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Starseed R/evolution: The Awakening
Earth is in peril. Is the only hope for salvation a five-year-old, half-human, half-Arcturian prince and a master Starseed mystic?
Enter the extraordinary world of Crown Prince Ian, the last surviving heir of the Royal Arcturian Family of Antwar. He’s half-human, half-alien, with an IQ approaching 200 and a penchant for Swiss chocolates and defending humanity from itself. Is he Earth’s savior from climate change? Or, as his genetic grandmother would say, only another mensch?
Written in 2100—in the tradition of Marcus Aurelius, Winston Churchill, Sun Tzu, and Kanye West—Prince Ian recounts firsthand the most thrilling and critical years of the Orion Wars, an intergalactic struggle between good, evil, and the merely tolerable. From space reptiles pulling the strings in D.C. to sperm-gathering Greys at the Battle of Woodstock and the terrifying realities of global warming, Prince Ian shares his deepest observations and memories to inspire readers throughout the cosmos to think, laugh, and ascend.
A Gulliver’s Travels for the twenty-third century, Starseed R/evolution provides satire, adventure, pop psychology, mystical exploration, and a breath of fresh air in a world choking on its own hubris. From the New York Times bestselling mind of a controversial world-renowned scientist comes a work audacious in its scope and startling in its ultimate message of the ecocide facing our planet, including real solutions and a reading experience you will never forget.
Enter the extraordinary world of Crown Prince Ian, the last surviving heir of the Royal Arcturian Family of Antwar. He’s half-human, half-alien, with an IQ approaching 200 and a penchant for Swiss chocolates and defending humanity from itself. Is he Earth’s savior from climate change? Or, as his genetic grandmother would say, only another mensch?
Written in 2100—in the tradition of Marcus Aurelius, Winston Churchill, Sun Tzu, and Kanye West—Prince Ian recounts firsthand the most thrilling and critical years of the Orion Wars, an intergalactic struggle between good, evil, and the merely tolerable. From space reptiles pulling the strings in D.C. to sperm-gathering Greys at the Battle of Woodstock and the terrifying realities of global warming, Prince Ian shares his deepest observations and memories to inspire readers throughout the cosmos to think, laugh, and ascend.
A Gulliver’s Travels for the twenty-third century, Starseed R/evolution provides satire, adventure, pop psychology, mystical exploration, and a breath of fresh air in a world choking on its own hubris. From the New York Times bestselling mind of a controversial world-renowned scientist comes a work audacious in its scope and startling in its ultimate message of the ecocide facing our planet, including real solutions and a reading experience you will never forget.
448 pages, Hardcover
Published March 1, 2022
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About the author
Richard I. Horowitz
9 books34 followersDr. Richard Horowitz is a board-certified internist and the medical director of the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, an integrative medical center which combines both classical and complementary approaches in the treatment of Lyme disease and other tick-borne disorders. He has treated over 13,000 Lyme and tick-borne disease patients in the last 30 years, with patients coming from all over the US, Canada, and Europe to his clinic. He is former Assistant Director of Medicine of Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and is one of the founding members and past president elect of ILADS, the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society. He is also past president of the ILADEF, the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the education of health care professionals on tick-borne diseases. Dr Horowitz has trained over 200 healthcare providers in diagnosing and caring for patients with treatment-resistant tick-borne disorders and was previously awarded the Humanitarian of the Year award by the Turn the Corner Foundation as well as awards from Project Lyme for his treatment of Lyme Disease. He has dedicated his life to helping those stricken with this devastating illness.
He is also the author of two best-selling books on Lyme disease, Why Can’t I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease (2013, St Martin's Press, NY Times Best Seller), and How Can I Get Better? An Action Plan for Treating Resistant Lyme and Chronic Disease (2017, St Martin's Press, National bestseller). These books incorporate recent scientific advances and explain in detail how healthcare providers can effectively diagnose and treat resistant chronic illness. In addition, he has co-authored peer-reviewed Lyme guidelines, and published in the medical literature on novel “persister” drugs for the treatment of Lyme disease and coinfections, as well as the role of the 16-point MSIDS model in chronic illness.
Other projects include Dr Horowitz serving as a consultant to governmental agencies around the world, including those in China, Australia, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Dr Horowitz was a member of the HHS Tick-borne Disease Working Group and Co-chair of the “Other Tick-borne Diseases and Coinfections” subcommittee from 2017-2019 which provided recommendations to Congress to help the US improve the care of those suffering with tick-borne disorders. He recently served as a member of the HHS Babesia and Tick-borne Pathogen Subcommittee and was elected by Governor Cuomo to serve as a member of the NYS DOH Tick-borne disease Working Group in 2021.
Finally, Dr Horowitz recently published several scientific articles on classical and integrative solutions for COVID-19 which have been effective in helping those with acute and chronic illness, and he will be releasing his first novel, Starseed R/evolution, ‘The Awakening’ a cli-fi (science fiction/climate change) novel in the Fall of 2021, which will provide novel, potential solutions to our present climate crisis.
He is also the author of two best-selling books on Lyme disease, Why Can’t I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease (2013, St Martin's Press, NY Times Best Seller), and How Can I Get Better? An Action Plan for Treating Resistant Lyme and Chronic Disease (2017, St Martin's Press, National bestseller). These books incorporate recent scientific advances and explain in detail how healthcare providers can effectively diagnose and treat resistant chronic illness. In addition, he has co-authored peer-reviewed Lyme guidelines, and published in the medical literature on novel “persister” drugs for the treatment of Lyme disease and coinfections, as well as the role of the 16-point MSIDS model in chronic illness.
Other projects include Dr Horowitz serving as a consultant to governmental agencies around the world, including those in China, Australia, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Dr Horowitz was a member of the HHS Tick-borne Disease Working Group and Co-chair of the “Other Tick-borne Diseases and Coinfections” subcommittee from 2017-2019 which provided recommendations to Congress to help the US improve the care of those suffering with tick-borne disorders. He recently served as a member of the HHS Babesia and Tick-borne Pathogen Subcommittee and was elected by Governor Cuomo to serve as a member of the NYS DOH Tick-borne disease Working Group in 2021.
Finally, Dr Horowitz recently published several scientific articles on classical and integrative solutions for COVID-19 which have been effective in helping those with acute and chronic illness, and he will be releasing his first novel, Starseed R/evolution, ‘The Awakening’ a cli-fi (science fiction/climate change) novel in the Fall of 2021, which will provide novel, potential solutions to our present climate crisis.
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November 30, 2024
well that was certainly an audiobook, I hope jamie (the narrator) got paid extra for singing the song.
(this was read for r/fantasy's book bingo for the "judge a book by its cover," mostly because I hoped the ms paint looking cover wasn't going to be a harbinger of the contents inside. I was wrong.)
Despite many different individuals in the book, the only one who had any semblance of personality is what I assume is the author's self-insert, Doorjay. There's no plot to speak of, it's mostly just set dressing and Doorjay spouting whatever knowledge he wants to, with sock puppets asking rhetorical questions. All but three characters-with-dialogue are from the global north, with most from the US, and the majority of the action takes place in the US. There's a distinct lack of dissention in the novel, which I suppose makes sense for the first bit, because the vast composition of the onscreen folks are military, but there's no dissent from the civilians? From anyone in the global south? (also, bold assumption based on the rising heat temperatures that locations in the global south [in addition to the global north] would have consistent access to electricity and the internet, because they're spotty enough as it is today, but that's a thought experiment for another novel). Probably fails the Bechdel test, as there aren't really a whole lot of women in the first place, and only 1.5 have any appreciable screentime. There's also no enby folks mentioned at all and everyone seems to be aggressively straight (although alien x human relationships seem to be moderately OK? so I guess baby steps).
I will say that the beginning of the book (like maybe the first 30%) does seem to have some interesting lore interactions which are never brought up again! But once the book hits about 40-50% the quality in terms of characters and plot goes downhill significantly, and the dialogue ramps up to very mind-numbing degrees. I felt like Charlie Brown being lectured to by adults.
The best thing I can say about this book was it was ok background noise for my botany/carpenter scrip farm, because I may have gone crazy listening to the zone music for 13 hours.
If you'd ill-advisedly want to read this for your own book bingo square, it does meet the criteria for Dreams, Prologue, and Survival (possibly also Eldritch Creatures, but they're more garden variety demons, zombies, etc).
(this was read for r/fantasy's book bingo for the "judge a book by its cover," mostly because I hoped the ms paint looking cover wasn't going to be a harbinger of the contents inside. I was wrong.)
Despite many different individuals in the book, the only one who had any semblance of personality is what I assume is the author's self-insert, Doorjay. There's no plot to speak of, it's mostly just set dressing and Doorjay spouting whatever knowledge he wants to, with sock puppets asking rhetorical questions. All but three characters-with-dialogue are from the global north, with most from the US, and the majority of the action takes place in the US. There's a distinct lack of dissention in the novel, which I suppose makes sense for the first bit, because the vast composition of the onscreen folks are military, but there's no dissent from the civilians? From anyone in the global south? (also, bold assumption based on the rising heat temperatures that locations in the global south [in addition to the global north] would have consistent access to electricity and the internet, because they're spotty enough as it is today, but that's a thought experiment for another novel). Probably fails the Bechdel test, as there aren't really a whole lot of women in the first place, and only 1.5 have any appreciable screentime. There's also no enby folks mentioned at all and everyone seems to be aggressively straight (although alien x human relationships seem to be moderately OK? so I guess baby steps).
I will say that the beginning of the book (like maybe the first 30%) does seem to have some interesting lore interactions which are never brought up again! But once the book hits about 40-50% the quality in terms of characters and plot goes downhill significantly, and the dialogue ramps up to very mind-numbing degrees. I felt like Charlie Brown being lectured to by adults.
The best thing I can say about this book was it was ok background noise for my botany/carpenter scrip farm, because I may have gone crazy listening to the zone music for 13 hours.
If you'd ill-advisedly want to read this for your own book bingo square, it does meet the criteria for Dreams, Prologue, and Survival (possibly also Eldritch Creatures, but they're more garden variety demons, zombies, etc).
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