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 GIRARD ("JERRY") TWILLINGER is a 22nd Century Gulliver. Like the
hero of Swift’s satirical classic, he unexpectedly
finds himself visiting a country of unusual little people
-- The Zini. Forty thousand years traveling time from
their home planet, these Zini have lived quietly hidden
from human awareness for a long time, just beyond the
orbit of Mars, in a habitat that outwardly resembles the
neighboring asteroids. When Jerry discovers their
"counterplanet" by accident, he begins a voyage
of discovery, which is usually suspenseful, while
increasingly thought provoking, and often hilarious.
Although Zini society is millions of years old, its
people are enough like us that they are obliged to keep
themselves under control by a multi-layered system of
checks and balances. Jerry comes to understand this
system through a lengthy step by step process as he
stubbornly seeks to prove that humans, too, are capable
of being civilized! Only when he finally understands the
society in its full complexity does Jerry discover that
the underlying premise conditioning his voyage has been a
well-hidden philosophy of "friendly persuasion"
-- the classic method of Quakers. Since 1811 the publisher, Ebor
Press, has made a specialty of Quaker topics. This is
Ebor’s first Science Fiction novel. |
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