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Dog Island: Not the Future You Were Expecting
"US politics are crazy! Why doesn't somebody DO something?" What if they did? What would that be like? Twenty years from now, things are a little different. Welcome to the Peninsular Republic. Welcome to the Security Branch. And welcome to Dog Island.
268 pages, Paperback
Published February 2, 2020
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Joseph McConnell
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2021 08 28 - Two new books from McConnell recently:
- Dog Island
- The Stars Came Otherwise
Two people in their middle years, witty, articulate, and very, very fond of each other. Three other people, uncertain about the future and in an unlikely triangle.
A clumsy revolution, armed with a grievance and not much else.
In these two books, what had been the US State of Michigan is now a separate country, the Peninsular Republic. The story centers on a woman whose academic career ended with the Separation from the US, bringing her into the National Police force of the new government.
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Mr. McConnell is retired from a thirty year career in technology, software development, and process improvement. He's been writing, in one form or another, for decades; his article, What is a Good War?, was a cover story in the old Whole Earth Review, sharing space in that issue with people such as Allen Ginsberg. Today, he divides his writing time among fiction, humor, and business topics.
McConnell's fiction tries to show, on a small scale, how simple human flaws can have sweeping effects.
His new series about the a revolutionary new state in what had been Michigan, along with his Mac MacArthur books, demonstrates how ignorance and misunderstanding can lead to mayhem.
McConnell's plots are local/global, with events (for example) from post-colonial Africa, years ago, affecting other events, here in the US, today or in the near future. Among his characters are rather ordinary people, one or two genuinely bad guys, and many, many dogs. McConnell says, "There's a common theme in fiction writing: how will we deal with another intelligent species when we find one? I think we already have, clear back in the Paleolithic. Dogs are our oldest and best pals."
Joseph McConnell has lived most of his adult life in Michigan, and most of that in Ann Arbor. Among other things he calls "petty conceits", he thinks of himself as a capable cook.
2021 08 28 - Two new books from McConnell recently:
- Dog Island
- The Stars Came Otherwise
Two people in their middle years, witty, articulate, and very, very fond of each other. Three other people, uncertain about the future and in an unlikely triangle.
A clumsy revolution, armed with a grievance and not much else.
In these two books, what had been the US State of Michigan is now a separate country, the Peninsular Republic. The story centers on a woman whose academic career ended with the Separation from the US, bringing her into the National Police force of the new government.
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Mr. McConnell is retired from a thirty year career in technology, software development, and process improvement. He's been writing, in one form or another, for decades; his article, What is a Good War?, was a cover story in the old Whole Earth Review, sharing space in that issue with people such as Allen Ginsberg. Today, he divides his writing time among fiction, humor, and business topics.
McConnell's fiction tries to show, on a small scale, how simple human flaws can have sweeping effects.
His new series about the a revolutionary new state in what had been Michigan, along with his Mac MacArthur books, demonstrates how ignorance and misunderstanding can lead to mayhem.
McConnell's plots are local/global, with events (for example) from post-colonial Africa, years ago, affecting other events, here in the US, today or in the near future. Among his characters are rather ordinary people, one or two genuinely bad guys, and many, many dogs. McConnell says, "There's a common theme in fiction writing: how will we deal with another intelligent species when we find one? I think we already have, clear back in the Paleolithic. Dogs are our oldest and best pals."
Joseph McConnell has lived most of his adult life in Michigan, and most of that in Ann Arbor. Among other things he calls "petty conceits", he thinks of himself as a capable cook.
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