The Skidian Chronicles by Keith Fenwick (#1-5)
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Overview: Keith Fenwick (1962) was born in a small rural town in the middle of nowhere and grew up in and around Hamilton, New Zealand. Many people would say this background endows a natural challenge for any young man making is way in the world. However, Keith prefers to believe the disadvantages of his early life and adolescence have been wonderful preparation for dealing with adversity and ambiguity in his adult life.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
1. Skid
Skid is an imaginative science fiction novel of considerable skill that pokes fun at all forms of political correctness, while also indicating there are dangerous signs of a disintegrating world that is not adequately taken care of. The plot addresses some serious themes, touching on issues as wide as the survival of any planet in the universe – from pollution, to the exploitation of natural resources – the pros and cons of collective versus individual action – organic versus synthetic food – survival with humour versus the alienating aspects of a form of political correctness.
“We thank you, almighty, for this harvest,” Inel chanted, not for the first time wondering what the words really meant, for on this planet he was the almighty.
It was a tedious duty but the single most significant act of his rule – the annual tasting of the plant. The origins of the elaborate ceremony were long forgotten, as was the reason the ceremony was enacted year after year without deviating from the ancient script.
Whatever the case, it seemed best to carry on regardless. It was a case of continuing a tradition for tradition’s sake, without question, for to question the need for the ceremony, even in this age of enlightenment, was to question all the noble traditions of Skid, the very reason for there being a Skidian society at all. And that wouldn’t do.
Despite the tremendous significance of the service there wasn’t much to it really. Trying not to tumble head first into the bubbling liquid below the platform on which he stood, Inel dipped an exquisitely carved, long-handled ladle into one of the vast, open vats where the planet’s synthofood was produced. After much chanting and exaggerated gesturing he tasted some of the latest batch. It was considered a propitious sign if he did not keel over on the spot.
2. The Second Coming
The second novel deals with the aftermath of the breakdown in food supplies and the resulting famine which almost brings the most sophisticated and powerful civilization in the known universe to its knees. The key offworld characters have returned to earth and Skid is slowly recovering from the disaster that not for the first time has all but destroyed the most powerful and sophisticated civilization in the known universe. But all is not lost and not all is as it seems and there are other forces at work.
3. The Lifeboat
An asteroid is on a collision course with earth. It soon transpires the asteroid has been sent on its way by the Skidian first people who have uploaded themselves to a celestial version of the cloud and now define themselves as Transcendents. The Transcendents have a plan for humanity which doesn’t include an asteroid strike killing us all off.
4. The Colonists
The MFY program is now sending astronauts on a one-way trip to Mars funded by a reality television show documenting their every move. The few people who begin to question how an organisation starting life as a Ponzi scheme could suddenly develop the capability to send people into space and develop a settlement in the harsh Martian environment find themselves transported to the other side of the galaxy to a very different world.
Ultimately, the MFY program is a front for a project initiated by the Transcendents who inhabit a galactic version of the cloud to supply human bodies to meet their species continuity requirements. Sometimes the Transcendents decide to cut their own track which threatens to derail the entire project.
5. The Island
With the assistance of a group of aliens known as the Multiplicity Bruce Harwood has become the benevolent emperor of all the world’s man has expanded to.
The aliens are from the planet Skid who left their physical bodies behind and transcended to a futuristic version of the cloud several thousand years ago. The Transcendents who still have an interest in their home planet have developed into a hive mind and call themselves the Multiplicity.
As a payoff for Harwood helping them out of a tight spot, the Multiplicity has supported Harwood’s quest to establish a new world order on planet Earth. An enormous cultural shift is underway. However, it will take some time to embed a fairer and more decent socio-economic model into the global human psyche, where the need to work for a living is a thing of the past.
Harwood is a notorious micromanager so to prevent him from sticking his nose in where it isn’t wanted and derailing the process, Harwood is encouraged to take some time out. He and his family, accompanied by a few friends depart on a sabbatical, leaving the B team in charge.
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