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Zatamon

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Hello,
I am an old man who fancies himself as a philosopher-writer, asking and exploring big questions of social existence.
By education, I am a retired Physicist, who discovered writing as a way to connect with people and ideas. Over the years, I self-published a poetry collection, a physics textbook, a short story collection and four sci-fi novels. I am doing it only for the enjoyment of writing and, occasionally, connecting with like-minded people who like to think and explore ideas. I hope I will find them here.
Cheers!
 
Hello and welcome, Zatamon, I think you will enjoy your time here, there are a lot of great discussions going on.

You might like to check out the Philosophy thread. We'd love to hear your ideas about things.

Louanne Learning

Thread 'The Philosophy Thread'

Science may ask the “how?” but philosophy asks the “why?” and the “should?”

And isn’t that what writing does?

Anyway, back to philosophy:

Why are we here?

Should we be good?

And so on…

It’s my personal opinion that we are all philosophers. We wonder and we ask questions, even the unanswerable ones, and come up with our own take on this existence.

I’ll start with my own personal philosophy:

Be good at what you do, and make sure your word is good.
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Looking forward to seeing you in the forums!
 
Madman Starryteller said:
Welcome, Zatamon!

Your sci-fi novels, were they each standalone or part of a series? Would you like to share a snippet of what they were about?

Hope you will like it here.
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Thank you for the welcome.
One was a standalone political thriller, the other three were parts of a trilogy I called "Time is Running out"
Here is a snippet from the back cover blurb:
"The first volume "House Arrest - A Story of Liberation" described how survivors in the Sacramento Valley, after a nuclear war, start to rebuild their lives and defeat a tyrannical government in the town of Sacramento. The second volume "Rainbow Valley - A Story of Choices" continues the saga by describing how six towns in the valley organize their lives according to different economic principles choosing a social organization that works for them. The third volume: "Valley of Hope - A Story of Consequences" talks about how consequences of past mistakes, like ignoring climate change, catch up with the folks in the Valley, threatening their survival. They have only one hope: find another planet where they can start with a clean slate. In the meantime, they have to hide in underground cities when life above ground becomes too dangerous. "

The snippet from the political thriller, again from the back cover:
The "Time Scope", is a Sci-Fi TV Set that can be tuned to any space and time coordinate and observe events, without sound, as they took place in the past. It has control buttons and dials for 'Power', 'Time', 'Space', 'Zoom', 'Speed', 'Scan' and 'Track'. It is used, among other things, by an American Senator to find out if his party's presidential nominee, a retired general is, in fact, a power-mad maniac with dictatorial ambitions. He wants to save his country from a rogue president who could cause immense harm to both the USA and to the rest of the world. This is the smallest of their problems, The bigger one spans the entire galaxy.
Madman Starryteller said:
Welcome, Zatamon!

Your sci-fi novels, were they each standalone or part of a series? Would you like to share a snippet of what they were about?

Hope you will like it here.
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