God Games- A New Book Cover and A Darkside

So, a few weeks ago I asked for your comments and suggestions to help decide on the official book cover for “Heaven’s Ant Farm.” Well, I got more than I bargained. I ended up ditching the original prototype cover AND I ended up changing the name of the book. I didn’t see that last one coming! Here’s the finished version of the winning new book cover developed by my UK illustrator, Jon Stubbington. As an…

HEAVEN’S ANT FARM- Yahweh and Gwendolyn

Here’s this just completed science fiction novel’s intro to two of the main characters- Yahweh and Gwendolyn Tabbris.  Comments welcomed! The setting is in Heaven- 3,127.3 years after the Holy Nuclear War. Warm waves of tall grass brush against a peach orchard and a green pasture that surround a large polygon-shaped home. Blue light streams out from the second-floor bathroom window and fades into the early morning sun. Inside the bathroom, a sleepy Professor Yahweh Tabbris…

Character Names

You observant ones and those in the know will by now realize the genesis for how I named the characters in Heaven’s Ant Farm.   That’s right, they are the angels associated with the great religions. The meanings are all salient in Heaven’s Ant Farm where science mixes with religion—just like this medieval picture of an angel in what looks like a spaceship. For instance in Heaven’s Ant Farm Abram, the villager who meets Yahweh in the…

What’s That Book About…Again??

At 34,527 feet somewhere over Greenland, I’m working on my 15 second elevator speech to have at the ready. I have always found it hard to describe what Heaven’s Ant Farm is about. There is so much to say and so little time to say it. And there is always the ever present danger of the dreaded “glaze effect.” You know, when the eyes of the afflicted takes on a frosty catatonic look as I dive…

Yahweh’s Sadness

Here is a summary of the fourth chapter from Heaven’s Ant Farm. Click here for a synopsis or click here to see the agent query letter for a brief description of this science fiction novel. Let me know what you think! Chapter 4- Yahweh’s Sadness Judge Jehoel, the senior elder of the Grand Council of Heaven summons Lucifer to explain himself. But Lucifer defies the high court. He accuses Heaven of breaking the Sixth Rule of Life by interfering…

Synopsis of Heaven’s Ant Farm

Here’s a summary of what’s going on in my SciFi novel Heaven’s Ant Farm. Three thousand years after the Holy Nuclear War nearly destroyed it, Heaven is a sunny and warm place, a place free and open to all. A place where devotion to science and technology has dethroned religion. It’s a place governed by just six rules. And the most important of these laws is the Sixth Rule of Life—thou shalt not interfere in other…

What is the Essense of Life?

In his web article, C. Terry Warner says that “agency refers both to the capacity of beings to act for themselves and their accountability for those actions.”  But what the heck are “beings?”  What gives rise to this self-awareness that is constantly challenged with choice and consequence? In “The Ant Farm,” the Deville character challenges Yahweh on his question.  But Yahweh and the society he lives in no longer believes the religious answer to this question.…