Pulling the Dragon's Tail - Back Cover
Genres
Adventure, SciFi, Thriller/Horror
Tags
Atheism, Eco-terrorism, Eco-thriller, Global warming, Robotics, Semi-immortality, Transhumanism, Tsunami
Summary
While Nate Kristopher possesses a semi-immortal body thanks to the secretive Alpha Group longevity experiment, Earth’s society of 2059 faces a decidedly more dubious existence. Emerging from self-imposed exile, Nate is ready to save humanity from itself, as only he possesses key knowledge to prevent unabated global warming from abruptly transforming into a global ice age. Nate sets off, accompanied by his computer canine robot Dugan. However, a transhuman named Es and a psychiatrist named Campbell Devereaux--impose themselves as partners into Nate's quest. After discovering that several Alpha Group members have been murdered, Nate becomes the next target for this mysterious killer. He discovers that the serial killer comes from within the Alpha Group itself! Now he wonders if he can't trust the Alpha Group, can he even rely on the annoying in-your-face atheist Campbell Devereaux or the brusque, blunt soldier-warrior Es?
Writer’s Note
I am a clincial social worker in southwest Florida. I have always loved scifi and the novel is a product of that love.
Some of my favorite authors include Asimov, Clarke, Bova, Sheffield. I also love science in general,and the novel covers a lot of speculative territory in what may be scientific breakthroughs in the next half-century. Of course, I got into the "soft sciences" that is, psychology, because my hard science course work just couldn't pass muster. Working with hundreds of mental health and psychiatric clients over the past two decades has also been intriguing in terms of not only observing and working with individual conflicts but also in assessing just how drama is created between people, families, work units, churches, etc.
Pulling the Dragon's Tail includes many themes and conflicts. These include a religious mind-set vs atheism, a secret experiment that created semi-immortals vs what they will inflict for good or bad upon the unsuspecting world of normally aging humans, unabated global warming vs what is predicted to occur because it hasn't been stopped, humans vs robotics and advanced computers, humans vs transhumans (a real current movement).