Saguaro En Troupé: STORY TIME
First Edition, September 2024 (Cover change October 2024)

Back cover blurb:

Long after the monopole caused ‘The Shift’, GreyDevil, the shamanic leader of Earth’s restoration effort, knows the future is uncertain.

Even though dystopia had been averted, the restoration is struggling: Earth’s cores are unstable, genetics and material properties issues persist, natural beauty is lost, numerous mammals are missing, and access to the other two dimensions is limited.

Important questions arise in this state of affairs, such as whether GreyDevils should continue their lineage, and how humans can coexist and become co-stewards of the planet alongside the Desert Entities that control the boundaries between order and chaos, reality and fantasy.

In ‘Story Time’, follow the GreyDevil succession process in the year 3679. As the journey unfolds, unexpected events occur that require new plans to be set into motion. One may even lead to a redefinition of what it means to be human.

Amazon Page Description:

Saguaro En Troupé: Story Time is a futuristic tale that builds and then extends an underlying fabric contrasting various cultural and intellectual differences between our age’s Modern and Postmodern periods. Philosophical incursions into the precepts and fallacies of logic are interwoven, with some of Kant’s aesthetics embraced but questioned. The unique outcome is then sprinkled with a novel metaphysical branch of predictive mathematics, new sciences, and engineering solutions to coalesce it all—quite a recipe.

But not to fret, for this is entertainment and not a dry scholarly paper. In short order, you’re up to speed and catapulted toward personifying the collective consciousness of generations of leaders tasked with restoring Earth to a semblance of normalcy long after a catastrophic event, with the incumbent acting as your mentor. Though you’re trained and psychologically tweaked for success, there are no guarantees. Given such, the journey commences. 

Yet why attempt such a thing when you know no self-doubt can remain, perfect execution is expected, some will oppose you, and success depends on factors that are unsolvable by sheer willpower alone? Because, like all similar succession candidates, a seed was once planted in your mind that provided a glimpse of what lies beyond cognition, toward which you’re inexplicably drawn.

If you succeed, alliances with enigmatic ‘Desert Entities’—many of old-Earth’s animals—and ‘various Spiritual Beings’ will enable you to transit the realms of parallel dimensions at will, know what carries us all, and be the sole human contributor to a master plan; a precursor of what’s to come. If you fail, memories will be erased.

Fortunately, others are in the queue…