Conexion – One of the major themes – Lust for power.

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Conexion – One of the major themes – Lust for power.

Conexion

A novel consists of many themes. Conexion had a number of these. One was the theme concerning the drug connexion. Another was the detection of three objects/asteroids heading on a collision course with Earth. The third theme was concerning power.

We see that playing out all around us. Leaders such as Trump, Johnson and Bolsonaro are consumed by gaining and exerting power. Everything is about votes. But behind these figureheads are the real, unseen powerbrokers. They are the seat of power and have, through generation after generation, exerted their influence to create the world how they want it to be. Their wealth and influence are used to bolster the leaders and parties they want in power as well as to manipulate the policies of their chosen people.

It was interesting for me to illustrate this element of politics.

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Farm 703 – The Human Project – tackling the problems.

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Farm 703 – The Human Project – tackling the problems.

Farm 703 – The Human Project

The idea for this novel had been around for a long time lurking in the recesses of my cerebral folds. It started when I read an article that stated that nine cells out of every ten in a healthy human were bacterial it sparked thoughts flowing. What if we were really being farmed by bacteria? What if they actually controlled us?

There were many problems that prevented from putting together a story. To start with, bacteria only live for a matter of seconds before they divide into two. That made continuity an obstacle. Then there were the problems of intelligence, communication, transport, personality and a hundred more.

But, I’m a scientist. I like solving problems.

The idea came to me that when the bacteria divided they could produce a primary and secondary bacterium. I had my continuity. After that, communication was easy but transport was much harder but I found a way, which left me with two major elements that were required to create a novel: could I give my bacteria a personality and make them into real people? And, could I create a storyline that was interesting?

You’ll have to judge on those two.

So welcome to Farm 703 – a planet farmed by bacteria; a farm where all the animals and plants have been cultivated by bacteria to provide homes and food for bacteria; a farm which ‘Head Office’ is monitoring production closely and is ruthless; a farm where the farm manager is experimenting with an intelligent lifeform; a farm where the surrogate manager is actively undermining the success of the farm for her own selfish reasons.

Welcome to Farm 703 – better known as Earth.

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Schizoid – A few words of explanation.

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Schizoid – A few words of explanation.

Schizoid

The idea of producing a series of books based around a set of characters has never inspired me. I tend to be intrigued by ideas. For me the ideas come first and then I invent the characters to tell the story.

Only twice have I produced a sequel. The first was with God’s Bolt, which spawned the novel Reawakening. This is the second occasion.

The initial book, Quantum Fever, told the story of a Quship Captain, the discovery of a dead planet (which happened to be Earth) and a rebellion against the extreme capitalist regime.

After I had completed the novel I kept wondering how the three scenarios I had created would actually develop. I had the System (hundreds of planets), with its corrupt politicians and Big Business and tight control of a narcotised population, a planet of aliens (us) and a planet of dissidents. I wondered how they might all interact, and gradually a story formed in my head.

Although it is a sequel it is set three hundred years after Quantum Fever, consequently, none of the original characters were still alive, so I created some of the new ones as descendants of those in QF. They had similar traits.

Schizoid enabled me to develop the ideas of how life might be in the three totally different scenarios and how they would impact on each other. It provided a dynamic so that I could create tension and intrigue that made the plot interesting.

Once again I was able to indulge in my interest in the environment, psychology, sociology and greed and apply the ideas in novel situations.

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God’s Bolt and Reawakening – the Character Helen Southcote.

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God’s Bolt and Reawakening – the Character Helen Southcote.

God’s Bolt

The initial idea was to attempt to write a novel with just one character. The character, my heroine, was Helen Southcote.

I had to have a setting for her to be stranded on her own and so I chose the Space Station. This was the future and the world had been brought back from the brink of environmental disaster. The population had been reduced to four billion and nature, conserved in huge swathes of pristine habitat, now thrived.

Helen was raised in the countryside is what had been England. She ran wild with her two brothers and developed a love of nature. Her parents were extremely gifted. Her father being a biologist working for the food agency and her mother a biochemist who worked from her laboratory at home legally creating recreational drugs.

Helen was a vibrant, inquisitive girl. I based a lot of her early experiences on my own childhood. The caterpillars, snakes and wildlife were my experiences. The competition with her brothers and her dare-devil tree-climbing was my daughter.

I made her compassionate, highly intelligent, studious, a completer-finisher and problem-solver, but with a reckless, fun-loving nature. She was very able and obsessively hard-working but also knew how to party. She was sexually active (necessary as part of the plot) and indulged in the psychoactive drugs her mother produced (all safe and legal). Her personality was warm and extrovert. She fell in love easily and developed close relationships with all sexes and ages. She was very gregarious.

Helen was a communicator, exceedingly self-confident and charismatic, able to charm a large audience in a symposium or perform successfully within a small team.

Instead of becoming a biologist, as might have been predicted from her early life, she was turned on to Physics by one of those inspiring teachers that turn up to change the course of one’s life. She became interested in the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Carl Sagan became her hero. It was through this that she entered into a career in SETI – the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. That is what had taken her to the Space Station.

At the time of the destruction of the Earth Helen was still a young girl. She found herself alone, the last surviving human being. I wanted to examine how such a terrible event and horrendous future, with its certainty of being completely alone, with no purpose in sight, might impact on the psychology of such a person.

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Try taking a look at the Ron Forsythe website! Cheer me up!

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The Ron Forsythe website is up and running. You can browse my Sci-Fi books with easy purchase.

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Green – A Sci-Fi novel – The character Elspin Murkedly.

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Green – The character Elspin Murkedly.

Green

This character was formed out of the central philosophical idea of the book. What is reality? I was obsessed with both reality and infinity. It led me to reading up a lot of psychology and astrophysics.

I wondered if the universe inside one’s head is infinite, as infinite as the world outside.

I wondered if that world of imagination was real.

I wondered what reality would be like if there was no connection to the outside reality.

I created Elspin Murkedly. I placed her in the future. She was conceived on a fabulous planet but a fault with the hyperdrive on the return journey created a major catastrophe in the developing embryo that would become Elspin. While her central nervous system developed her peripheral nervous failed. She was incredibly intelligent but that well-developed brain was not connected to any sensory apparatus. She had no knowledge of the outside world, what we call reality. Her reality was in her head.

Elspin was kept alive on a life support machine. To the outside world, she was lifeless but inside she had a vibrant life in a colourful internal universe. The trick was to make her a real person even though she could not interact with people or the world outside, she still had to have a personality. Elspin moved in a world of vibrant colours – and she was green.

I enjoyed writing about that world. I used a poetic style. I also enjoyed giving her a personality. Elspin is playful, inquisitive and contented. Elspin was the entire reason for this story. I built everything else around her. She came to life. One of the plots involved the care and love of her mother. Could she be contacted? What would happen?

Interestingly, the subplots also came to life. Outside, in reality, there was a world of strife and catastrophe.

Who would prevail?

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Ron Forsythe Science Fiction Writer – Showcase website.

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My new website and blog – Ron Forsythe Science Fiction Writer – is now active. It highlights the best of my Science Fiction books – all released under the pen name Ron Forsythe.

I am hoping that you will all support me in my new venture.

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Quantum Fever – Some of the ideas that went into the novel.

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Quantum Fever – Some of the ideas

Quantum Fever

I find it interesting to look at issues that are affecting society at this moment in time, progress them into the future and exaggerate them. The background themes were thus runaway capitalism, environmentalism, overpopulation, control of that population and the greedy elite who control it all.

This future society consists of a system of many planets, all heavily populated with people living in tiny ‘doms’, arranged in layer upon layer over the whole surface of the planets, fed with drugs and consuming immersive programming.

In order for this enormous population to be maintained and supplied with their basic needs (air, water and food) there is a constant need for new resources. Planets are plundered.

Big business run a number of Quships, spacecraft that jump through quantum space to discover other planets to plunder. This is a dangerous business. Jumping quantum space can prove dangerous to the human mind. People suffer a type of madness that is widely known as quantum fever.

This story is based upon one of those Quships and its discovery of a strange planet, a planet that had evidence of an extinct intelligent civilisation.

The intrigue that follows is based around the corruption and greed of big business and politicians, the nature of this alien culture and its resurrection, and a dissident group who wanted a more natural lifestyle.

Was the Quship captain suffering from quantum fever? Or was she being microcontrolled by her employers?

It proved a fertile arena for creating characters and moving them through these scenarios.

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New Eden – some of the ideas in this Sci-fi novel.

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New Eden – some of the ideas

New Eden

At the time I wrote this novel, back in the 1980’s, Ebola was first hitting the news. Thankfully the outbreaks of Ebola have all been contained and we have never had to deal with a global pandemic. Ebola would have been a worse challenge than Covid 19.

Back then I was seeing two things occurring in the world. The overpopulation problem was creating a huge environmental impact, a lot of pollution, overcrowded cities and deforestation. At the same time automation and technology was replacing the need for a large workforce.

As far as politicians were concerned we were creating a surplus population who were unemployable. The solution was to remove that surplus.

A tyrannical government decided on a plan of action. They would develop a virus, based on Ebola, that was 100% fatal, develop a vaccine and, as part of their annual vaccination programme, vaccinate all the people they wanted to survive. It was eugenics in full operation. Not only would they rid themselves of surplus population, but they could remove all opposition and anyone they did not deem fit.

As with most plans, things do not work out as intended.

With the passing of time, the burgeoning population and the advent of A/I, the tenets of the novel were even more pertinent. I originally had released the book as Ebola in the Garden of Eden. I re-edited it and reissued it as New Eden.

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The other central theme in the Sci-Fi novel Green

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The other central theme in the novel Green

Green

The future world I was describing in the novel Green was in the midst of an environmental crisis. Nature had been virtually destroyed and pollution was rife. Big Business ran the show for profit.

The result was a movement of environmentalists totally opposed to the way the world had been run for profit at the expense of all other life. They were the Green Movement.

The Green movement were not unified. They were split into three factions.

The first faction, the mainstream movement, still believed that they reason with the ruling group, gain public support, and force positive change.

The second faction believed that reasoning with the politicians was not possible. All that the ruling class cared about was power and that Big Business pulled the strings, and all they cared about was profit. This faction believed that the only way to promote positive change was to force the politicians and industry to change. They ran a campaign of terror and sabotage.

The third faction was the most cynical of all. They believed that it was impossible for people to change, that there was a genetic flaw in human nature and we, as a species, were irredeemable. The only answer was to remove humans from the equation altogether and allow nature to evolve back into a better state.

The third faction were actively colluding to release a virus to wipe out mankind.

This provided the dramatic backdrop as the two main stories interweaved.

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