,
because readers know their stuff. Many of them often read stories about the
Middle Ages because they like and want to learn more about that period. It’s
why I read Michael Crighton’s, <i>Timeline, </i>for instance<i>. </i>(However,
the less said about that particular novel, the better.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">With a fantasy universe, anachronisms are not such a looming
issue. In any author’s personal creation, houses for instance, could have chimneys.
After all, it’s their universe. They can do what they want with it. Hard to
argue with that logic, isn’t it? Besides which, it just isn’t a terrible offense
to make the occasional anachronistic mistake. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Shakespeare even did it (often). Coincidentally,
one involved chimney tops. In his play, <i>Julius Caesar</i>, he spoke of them
as being in ancient Rome.
Wrong! He also had clocks, church bells, and other things there as well. Wrong
again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Still, there is one important caveat that you
as an author should always remember. Your readers, as I’ve said, will forgive
you the odd little mistake (oh, those chimneys), and overlook slightly misused
words (village-versus-hamlet), but they aren’t stupid. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Too glaring a mistake or just too many
mistakes in accuracy and people (editors?) will notice. Trust me; that will be
to the detriment of your story and possibly your budding career as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Don’t just take my word for it. Your readers are
the final and most powerful judges. As an example, an independent reader and reviewer
of David Edding’s historical fantasy, <i>Domes of Fire,</i> referred to it as
having “teeth grinding anachronisms,” specifically such as “…cookie and mom….” He
felt that the author had been just plain “lazy.” Now that’s not a good review
when you’re trying to sell books, is it? Of course, David has written many
excellent stories and the rare clinker will not destroy him. Besides, his
descriptions of castles and fortresses were highly accurate with their outer
and inner wards, keeps, and crenellated walls. Still, for new authors such types
of reviews may have more dire consequences. (Try to remember those budding
careers!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">With real-world historical fantasies or science
fiction, it is essential to be accurate. Another reviewer, Alex Ford, of
Patrick Tilley’s book, <i>Fade Out</i>, had this to say about it:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">“I've only read one third so far but am
already annoyed by the anachronisms thrown up…. For example, when written the
book obviously dealt with a President who fought in the Pacific theatre during
WWII.” [But] “…the introduction to the President's military background states
that he finished his aviation training just as the Vietnam War ended.” </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">That would make an ace World War II pilot of
the early Nineteen-Forties not completing his necessary flight training for it until
the mid-Nineteen-Seventies, some thirty odd years after World War II ended. That’s
not a minor mistake, but rather one that interfered with the reader’s willing
suspension of disbelief, and even worse, it “annoyed” the reader. (Major rule: Never
annoy your readers!) Yet, despite this gaffe, Mr. Tilley did give concise and
detailed descriptions of the various types of fighter planes used, their maneuverability,
and how battles actually occurred. Therefore, on many subjects, his research
was top-notch, but apparently not all.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";"></span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"> Another
example, one that personally bothered me a lot, was the “glaring
anachronisms” as one critic put it, in the film, <i>Pirates of the Caribbean</i>.
The writers for that film set major portions of the story in Port Royal, Jamaica.
Unfortunately, the town of Port Royal had disappeared under the sea in a
disastrous quake long before the events of this story ever took place. Yes, I
know it was successful and a movie, but it was also a piece of historical
fantasy set in the real world; it was wrong and somebody wrote it that way. I
noticed. </span>
</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">People watching the film noticed (e.g., “glaring
anachronisms”). Moreover, books and unlike cinema, rely solely upon their individual
merit. Johnny Depp won’t magically appear to save a badly researched novel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Therefore, I repeat, this much remains true regardless
of whether it’s a factually based fantasy done in our own Middle Ages, or one
created in another universe -– getting it right is always important. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">And just as a side note to this, even with
regard to the mighty Shakespeare and his anachronisms, I’d like to point out
that essays often discuss them and sometimes not in a good way. Get it? Nobody’s
immune to destructive criticism, although some can weather it better than
others can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Anachronistic problems aside, now we know the
differences between a village and a hamlet. Right? (You do, don’t you?) However,
do you know the differences between a village and a town, a town and a borough,
or a borough and a city? Which ones had marketplaces? What were they really
like and what are authors’ usual mistakes in portraying them? </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Well first, let’s remember the period we’re
talking about and what it was like. <i>Medium Aevum </i>(Latin),<i> </i>or the
Middle Ages, refers to a period that loosely covers the time from the fall of
the Roman Empire (476 C.E.) to the rise of the
Renaissance. That’s a long time and authors forget that many changes occurred
during it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">So costuming, shoes, etc., are important to
research. You don’t want your hero-prince dressed in Thirteenth Century clothing,
but sporting Ninth Century shoes. How déclassé; people would talk and not in a
good way! </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Many famous authors, such as Mary Stewart of the <i>Crystal Cave</i>,
make these kinds of mistakes, including most who write about King Arthur. You
see, in the late Fifth Century, warriors <i>rarely</i> wore metal armor in England or Europe, but rather specially toughened leather. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">British male royalty and nobility still wore their
hair in the Roman fashion – short – not the long streaming warrior locks we now
visualize them having. In all likelihood, if King Arthur existed then, and
contrary to most authors’ descriptions of him, he was probably not and neither were
his knights, dressed in shining armor. Moreover, they probably wore their hair
quite short. (Sort of ruins the image, doesn’t it?) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">During the medieval period, the vast majority
of people lived the manor lifestyle. There would be the local lord with his castle,
a church or chapel, farmland, and a village or hamlet. Towns were rare and
cities much more so. The manor lifestyle had an agrarian-based economy with
only the occasional stranger in the form of a peddler, troubadour, or pilgrim
intruding into the daily lives of its people. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">As a writer, you should remember this. To be
realistic, your characters in such a setting should be at least a little
xenophobic, that is suspicious of newcomers, although probably still eager for
news of the outside world as well. I know, it’s contradictory, but then people
often are. However, it does make for creating some fun characters.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Some villages grew to become towns and then cities,
while some towns simply grew around a convenient market place where people from
different villages met (hence, the English reference to “market towns”). The
difference between a town and a large village is then, of necessity, a little
vague. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Still, and unlike hamlets, most scholars define
them as having switched to a merchant and market-based economy from an agrarian
one. Therefore, whether you have a large village or a small town, it should
have merchants and marketplaces where people barter, sell, and exchange goods.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Authors often stumble over this fact. I’ve
read numerous stories where good-sized villages, even towns and cities, were in
the middle of nowhere and with no visible means of support. Of course, this
means no trade and so presumably no merchants, and no market place. Whoops! </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Another one of David Eddings’ novels of the
Belgariad series had a big village located amidst swamps or “fens.” Yet oddly
enough, the population lived with many comforts. Just how did they manage to
come by these things? Was it by living off frogs’ legs and using dried mud balls
to trade for these goods? Was their annual festival fen frolicking? What did they
burn for fuel on those damp winter nights -- swamp gas? You see, it’s just not
a very believable setting. That village needed a rational source of income. It
needed a valid reason for being wherever it was. I’ll tell you what it really needed
-- a new location! However, David was very realistic at describing other
things, such as the physical discomfort of wearing armor. He was right. It was
prone to rusting, rubbing, itching, and smelling.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Towns called boroughs were different from other
towns and villages in that they were self-governing; made independent of their
lords by paying an annual tax to them. They did this because many villages were
actually the property of their local lord and what he said was law. The way to
get around that was to become a borough. The word borough derives from the Old
English word, <i>burh</i>. It referred originally to simple fortified places,
but later came to include larger population centers with defenses, usually consisting
of earthworks and/or walls. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">So, remember to wall or barricade that
borough you create. Oh, and the word <i>town</i> was a description only used in
England.
Nobody on the European Continent made such a distinction. If your setting is, say,
in Germany,
Denmark,
France,
or some other continental place, it might be wiser to avoid calling anything a
town. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Cities of the Middle Ages were not like the
cities of today. Ours are melting pots with fluid and interchanging classes of
society. This wasn’t the case then. We’re talking about a time of rigid class and
economic structure -- incredibly so. In those days, people didn’t leave the
farms for a better life in the city, because there was virtually no upward
mobility in either place -- once a peasant, always a peasant. Authors who have their
serf hero trooping off to strike it rich in medieval London are making a cardinal error. It just wouldn’t
have happened unless, of course, the serf intended to become a criminal,
because just leaving his land was a crime. He belonged to, for all practical
purposes, the noble who owned that land. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Merchants may get wealthy, but they answered to their betters
just as surely as their servants had to answer to them. Nobility, not pleased
with the wealth of merchants and guilds, passed sumptuary laws. These laws
forbade non-nobles from wearing certain types of clothing, shoes, and jewelry that
were too reminiscent of the nobles own costumes. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">In Chaucer’s time, for instance, nobility
forbade merchants to wear jewelry made of silver, so they wore silver knives
and daggers instead, thus dodging those laws. (Don’t you just hate social
climbers? The nobles apparently did.) </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">The point here is that there are more than just
physical anachronisms. There are the social or philosophical ones as well. Writers
often erroneously subscribe to their characters modern-day viewpoints and
belief systems that didn’t exist during the Middle Ages in villages or cities. Freedom
of expression, equal rights, feminism, or freedom of religion just weren’t
factors in everyday life then.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Guilds, as in villages and towns, also existed
in cities. They were often powerful, wealthy, and exercised considerable political
force in later years, but not so much during the early Middle Ages. Their focus
was hanging onto their particular piece of a city’s monopolized commercial pie.
</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Loopholes in these monopolies were few, but
some existed. A loophole created restaurants. The different guilds controlled
all types of food making from bakeries to butchers. Later, an enterprising merchant
in France,
one, A. Boulanger, opened a place in Paris
that sold soup. Guilds considered soups less as food and more as health restoratives,
or “restaurants” in French, so they didn’t bother to control it. Thus, restaurants
came into being. (Fascinating stuff, isn’t it? Don’t answer that.) Again, although
such loopholes were rare, there were some. This fact may be of use in writing
your fantasy. It’s one way your character could get around the strict
restrictions of that society. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Cities of the Middle Ages often had
universities and definitely cathedrals, along with all the support staff,
servants, and materials such institutions entailed. In fact, that was one of
the main definitions of a city; it had a cathedral versus a church for a town
or village, and a chapel or nothing for a hamlet. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Many authors forget or downplay the power the
Church wielded in cities of the Middle Ages. David Eddings, luckily, did not
fall into this trap. In his <i>Domes of Fire</i>, he had his heroes coming from
a rigidly religious, medieval, and theocratic state. He was very detailed about
its character, nature, and iron-gripping power. It did not tolerate heresy. This
is an excellent real-life portrayal.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">However, I’ve read other stories where various
authors never mention any church at all, let alone a cathedral, as being in
their metropolis. Furthermore, they often have their bigwigs deciding important
matters without any clergymen involved. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">This is a glaring error. No major decisions
about a city, including its defenses, economics, or anything else, ever happened
without the presence or potent influence of a priest, bishop, archbishop, or
cardinal. Even much later, the enormous power of Cardinal Richelieu under King
Louis of France
is legendary.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Stories that ignore the potent role of the
Church then do not seem very realistic. Raymond E. Feist, in his <i>Riftwar
Saga</i> had cathedrals, but he really didn’t dwell enough on the power and influence
of the church in my opinion. His religions came across more as cult followings
of various gods, rather than powerful state monotheisms. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">That creates a conundrum, because small cults
worshipping obscure gods, but creating such vast expensive edifices as
cathedrals would have been highly problematical. Oh, and he had chimney tops,
too! (Can’t seem to get away from those, can we?) </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Mr. Feist was excellent, however, at
portraying most other aspects of medieval city life. His cities had richness to
them when it came to detailing the architecture of such cathedrals (flying
buttresses, naves, stone columns, etc.), the everyday life of the inhabitants, dress,
and economics. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Just remember though, that authors miss a
real opportunity to add depth and dimension to their work when they fail to
portray powerful churches as a big part of that life. After all, there’s
nothing like an evil prelate to give a story a lively interest.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Cities often had ports, were major hubs of
trade and commerce, and unlike villages, they often constituted the political centers
of power. Cities could result from the growing together of towns or boroughs
that were located near, and traded with each other. The ancients founded some
cities deliberately. The Romans built Londinium, now modern London, in just this way. Constantinople, now
modern-day Istanbul,
is another example. So again, location is important, as any real estate agent
will tell you. Site your towns and cities where there is a reason for them to
be, such as at the crossroads of major trade routes, along a navigable river, or
near a deepwater harbor. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Why worry about these distinctions between hamlets, villages,
towns, and cities? Why be so thorough and careful about what’s in them and
where they’re located? The answer is simple; again, it’s willing suspension
of disbelief. If your readers aren’t buying your setting, they cannot and will
not suspend their disbelief in your story. To put it another way, they’ll
think your work is garbage! Worse, so will those infamously fussy editors to
whom you submit your fantasy. Again, this is not to say that some fudging isn’t
okay. Small village or big hamlet; who cares? Just don’t go too far with it. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Less important, but still a factor, is trying
to avoid the more common writers’ pitfalls. For example, don’t have the
innkeeper serving his customers their food at a table and the characters then using
forks to eat it. In reality, people brought their own boards upon which the
innkeeper placed their food (hence the term “bread and board”). They used only
a knife and/or a spoon. Forks were an invention of the Italians during the
later Renaissance Period. (“Sporks” came much later and only after the
invention of plastic.) Oh, and villagers and townsfolk really did love to gossip.
However, there were no local coffee houses -- no coffee, or tea for that matter,
so the local church was also the local gossip centre along with inns. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7317982700251491299" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7317982700251491299" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7317982700251491299" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">To have a good fantasy set in our medieval
period, or the author’s own universe, is to have one that seems realistic. Therefore,
you as the author should know your subject. Research it. I’d wager that most fantasy
authors aren’t even aware that there are technical differences between hamlets
or villages, or that the classification of communities such as villages or
cities involved the type of church they had. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7317982700251491299" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7317982700251491299" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7317982700251491299" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Know your subject, because only in a well
thought-out world can characters truly flourish, be three-dimensional people to
the reader, and be a place where a good plot about them can unfold. Whether you
use a city, town, borough, village, or hamlet, try to portray it as a place
where real people lived, worked, and sometimes played. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.35in;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New";">Beware! If you don’t take care in your
writing to do this, to strive for accuracy and realism, then you may end up not
as a successful writer, but rather as the village idiot. Luckily, I think
hamlets were too small even to have those…</span></div>
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Rob Shelskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795994389346053409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317982700251491299.post-83134764103626952272014-04-01T15:59:00.001-04:002014-04-01T16:03:02.009-04:00Rob's Latest Nonfiction Book Release: For The Moon Is Hollow And Aliens Rule The Sky<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdl6IfWI-j2ma1DMgzE4EFyEKkLfHsunckywwhiaE3c5Rmjjn62uMnDWv8aeCryP0zVKmM9BfRHMJc0HZdVf6lTP-ZkRQSP-x8S7YTdzywPmBV1yUH7N02XCgkU_oYy_WvkipLKoKzBGCQ/s1600/Hollow+Moon+Cover+Low+Res.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdl6IfWI-j2ma1DMgzE4EFyEKkLfHsunckywwhiaE3c5Rmjjn62uMnDWv8aeCryP0zVKmM9BfRHMJc0HZdVf6lTP-ZkRQSP-x8S7YTdzywPmBV1yUH7N02XCgkU_oYy_WvkipLKoKzBGCQ/s400/Hollow+Moon+Cover+Low+Res.jpg" /></a></div>
<b></b><b></b>Is there a “No Trespassing” sign on the Moon? Have we been warned away from there by an alien intelligence? Is the Moon hiding a hollow core, one with an alien civilization? Do aliens take to hollowed out worlds out of a very real fear?<b></b>
If anyone DID NOT BELIEVE our Moon might be hollow, it was UFO Investigator and Author, Rob Shelsky. However, after researching the facts, the author did something he rarely does. He made a complete about-face on his views regarding The Hollow Moon Theory!
Just why did he do this? For a good reason: because the evidence to support the idea of our Moon being hollow was far greater than he had ever suspected and comes from a wide variety of scientific disciplines and sources. The Author discovered there is also a veritable avalanche of evidence for the existence of aliens being on or in a hollow Moon.
If you have ever wondered if the Moon might just be hollow, after reading this book, For The Moon Is Hollow And Aliens Rule The Sky, you will wonder no more. This book includes evidence for:
-- Recorded historical evidence for our Moon not always having been in our skies.
-- Discusses the truth of the Spaceship Moon Theory (Hollow Moon Theory).
-- Names the five main theories of our Moon’s origin and what’s wrong with them.
-- Shows evidence for not just one, but possibly two hollow moons!
-- Develops a new theory, that of the Diaspora of alien civilizations to the stars.
-- Bizarre physical oddities about our Moon.
-- Strange evidence for alien structures on the Moon.
-- Weird events show evidence for aliens in space, in our skies, and on the Moon.
-- Convincing evidence and arguments as to just why the Moon is hollow.
-- Documented account of aliens and our astronauts.
-- An in-depth discussion of just what all this may mean for humanity?
And more! The author builds his case for the idea of our Moon being hollow step by easy step, and provides information from a wide variety of sources to support this theory. Is our Moon hollow? Do aliens dwell within it? Do such strange beings rule our sky? The answers all lie in For The Moon Is Hollow And Aliens Rule The Sky, a cutting edge look at all the latest ideas, theories, and facts to support them, as well as including a new theory of just why it may well be that all intelligent civilizations might take to the stars in hollowed-out worlds! And what fear drives them to do so! Rob Shelskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795994389346053409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317982700251491299.post-86859678974296657512014-03-15T08:45:00.002-04:002014-03-15T08:45:30.664-04:00This Alien Earth--Settings For Science Fiction Writers Who Just Want To Stay At Home<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: red;"><b>This Alien Earth<b>
<b>Settings For Sci-Fi/Fantasy Writers Who Just Want To Stay At Home!</b> </b></b></span></h3>
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<b><b>The wormhole was open at last. Kevin, clad in the very latest protective environmental suit, stepped through it. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>SNAP! </b></b><br />
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<b><b>He stood on the surface of a strange world. A monstrous gibbous moon hung just above the eastern horizon. It dominated the black-reddish sky. Stars could not compete with its brilliance. His readouts showed a complete lack of oxygen and deadly levels of carbon dioxide. There seemed to be no life anywhere and it was hot, very hot. Air pressure was incredibly high, and only Kevin’s suit saved him from being crushed. He felt a shudder. Earthquake! Where he stood, the ground pitched and rolled beneath him and then lifted high. Boulders clattered and tumbled. Rocks rolled and crashed. An alarm sounded. Kevin glanced at his altimeter. He, and the darkling plain he stood on had just risen almost a kilometer high! </b></b><br />
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<b><b>Just then, a strange dark wall appeared on the horizon. He heard an incredibly loud rumble. Kevin realized, belatedly, the wall was a giant wave of black water rushing toward him. It must be a thousand meters high! Just as he stepped through the wormhole again, it occurred to him that the moon of this world hadn’t been as large as he’d first thought, but just very close to the planet, instead, and so creating the tremendous tides. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>SNAP! </b></b><br />
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<b><b>He stood on the edge of a slumping cliff. Below him, receding into the distance was an ancient seabed, an endless expanse of vitreous, ochre-and-yellow sand dunes. They looked like waves of frozen Venetian glass. There was almost no atmosphere at all on this world. Unfamiliar stars glittered brittle and hard in the night sky. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>Then, a startling line of crimson appeared across two-thirds of the horizon. A vermillion sliver peeped above the lines of dunes there. The sliver grew into a monstrous crescent of ruby sun, great spots clearly visible on its roiling, heaving, and seething surface. His readouts showed the heat and radiation levels soaring as the scarlet sun rose.
In the distance, he could see the dunes glisten sanguinely, looking red-wet, as they began to melt once again with the heat of a new-born day, one born from hell. He waited no longer. He would die here if he didn’t leave. Without hesitation, he stepped through the wormhole once more. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>SNAP!</b></b><br />
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<b><b>Okay, I think we must all have the point by now. Barring just a touch of literary license </b></b><br />
<b><b>(more or less--probably more), these scenes could well have been Earth at one time or another, and probably actually were to some degree. The first scene was meant to be from early Earth not long after the oceans had formed. The last one was our planet in the far future, before our dying red sun engulfed it. Of course, there may have been no sunrise, because the Earth might have just one face eternally locked toward the sun by then. So this was just a touch of literary license here, if you will. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>You see, we think of our planet as being static in its environment and only undergoing changes slowly, over vast amounts of time. But we forget just how different the Earth was at various stages of its existence. Yes, we all know about the dinosaurs and the ice ages. We know how different things must have been then, but I don’t believe most of us truly comprehend, viscerally, on the gut level I mean, that it goes far beyond that. When people picture the dinosaur or ice ages for example, they mentally people it with those strange animals, or glaciers, but keep everything else pretty much the same, oceans, blue skies, puffy white clouds. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>Most of us don’t take into account that even the air would be different.
For example, the oxygen levels during the Carboniferous period would have been much higher than now. Fires would have ignited quickly, and burned ferociously. Moreover, there is strong evidence for microbial life forms living as far back as 3.85 billion years ago. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>Prokaryotes, single-celled life forms without a nucleus, may have also existed; yet dangerous viruses or bacteria only rarely come up in sci-fi stories and seldom in time travel tales. Why not? And an ice age is nothing compared to a Snowball Earth, when the entire planet was white, low in oxygen because of little plant life, but getting ever higher in its carbon dioxide mixture. You wouldn’t be able to even breathe there.
There were many times in the past, and there will be again in the future, when our planet was, or will be, fundamentally and totally alien to us, so different, we wouldn’t probably recognize it as ours. If you were somehow transported to those eras, you would probably believe you were on another planet altogether. </b></b><br />
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<b><b> It wouldn’t just be the animals romping around that would make you think this, or how hot or cold it was; it would be just about everything, every aspect of what you think of as familiar would be different--plants, animals, terrain, even the skies and the stars in them. I’m betting you’d find that planet incredibly hostile and strange, and probably unsafe and/or unfit for colonization by humans.
How different could it be? Well, for instance, a few million years either way would make the heavens appear utterly different to us, with a multitude of unfamiliar stars forming strange constellations. Judging by them, we wouldn’t even be able to tell if we were on our own world then. Planets might well have been in different orbits, looked very different. Something big happened to Uranus, for instance. And even a Mars-like world probably crashed into the Earth at one point. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>And as for Mars, at one time, it may have looked much like Earth--a blue world instead of red.
And, depending on whether you went forward or backward in time, the moon would be closer or farther away. It might disappear altogether; look different, without its mares, totally different patterns of craters. Or it might eventually wander away from earth altogether billions of years from now, or come crashing down on us in the far future.
We do know the moon is receding from the Earth at close to 1.5 inches a year, and so once was much closer. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>So, travel back far enough in time and you will have a bloated moon with a different-looking face suspended above you, filling the night and day sky, causing tides that would yank the land out from under you, as high as a kilometer before dropping it back, and thus causing numerous tremors at the top of the Richter scale. Go far enough into the future, and the moon will be so far away that it will appear tiny, a bright speck in the sky. Our day will be longer, and tides virtually nonexistent.
Several billion years from now, the moon will be 1.6 times farther away than it is at present. Its period of revolution will be about 55 days. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>Eventually, our world’s rotation will take fifty-five days (same tidal friction problems) and thus the moon may appear to stay in one place forever, hanging over just one portion of our planet. Anyone living on the wrong side of the planet would have to travel far to see the moon hanging in the sky. You see, only beings living in certain regions, but nowhere else on Earth, could see it. Can you imagine how strange this would seem to people alive today? Try visualizing living on an Earth where one day is equal to fifty-five of ours, and it only takes seven of them to make a whole year. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>The weather would be awful, too, on such an Earth. There would be intense heating on the sun side, terrific cooling and freezing on the other. Violent winds would be one probable outcome. Migrating oceans might be another. Oh, and don’t forget to throw in a couple billion years of evolution (if life survives that long), and you would have an Earth unknown to us, one that is truly alien, indeed! Even the sun would be much larger and a different color--a brilliant red. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>Okay, so if we travel far enough through time either way, we end up on a planet that seems nothing like our own. Length of day, temperatures, landmasses, atmospheric constituents (or none at all), size and proximity of moon (or whether we even see or have one), tides, weather, life forms, unrecognizable star patterns, strange plants and animals--all of it will be in the future, or was already in the past, vastly different from what we know today. Great places and times to set stories in then, aren’t they? (Who needs other planets when you have ever-changing Earth?)
How about changes occurring now? There is global warming and the possibility of a sudden ice age onset (another Big Chill?), but what about other things? </b></b><br />
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<b><b>Did you know, for example, that on any given day there are about twenty-four volcanoes in an erupting phase? In the past, so many volcanoes let go at once that they severely altered the constituents of the atmosphere. They produced lava fields that covered thousands of square miles (so-called Siberian Traps) and caused major biological die-offs, perhaps the biggest one in Earth’s history. Think of the stories you could write if this were to start happening again--now?
And this isn’t even taking into account super volcanoes. These monsters do not often erupt, but when they do, the consequences are chilling. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>The Yellowstone Caldera in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, is one example. For a long time we didn’t even know it existed. It wasn’t until NASA wanted to test some heat sensing equipment that we realized the caldera was even there. Visitors walked around Yellowstone every day, enjoying the geysers and boiling mud pots, not the least bit aware they were perched precariously atop an active super volcano. Many geologists consider it to be (currently) the most dangerous one on Earth! It erupts about once every six hundred thousand years or so. That means it is due any time now for another such eruption.
And remember, many scientists believe one such super volcano, about 70,000 or so years ago, reduced the human population on the entire planet to a mere few thousand! Again, this is an excellent idea for a story setting. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>If the Yellowstone Caldera blows, it will mean total devastation for hundreds of square miles around, sending tons upon tons of soil and debris high into the atmosphere. This debris will make the nuclear blast at Hiroshima look like a child’s pop-gun toy by comparison. A nuclear-style winter will engulf the Earth. Plant life will suffer and die, and then the rest of the food chain (meaning us) will, too. Ash up to five inches deep could cover the United States and most of Canada from coast to coast.
Much deeper layers of ash (feet thick) will plaster enormous areas of North America, wreaking havoc on the Great Plains breadbasket. (Word of advice: should Yellowstone go off, run don’t walk to your nearest supermarket and stock up on those canned goods! Trust me; you’ll need them.) Is that enough of an alien planet for you? </b></b><br />
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<b><b>Earth is hardly static. Transformations are happening all the time. Our planet careens from one wild swing to another, suffering numerous and swift changes that have catastrophic results for life on land, and in the seas. Some scientists, for instance, now think that ice ages might come in mere decades, instead of over centuries. </b></b><br />
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<b><b>Changes on this alien Earth are always occurring and every day.
They make great concepts for stories with settings and plots limited only by a writer’s imagination. Whether it is an author setting his or her stories in the beginning of time, Devonian period, Dinosaur Age, Ice Ages, far future, or just a few decades from now, Earth is the perfect alien planet for your story. Think about it. And it isn’t just science fiction. Many major fantasy authors have used past ages of Earth for their settings.
Next time, we’ll discuss truly alien worlds, how to create them, and how not to mess it up big time when doing so! When building planets from scratch, one has to be very careful!
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Rob Shelskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12795994389346053409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7317982700251491299.post-75296796889494977932014-02-23T12:47:00.002-05:002014-02-23T12:47:48.252-05:00The Messiah Factor--Red Rising and The Hunger Games <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE MESSIAH FACTOR</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The New Popularity Of Saviors In Fantasy And Science Fiction</b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Red Rising and Other Delights</b></div>
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Fiction, especially science fiction has always required its
heroes. These larger-than-life creatures strayed upon the fabricated stage of authors’
settings a long time ago. Inevitably, they always alter the outcome of things,
and almost always for the better. That’s what heroes do. That’s their job.</div>
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So what’s different of late? Have things changed? Yes. Over
the last couple of decades, there has been an ongoing trend toward a hero
becoming something more, something far more, and I don’t mean just a superhero
in the ordinary sense of that term (Superman, Batman, etc.). </div>
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Now, they are demigods. I don’t mean this just figuratively.
Many books, mostly those geared toward young adults, are actively creating literal
demigods as their heroes. </div>
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Whether based on the old Mt. Olympus idea, (the “Olympians,”
“Clash Of The Titans,” etc.) or those of fabricated myth and legend (“The Last Airbender”),
or whatever, all of a sudden we have a rash of new heroes with godlike powers—demigods,
if you will, by definition. Not just heroic powers, mind you, but godlike. Where
did all this originally start? Well, that’s like trying to pick a moving
target. However, I would say that the idea of the hero as a demigod really
started with the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling. </div>
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Here’s a boy who, even at birth, is clearly marked for
something greater. His lightning scar is the sigil and sign of this. He is
destined to be “more.” He has latent talents. Oddly, JK Rowling never quite
realizes them as fully as I would have thought she might have. Harry Potter
never became a superhero, not as we now see them. His latent abilities develop,
but he was never capable of the wonders of our more recent heroes in the world
of fiction.</div>
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Perhaps this was because the trend was still growing, and
Harry Potter was just the beginning of it all, so he was not yet a savior in
the full sense of the word, as in a messiah. Yes, we could point to even
earlier examples of this phenomenon, but let’s be honest here; the Harry Potter
series stands out in this regard, as well as do many others, but Rowling’s
books were the runaway big hit of all time, it seems. That’s what I’m talking
about here, the trend of “big hits in reading.”</div>
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Again, the trend is growing even from that point. The
Twilight Series is another example. In this case, the heroes are both male and
female, but the one with the powers is Edward (at least, until near the end).
Young, prepubescent to adolescent girls have fallen in love with werewolf
teenage boys, vampire teenage boys; well, whatever, just as long as they are
teenage boys who have some kind of powers, and look good with or without their
shirts on.</div>
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But it doesn’t stop there. The trend continues to grow. Now,
this is no longer true of just fantasy. Science fiction has adopted the idea of
demigods. Witness the teenager heroes of Chronicle, who develop extraordinary
powers. This is just one of many examples of recent times. Moreover, this idea
of the hero-as savior, the messiah, if you will, is gaining momentum, gaining
traction. It “ain’t” just your standard superhero anymore.</div>
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Of late, this seems to be reaching a crescendo. No longer is
it enough for the hero to be just a hero, a person who rises above the crowd,
to lead people, right wrongs, and win the day. He/she now has become something
more, much more. Heroes, whether male or female, are attaining the status of
martyrs, of saviors of all humankind. In short, they are becoming very much
like the Messiah, Jesus.</div>
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Does this sound like blasphemy? Am I way off base in saying
this? I don’t think so. Look to the books that have been made into movies of
late. Let’s start with the “next big thing,” after the Harry Potter series (not
counting the Twilight Series, of course, which has been in play for some time
now, and is another “good” example). I’m speaking, of course, of the Hunger
Games.</div>
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In the Hunger Games, by author Suzanne Collins, we have our
hero-cum-demigod in the form of “Katniss.” Although there are “boys” in the
book, and they do much to help her on many an occasion, even saving her life,
she is the undoubted hero. </div>
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She is possessed of more than average abilities. Her ability
to shoot an arrow is way above the norm. Her ability to think fast in desperate
situations almost defies logic. Not only is she the savior of herself and those
she loves, stepping in for her younger sister to participate in the Hunger Games
in her name, but she is, ultimately, the savior of civilization and the messiah
of a new world order. </div>
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Katniss abhors decadence, in particular the decadence of the
Capitol and the President. She detests slavery, and the cruel treatment of the
weak, the downtrodden workers of the world. Very Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
in her philosophy of “Workers of the World Unite. Katniss wants not only freedom
for herself, but in the process freedom for all. Does she have doubts? Does she
worry about what she is causing to happen? Of course. Katniss has her own
private Garden of Gethsemane with which to deal, as all would-be saviors must.
Let’s be honest here; it makes for good reading. Nobody likes someone who is
perfect, even if they do border on the all-powerful.</div>
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And like Jesus was at one point, Katniss is sometimes (actually,
most of the time) an unwilling savior. She doesn’t want the crown of thorns
that is being placed upon her head, and whether she likes it or not. Even so, Katniss
must grow and transmute into something special, whether she wills it, or no,
and she must become something more. First, she is a symbol, then a hope, then a
prophet and finally a savior.</div>
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Like Moses, she comes from a similar source, a people who
are virtual slaves, as with the Jews under the Pharaoh. And like Moses, she
leads her people, step by step, out of bondage. And like Moses (Jesus?) she
practically performs miracles in the process. Her emblem, the Mocking Jay, becomes
the new crucifix of her times, one by which her people are freed and led to the
“light.” </div>
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A revolution in the political sense, but also in the moral
sense, takes place. Wrongs are righted. Justice is delivered. And the meek, and
the not-so-make, inherit the earth. Of course, it takes much sacrifice, and
three books to reach this state. Katniss, by the end, has been transformed
first to a prophet (and undoubtedly a “profit,” as well, for the author,
publishers, movie producers, etc.), and then to a messiah. She is the harbinger
of a new kingdom of peace upon the earth, and in many ways, Katniss is its
literal savior.</div>
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Am I being a little sarcastic and mocking here? Yes, I am.
It’s my nature to be, and why should I have to damp it down in my own blog?
Also, I am, admittedly, a little jealous—what great ideas for novels! So yeah,
I’m a little on the sarcastic side and for good reason, I feel. It’s called
envy and bitterness.</div>
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However, this doesn’t mean I didn’t love the books, or enjoy
the movies. I did and still do. But that doesn’t make me blind to exactly what
the books were really about. They are about empowerment, for young adults,
especially young adult females. Our children, it seems, don’t just want the
same rights as adults, but they want to supersede them, be more. One can’t
blame them. After all, the books appeal to many adults (me included), as well,
and for much the same reason—empowerment and hope.</div>
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But, as many infomercials would have it, “there is more!” It
isn’t just young adult females who enjoy this sort of thing, but young adult
males, as well, although admittedly their predilection is for something a
little bloodier, a little gorier, even than the Hunger Games were. Although,
mind you, they enjoyed that trilogy very much, as well as young women did.</div>
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Now we are coming to a whole new flock of books that are
becoming popular, and probably will end up as movies in the foreseeable future,
too. As my main example, I’m referring to Red Rising. This book by author Pierce
Brown, and is gory in the extreme. There is a lot of blood in it by anyone’s
standards. I would even go so far as to say it borders on the pointless mayhem
at times. Just my opinion. </div>
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But it is popular. It is near the top of the charts at
Amazon, for one thing, and has been there for some while now.</div>
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Is it a good book? Yes, it is. Although, the editors, or at
least the editing, is often deplorable. Seldom have I seen such a major work of
fiction have so many typographical errors, so many editing mistakes. Repeated
words, sentences accidentally switched partly around, the misuse of punctuation
(major misuse, not minor), borders on the rampant in this novel. </div>
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No, I’m not talking about some ivory-tower editor type of
mistakes here, ones which the average reader wouldn’t notice, or more
particularly, care about. I’m talking about major editorial mistakes, ones that
disrupt the sentences, and sometimes even make them meaningless. They are the
kind of mistakes that causes the reader to back up and have to re-read the
sentence twice (or more). I’m not sure who edited the book, but they definitely
could’ve done better, in my personal opinion. I say this because the book is
above average in its error ratio, and annoyingly so for me. Again, just my
opinion. But then, I’m jealous! Despite these problems, the book is a great success!
Damn it!</div>
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But let’s get more specific about Red Rising. All the blood
and gore aside, we have yet another dystopian future set before us. This one
takes place on Mars to begin with. Although the premise did bother my willing
suspension of disbelief to some degree, I did ultimately buy it, and I enjoyed
the book. </div>
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Would it make a good movie? Undoubtedly. Anyone who likes
fast action, blood, gore, and a plot pace that whips right along, will enjoy
this book as a movie. I know I will.</div>
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And again, we have the hero as Messiah and Savior. Again, he
comes from the lowliest of origins, a virtual slave race. He is brought up from
the depths (literally) into the light of the day; one he did not know existed
on his world. Through great trial and sacrifice he is transmuted, transmogrified
into something more and that is a “Gold.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(See,
“demigod,” here</i>.) </div>
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He is trained, physically altered to have incredible
strength, and other abilities. So even by the standards of the ruling race, the
Golds, he is a force to be reckoned with, even amongst them. It is his ultimate
task to bring down a solar-system-wide tyranny. Can he do it? You bet he can! And
again, all willing suspension of disbelief problems aside, and there are some (for
instance, what resistance movement would bank everything on one completely
unknown “Red?), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he must make sacrifices
on his way, just as any savior, or messiah must. </div>
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I don’t want to give away too many details of the book,
because again, it is a great read and despite the typos, but let’s just say
that someone who is very near and dear to him must light the way by the
sacrifice of their blood. In other words, again, we have his personal Garden of
Gethsemane, with which our hero, if he is to become a messiah, must go through.
As with Jesus, he is tempered by this, and resigns himself to his fate, that he
is an instrument of a greater (God’s?) will than his own. Yes, he rails against
his fate, but he accepts it. </div>
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Thus, we have a new savior born, a prophet “up from the mud,”
and an ultimate savior, one in which humanity embodies all its hopes for the
future. The trouble with “the meek,” seems to be that rather like yeast, they
keep trying to rise!</div>
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This isn’t the only book in this vein. The formula is now
clear. Authors create dystopias. They then create someone who rises from the
lowest classes of the society in those dystopias. These people are usually
young, not yet twenty. They may be male or female, and seem more often to be
female of late. Through dint of circumstances, and often despite themselves and
their own desires and dreams of a more humble, less public life, they are
forced into the unwilling position of being the new prophet (again, “profit?”),
the savior, and the messiah. All of them have their talismans, whether it is a petal
of a blood blossom, a brooch with the Mocking Jay upon it, or crucifix, they
are destined to be the saviors of the human race.</div>
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One might say, with regard to the crucifix, that it’s been
done, and better before. Yet, that doesn’t stop us authors from rewriting the
story over and over. Why? Because readers enjoy them, that’s why. Authors are
prostitutes of a sort. We can’t just write whatever we want and be successful.
We have to strike a chord with our readers, we have to give them what they
want, much as Pontius Pilate did with the mob in Jerusalem. </div>
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Am I commenting negatively upon all this here? No, I’m not.
Instead, I’m about to jump on the bandwagon. I’m writing a new book even as we
speak, tentatively titled, Gray World. And yes, it is set in a dystopian future,
will feature a hero/savior/messiah. Heck, maybe two. More is better, right? </div>
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As long as readers want to read them, authors, including me,
will write them. So I will write my Gray World. You see, for one thing, I like
dystopias. For another, like most people, I like heroes. I even like demigods and
saviors. Why not? They are the stuff of our history, legend, and religions.
They are an integral part of what makes us human, I think. Even if they didn’t
exist, and some believe they don’t, the very idea of them aids the human race,
gives us hope, and a sense that everything will turn out well. </div>
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Moreover, in fantasy and science fiction, they are the
current trend, what is invoked, what is most popular. And why not? After all,
the meek will inherit the Earth, won’t they? And even if they don’t, it’s what
keeps us going, the belief that someday, they just might. </div>
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Being one of those believers, I’m all for this new trend.
The more saviors, messiahs, and demigod heroes, the better, in my personal
opinion. I intend to add to that ever-growing crowd. Why not? After all, there is profit ("prophet?") to be made.</div>
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