Volume V is an intense, gritty love story set in the North Country, post-apocalyptic America circa 3000. The sequel to Volume IV, it also profiles the continuing degeneration of Aelitan society on Mars and the uncanny similarities between it and the faltering Global United on Earth.
In the North Country, we meet poet/warrior John “Seneca” Wallace when he is only fourteen years old, growing up in Paonia, Colorado, fishing for trout and learning the martial arts in his spare time, completely unaware of his remarkable destiny. And we explore the career of Ximena Ferraya, from naive college student in Sri Lanka to the politically savvy President of Global United.
We also encounter Allwyn Mai-Her as a teenager on Mars, the cloned, irascible, transgender genius whose biting insights into the degrading condition of Aelitan society are apposite to its regeneration. And we follow the singular life of Jen-na Soulstar, Avatar, from childhood to adulthood, expressing powers and ideas that will challenge our understanding of the universe.
The ASTRAL IMPERATIVE & Other Novels by Robert Dresner
