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Ideal Freedom (new ebook from indy author)
- 30 November 1999
- Drake Levinson
This political and religious science fiction novel covers some of the most debatable issues of the past 600 years that have and still plague a modern parallel society where one man, Brian, is caught in the middle with a chance to make a difference. He has a limited amount of time due to being infected with a cancerous dark matter no doctor can treat. For fear of being treated like a lab rat and experimented upon, he keeps it to himself. Feelings of isolation are prevalent, but unattainable in the traditional aspects.
Parallel realities and paradox theories are useless as conspiracy theories in a court of law, but still wreak their own forms of havoc in ways no astrophysicist or Southern Baptist preacher could have ever deduced. Politics and Science run rampantly out of control at a cost forced upon the lower 80 percent. The working class is socially forced to pay for these atrocities and then lied to in order for the rich and powerful to play their ridiculous games in a Holy War that aids in giving birth to a plague with a conscious. There are more than two sides to this story. The evolving Muslim and Christian based Political and Religious conflicts are blinded by their own ignorance throughout the ages and refuse to see the threat that lies in between. In the middle is a great evil that makes up everyone, from every religion, alongside a menace that has no heart, no soul, no pity, no hope and no existence... until now.
Just when life was about to go completely down the toilet for Brian, his mind and body are ripped into a million pieces and thrown elsewhere in time and space, more than once, and sometimes by his own direction. Unfortunately, something else came through. It tasted his cancer and the lives infected by it. This conscious plague was partially human one time, a Muslim, a Catholic, a Saint, a terrorist, an agent, a politician, a father, a child, but regardless of its form, it was always a dark matter. Purgatory is an ambiguous and mislabeled understatement for this cancerous dark matter. Like damnation, it is indestructible. Rules of engagement and interference are riddled with lies and deceit in this epic that covers 2000 years of time and space. Some parts of which are close to our own realities, while others become undesirable consequences from tampering with things any omniscient being parading through the universe like a cosmic Billy Burke would never wave a magic wand towards.
Word Count is roughly 243,000 words.
A friend of mine finally convinced me to get a facebook page. If you are a science fiction writer, please friend me.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002416651161 (Drake's Profile Page)
Here is the kindle link.
Here are three sites to download the standard epub version that passes epubcheck 1.1 and 1.2
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