Say Hello To Civil War
We live today in a world fraught too often with inaction and apathy, in politics, in nature, in human togetherness. The United States is on the brink of yet again voting for a sexual predator billionaire turned white supremacist, fascist mascot, chided somehow as the hero of the working man. The son has killed elephants and gets on the news without any knowledge of anything and also needs standing and ghost writer-hiring lessons. (If you are even considering this disgrace of a human to run the most powerful country on Earth, again, this newsletter is not for you, goodbye). Russia and China are stronger than ever, and much more sophisticated than the US in development of planning war games and national chess moves, except of course the right wingization of the Southern Hemisphere, where the Amazon (the jungle, not your stupidly easy shopping cart) is destroyed to provide $1.99 cheeseburgers to people most in need of healthcare but get angry when told they deserve it. Permafrost is thawing, and the SF Bay tech bros want to come to the rescue by selling data and turning it into wooly mammoth DNA in the most cockamamie scheme since nuking hurricanes to stop climate change. Bunkers for billionaires in New Zealand and Hawaii are popping up as fast as helicopters can knock down protesters under the last three US administrations (Obama, Trump, and Biden-oh my god I those two were liberal!) and their private security forces are hired straight from the brute force police corps-the seventh largest army in the world whose symbol is a flag the color of a bruise, black and blue. In this world, we have elected septa and octogenarians whose minds are falling out like a load of trash into a New Jersey landfill via New York, as they have used theirs up. Turtles, whales, sharks and every fish is in existential harm, Arctic moose livers are liquid from oil drilling, and the two largest bear species in the world are mating due to the extremities of climate into spotted, roaming, starved killers. Globalization due to the reckless use of shipping and the internet has brought economies closer together, and destroyed humanity in its wake. Continuing on this path is as clearly dangerous as following a vegan diet is healthy, but too many people refuse to give up flesh and muscle, and with it, rubber, steel, and petroleum. A small amount of fantasy novels use the idea of metal magic, and in the US, fantasy and romance are the largest genres, think about why-we need to escape this hellhole of a system. But that’s not even fantasy, the world runs on accumulating metals. Countries go to war and become strong by producing and using metals, hence THE BRONZE AGE. THE IRON AGE. And soon enough, the post-silicon age. Most people the world over are radically poor, cannot access clean water nor food, are bombed, raped, and laughed at by those of a ‘better’ culture. Look at Palestine and Israel. Look at the Native Americans. Africa. The Chinese immigrants setting up shop in a small, semi-rural town in America. There are laws of man which are constantly ignored by those who create them, and by those who know that they would die by following. The US grows enough wheat to feed the world, but instead we sell it to China to help produce soy sauce and fatten cows and pigs that have only known their stinking neighbors since their birth just a few months before to be slaughtered, packaged in plastic and thrown out at the end of the week. The difference between industrial farming and human living is growing smaller and smaller. Antibiotic resistance, genetically modified foods that we DO NOT understand the long term effects of, as they have not been around long enough to know, microplastics in every cell in every living thing now, even the American Amish and those tribes who will kill any outsider who gets too close are filled with plastic residue and forever chemicals. They (the tribes) know what they’re doing-globalization has led to the slaughter of not just humankind, but of all kind. Capitalism is an easy target, as is socialism and communism for those right wingers who can’t read a current map of Europe. Totalitarianism is the most corrupt and powerful force, in which every reigning country has been a ‘victim’ of. Julius Cesar. We’ve studied him so much he’s just a figurehead to be said, slapped on a pizza box for $4.99 in food deserts in the inner city. Every person involved in creating their own brand to become their own start-up/company/success is a customer, each platform they use for sales, distribution, reviews, customer appeal is owned by a suit who couldn’t care less about those under their Italian loafers, yet those of us just trying to make ends meet don’t have a real enough choice to follow anything else. It’s those same people in suits and loafers and Ferraris that complain the most about paying taxes that don’t affect them, that bitch that homeless people are making them uncomfortable when their own policies and directives are forcing people onto the streets to begin with. It’s this apathy that not only pulls people apart, but brings mass action, whether it be the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles and SF, or the freezing in their homes due to Texan pride of not sharing energy with neighboring states. Fires are burning the California and Oregon redwoods, but the only fires the fascists care about are the buildings burned by rioters because cops killed too many Black people that day. Too many swindlers in this world are celebrated, like Joel Osteen and Andrew Tate, and too many people trying to make the world a better place are denigrated on what are called ‘social’ platforms. Nurses and scientists are regularly told that the patient is the priority, but are never told they are also important, and if not for them, the patients would have no one. Stock owners and brokers are celebrated, the economy booms, and journalists are still too scared to call Jeffrey Epstein a pedophile, preferring the ever-popular ‘disgraced financier’, perhaps because their bosses are in the circle. So the world pretty much sucks, but if you can help someone out, please just do it, pay it forward, we only have ourselves here. And if you’re not depressed enough at this point, I have a novel for you showing the collapse of the American Empire. Cheers.
As the Second American Civil War wanes, Mary the Exoputian awaits her chance to contact the Folbulae—a highly advanced species of extraterrestrial, only to be hunted down by the dictator of the Sovereign States of America, Vladimir Booth.
With rising tides and thawing tundra, the Exoputians—a new species of human genetically created to live in Space and communicate with the Folbulae, land in the Republic of Texas following a missile strike on their space station. Mary and the other Exoputians learn of the lies their progenitor taught them, training the space-bred crew to use their novel communication to cure the planet they’d never set foot on. As Mary and the others road trip through racially segregated America, they encounter multiple attempts on their lives to follow through with their once-mission of saving the planet from the climate crisis.
Discover with Mary what’s worth saving on a planet prepared to destroy her entire species.
This novel debuts April 17 everywhere books are sold, and it will not be free. I am still working on uploading all the popular sites where it will be available, and the link will be updated, but here it is anyway: EXOPUTIANS - PREORDER NOW
Have a great day, wherever you live, however you can. I look forward to this novel so much, I hope you do too.
AJ