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Previously I've written about my poetry and short story collections. Now I'd like to talk about my novel about a blue sun world.
I come from a German background and I know about *that history*. The German past is a heavy legacy.
For years, I wanted to write a novel about that history and those people as a way to deal with that legacy. But how to approach a topic that's so well-covered? I wanted to find my own personal angle.
After several drafts, more drafts, and meditations, I ended up writing the novel as a science fiction/fantasy/psychedelic fiction adventure in the structure of connected short stories.
The basics of the plot: a young woman investigates the shady past of her grandfather during that time. A strange twist of fate takes her to another galaxy where she finds people from that time living on an alien planet under a blue sun.
When people from that time in German history have to deal with a situation beyond their previous experiences, how will they respond? Will they change? Will the cling to their old belief system? Will they improve themselves? Or will they backslide into their old ways?
The indigenous culture of this planet was psychedelic and shamanism-based. I explore their culture and history in the novel's sequel.
If psychedelic is my favorite Greek-root English language term, then my favorite German word is Vergangensheitbewältigung which means coming to terms with the past, specifically that past.
My novel is a psychedelic Vergangensheitbewältigung, a collection of trippy tales, in which those people are taken out of their usual place and time in history and compelled to take a look at their souls with solar vision.
I come from a German background and I know about *that history*. The German past is a heavy legacy.
For years, I wanted to write a novel about that history and those people as a way to deal with that legacy. But how to approach a topic that's so well-covered? I wanted to find my own personal angle.
After several drafts, more drafts, and meditations, I ended up writing the novel as a science fiction/fantasy/psychedelic fiction adventure in the structure of connected short stories.
The basics of the plot: a young woman investigates the shady past of her grandfather during that time. A strange twist of fate takes her to another galaxy where she finds people from that time living on an alien planet under a blue sun.
When people from that time in German history have to deal with a situation beyond their previous experiences, how will they respond? Will they change? Will the cling to their old belief system? Will they improve themselves? Or will they backslide into their old ways?
The indigenous culture of this planet was psychedelic and shamanism-based. I explore their culture and history in the novel's sequel.
If psychedelic is my favorite Greek-root English language term, then my favorite German word is Vergangensheitbewältigung which means coming to terms with the past, specifically that past.
My novel is a psychedelic Vergangensheitbewältigung, a collection of trippy tales, in which those people are taken out of their usual place and time in history and compelled to take a look at their souls with solar vision.