An action/adventure science-fictional Novel about contemporary economics and politics

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Horrified at what I believe to be unwholesome economic and political trends in our country, I wrote my novel, REMEDY: D.E.T.O.X.X. AMERICA, because I realized that novels have a far wider audience than scholarly journals or the college classrooms where I spent my professional career teaching philosophy. The novel is a vehicle for consideration of contemporary United States economics and politics, using the culture of an alien planet to highlight what seem to me to be unwholesome conditions in the United States, such as the present economic crises that are causing so much individual suffering and governmental concern.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

      The five action-packed days of the book center on the Living Wage Movement and our country‘s growing income disparities.  The Movement has organized a bus caravan from Iowa to a huge Labor Day rally in Washington, D.C.  The rally’s organizers plan to demonstrate support for raising the national minimum wage to a living wage and for detoxifying our economy and corporate power structures. Through ballot initiatives and legislative action, the LWM has already succeeded in raising the minimum wage in its Iowa hometown and in neighboring towns and states.  In doing so, it has had to contend with opposition from corporate power structures, most notably that of MegaSmartMart, the country’s retail superpower.  Factor in a sabotaged space station, the cutthroat clash of media empires, collapse of our country’s financial institutions, and intrusion of humanoid aliens  from the planet Pisces II.  Result: the didactic thrust of REMEDY: D.E.T.O.X.X. AMERICA is subordinate to a fast-paced, complex plot which tests the insight and capabilities of all its characters to save Washington and our country.
      My passion and hope is that the variety of voices addressing these issues and proposing alternatives might have a significant impact on the future direction of our country.  I would like my novel to be one of those voices.
      The novel may be purchased online at http://www.PublishAmerica.com, Barnes and Noble, Amazon, etc.  However, the novel is available right now at a less expensive price only at the PublishAmerica site.  See links to various sites below.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Can't wait to read this! What a timely topic. And a little bit of space mystery in among the Wall Street types, huh? Sounds just like my sort of thing.

DutchSally

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