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The Ganymeade Protocol
Alternative cover edition for ASIN B00R40UF5O
Katie has a problem. As a young woman in an increasingly repressive world, it seems every day more options are closed to her, and surprising changes in her relationship with her girlhood friend Sandy are apt to land both of them in a state reeducation camp. When her stepfather begins making noises about "finding her a suitable husband." Kate knew she had to do something. What that something would be is a bit of an issue. The newly unified Europe is off limits to Americans, as are the shining cities of Suriname and Venezuela, and crossing the heavily fortified Canadian border is out of the question.
But out on the warming waters of the Gulf and Caribbean sails The Fleet, a collection of small boats with its roots in the pirates of the early 19th century. It is a place of artists and rebels and iconoclasts, of dangerous free spirits and pirates, circling endlessly in the waters, rafting when they can, sailing when they must. The righteous government of America hates them with a passion. It's said, in the Fleet, you can be anything you say you are. It's said, in the Fleet, there are no rules, no judgments, only the freedom to be who you are.
And out at the docks sits the little sailboat Ganymeade, lovingly built by Kate and her late Father before the cancer had eaten him. Kate has a plan. A plan to escape with Sandy, a plan to be free, and despite the threat of insane governments, religious wackos, and looming natural disasters, a plan to, just maybe, become part of something greater than herself.
She calls it the Ganymeade Protocol.
Katie has a problem. As a young woman in an increasingly repressive world, it seems every day more options are closed to her, and surprising changes in her relationship with her girlhood friend Sandy are apt to land both of them in a state reeducation camp. When her stepfather begins making noises about "finding her a suitable husband." Kate knew she had to do something. What that something would be is a bit of an issue. The newly unified Europe is off limits to Americans, as are the shining cities of Suriname and Venezuela, and crossing the heavily fortified Canadian border is out of the question.
But out on the warming waters of the Gulf and Caribbean sails The Fleet, a collection of small boats with its roots in the pirates of the early 19th century. It is a place of artists and rebels and iconoclasts, of dangerous free spirits and pirates, circling endlessly in the waters, rafting when they can, sailing when they must. The righteous government of America hates them with a passion. It's said, in the Fleet, you can be anything you say you are. It's said, in the Fleet, there are no rules, no judgments, only the freedom to be who you are.
And out at the docks sits the little sailboat Ganymeade, lovingly built by Kate and her late Father before the cancer had eaten him. Kate has a plan. A plan to escape with Sandy, a plan to be free, and despite the threat of insane governments, religious wackos, and looming natural disasters, a plan to, just maybe, become part of something greater than herself.
She calls it the Ganymeade Protocol.
155 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2009
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About the author
Don Elwell
13 books11 followersDr. Don Elwell has been, in his time, actor, director, playwright, college professor, blacksmith, swordsman, innkeeper, restaurateur, bookseller, and, on top of all that, an avid sailor. He is the author of the oddly prophetic "Coyote Trilogy" of plays, the novels "An Alien's Guide to Sears and Roebuck," "The Ganymeade Protocol," and "Zarabeth's World," along with numerous works on history, theatre, and sociology. He currently resides aboard his sailboat "Constellation" in the Chesapeake.
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March 6, 2010
This book started nearly a three hour discussion in our book club. It bounces between the 19th century and the near future, in an entirely too believeable America gone insane and two young women who steal a boat to escape it. They wind up with this fleet of small boats that have founded this kind of floating community in the Caribbean and start a new life. The characters are really strongly drawn, the historical research seems first rate, and the vaguely anarchist floating state fascinated everybody that read it. Anyway, the book is a definite must read in my book, if you'll pardon the repitition. Its available as a download too, through the publisher www.wildshorepress.com
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