An avid reader, writer & Wolf/Pibull Advocate. Proud Cherokee & Scottish lass!
After some recent discussions, I felt the need to post this to the project page and send it as an update.
What this Book is NOT:
First, this is not a book meant to answer all the questions. This world the story takes place in is a complicated place where everything has changed owing to the cataclysmic event. As a result, everything you know about society, religion, politics, genders, gender roles, and much more has changed. Second, this book is not "women can’t go on without men." Having lived for 500 years without them, clearly they can. This book is an exploration of that idea: what would it be like if you take the most basic form of diversity and remove it? And then what might happen if you reintroduce it? How would society react? Third, this is not an anti-feminist diatribe. It is also not a Complementarian manifesto. The idea here is NOT to declare one gender is better than the other, or that they can only exist together if they exist in a specific mold. The idea behind it is to explore what would happen if such an event were to occur, not pass judgment on you or anyone else for how they view or believe on this subject. Finally, this book is not going to tell you what to believe or accept about it. This will have a lot of ambiguity in it ON PURPOSE. This is not to avoid conflict, but to avoid "leading the witness." The narrative is going to have a lot of opportunities to make small and big statements throughout. Places where we can hit you right in the face with something just because we want to. We won’t be doing that. The idea here is to create a setting where all of these preconceived notions we carry into our interactions with each other have all fundamentally been altered or vanished. We all are going to approach this story with differing world views and beliefs. That is fine. The goal of this story is to take you as you are and, on the other end, leave you where you choose to be after contemplating the ideas and possibilities herein.
Prologue
Regrets are the instruments by which we learn. We tend not to repeat those things we regret. A remorse, I think, is a much deeper thing. I tend not to dwell on regrets. For all the pain they’ve caused me, they have allowed me to grow and become a better man, sometimes despite myself. I regret how I treated my first love, but it taught me how to better live with my wife. I regret not working very hard in school, but now I know to apply myself in my work. I feel bad about the thin. . .
Prologue
Regrets are the instruments by which we learn. We tend not to repeat those things we regret. A remorse, I think, is a much deeper thing. I tend not to dwell on regrets. For all the pain they’ve caused me, they have allowed me to grow and become a better man, sometimes despite myself. I regret how I treated my first love, but it taught me how to better live with my wife. I regret not working very hard in school, but now I know to apply myself in my work. I feel bad about the thin. . .
Prologue
1968
Tubes and wires snaked their way from the patient’s body, disappearing into machines whose purpose the average person couldn’t understand. The steady thump hiss from the ventilator kept the man on the table alive. Could he still be considered a man? The jury remained out on that question.
The sickly green tiles covering the walls gave the room an insane asylum feel. They traveled down to the floor and crawled across its surface. A single drain rested in the c. . .
Prologue
1968
Tubes and wires snaked their way from the patient’s body, disappearing into machines whose purpose the average person couldn’t understand. The steady thump hiss from the ventilator kept the man on the table alive. Could he still be considered a man? The jury remained out on that question.
The sickly green tiles covering the walls gave the room an insane asylum feel. They traveled down to the floor and crawled across its surface. A single drain rested in the c. . .
Wow, this book really impressed me. You can tell straight away that the Author has a talent for writing. Great opening to the story. It’s hard to imagine something as simple as paper and pencils being such a rare commodity. When I read a book I want to be taken away to a completely different world, and this Author has achieved this for me. There were moments in the story that tear at your soul, like having one of your family members get sick with the plague, and then to be taken away so you never see them again. A stand-out for me is the detail the Author has put into each of the characters, and how very unique some of them are. This story does have you thinking, if our world did come close to the brink of destruction, what would be left, how would we live. Brian Guthrie has certainly taken me on quite a journey, and there aren’t enough words to describe how much I enjoyed this book. This is a must read.