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The Ghost Wars
The Ghost Wars is a literary science fiction work focused on identity, diversity and the spiritual underpinnings of the nature of good and evil. Set in Vancouver, Canada; our protagonist RCN Captain Billington sees the world from a higher vantage point of a world in which money is no longer man’s ruler, where the health of the planet and the body politic trump all.
Alternating between three interconnecting lives, Jason Bowen, Cole Billington and Cecil Smith each have their own individual experiences of being the outlier in their world. Jason’s autistic neurology has found creative expression through the development of an intricately layered inner world. Cole’s bicultural heritage as a despised alien species with a lifespan of five centuries gives him an inherent sense of how autistics view the world. Cole’s war torn childhood on Garconer Colony has left him with his own dislocated inner aspects. Sucked up by a spatial-temporal gravity well; Cole was torn out of his own time and has been working with the Commonwealth Protection Bureau since its inception in nineteen ten. Born in nineteen hundred; Cecelia Smith began working at the CPB in nineteen twenty eight, going by the name Cecil. Cecil’s life as a transgender man parallels Jason’s own gender queer one.
The Ghost Wars aims to bring readers a new understanding of the issues surrounding gender variation, atypical neurology and spirituality with a futuristic twist. By utilizing a narrative dialogue reminiscent of Plato’s ‘Republic’, characters discuss issues of gender identity, autistic neurology and the legitimacy of emerging Gnostic cults.
Edition 2 has an added time line of the Ghost Wars.
Alternating between three interconnecting lives, Jason Bowen, Cole Billington and Cecil Smith each have their own individual experiences of being the outlier in their world. Jason’s autistic neurology has found creative expression through the development of an intricately layered inner world. Cole’s bicultural heritage as a despised alien species with a lifespan of five centuries gives him an inherent sense of how autistics view the world. Cole’s war torn childhood on Garconer Colony has left him with his own dislocated inner aspects. Sucked up by a spatial-temporal gravity well; Cole was torn out of his own time and has been working with the Commonwealth Protection Bureau since its inception in nineteen ten. Born in nineteen hundred; Cecelia Smith began working at the CPB in nineteen twenty eight, going by the name Cecil. Cecil’s life as a transgender man parallels Jason’s own gender queer one.
The Ghost Wars aims to bring readers a new understanding of the issues surrounding gender variation, atypical neurology and spirituality with a futuristic twist. By utilizing a narrative dialogue reminiscent of Plato’s ‘Republic’, characters discuss issues of gender identity, autistic neurology and the legitimacy of emerging Gnostic cults.
Edition 2 has an added time line of the Ghost Wars.
380 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 13, 2012
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May 25, 2025DNF
I'll have to come back to this one later on.
I found the dialogue clunky in chapter 12 (and others) when the characters mentioned each other by their names in each paragraph. I've never heard anyone speak like that; it's unnecessary and way too much. I also couldn't keep up with one of the characters' multiple personalities.
Don't get me wrong—this story has a good premise, but I'm not in the right headspace to continue.
I'll have to come back to this one later on.
I found the dialogue clunky in chapter 12 (and others) when the characters mentioned each other by their names in each paragraph. I've never heard anyone speak like that; it's unnecessary and way too much. I also couldn't keep up with one of the characters' multiple personalities.
Don't get me wrong—this story has a good premise, but I'm not in the right headspace to continue.
May 20, 2012
Wonderful
Talented new writer.....Cole has a magic touch.
Looking forward to reading more of his stuff.
Talented new writer.....Cole has a magic touch.
Looking forward to reading more of his stuff.
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