I thought some of you might be wavering as to whether to take a chance on an Opher book – would it be worth the money? Would it be a good read?
Surprisingly I think they are brilliant. Green is one of my best. Why not give it a go? You might get completely hooked on my books. There is nothing like them.
Here’s the synopsis to whet your appetite.
GREEN – The Synopsis
So what is it like being blind? What colours can you be?
What thoughts go through your mind if you cannot hear, taste, feel or see?
Are you just a vegetable locked within a brain without awareness of the world, no thoughts to tie to words, no dreams to play with hope?
Are you green?
If no-one can really touch you, no person can get near, are you totally alone?
What universe do you inhabit inside those empty eyes? Is it the same universe as we do?
Elspin is born without a nervous system; a brain with no connection to the world. Locked within her dreams in an infinite universe of inner space. She should have withered into nothing but instead she grew. She explored a rich uncharted cosmology of thoughts while attached to a machine that she could never know existed. What were her dreams?
So what is reality?
Outside, in the ‘real’ world, the environmental crisis has worsened. The ‘Greens’ have splintered into warring factions, ‘Big Business’ remains complacent and the government arbitrates. Technology continues to progress and consumerism creates growth and economic stability as well as making people rich.
There are those environmentalists who believe that reasoning will win public opinion across and put pressure on the government to act, while others resort to the bomb. A radical group has the solution. They have liberated a virus that will remove humans from the equation and return the planet to nature so that it can heal.
They have to be stopped. They are hunted.
The ecological situation lurches into a crisis. Balances are upset and spiralling out of control. The government has to take action. Are they too late? Will people allow them to act?
And someone wants to contact Elspin, locked within her head. Can she be reached? What can she know? What would her reaction be?
Infinity is absolute. An infinite universe meets an infinite mind.
The book is a story set in the near future in a world not too different to our own. The technology is more advanced. The people are the same. The characters play their part in small affairs and large as passions flare, global issues are addressed and philosophies are explored.
The many threads intertwine on personal and universal fronts.
The questions have to be resolved. Is humanity doomed from virus, poisons or themselves? Is there a universe within? And what is the reality of a dream? Could there be a purpose?
Three hundred and thirty eight pages progress the tendrils of different lives touching, different views, ideologies and perspectives clashing. They paint the scenes, build the characters and progress the story. The last page brings the threads together.
The last sentence forces you to think.