I’m not sure I like the cover notes anymore. I don’t think they capture the book. I might redo them. But anyway – here they are:
The 1960s was a decade of great change. There was social upheaval and a generational split which is unparalleled. It is characterised by a naïve idealism, euphoria and optimism in the young and a reactionary conservatism in the old. Those who are familiar with the 1960s will recognise the time of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, the Beatles, Stones, Jefferson Airplane, David Bowie, Captain Beefheart, Cream, Doors, Who, Joni Mitchell, CSN, Grateful Dead, John Lennon, Joan Baez, Roy Harper, Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Neil Young, Country Joe and Bob Dylan and others as Rock Music played a major role in unifying Youth and reflecting the social changes manifesting themselves in society. This was the time of the 1960s Counter-Culture with its Underground Press (IT, Rolling Stone and OZ), Fun, Freaks, Acid Rock, the Black Panthers with Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, George Jackson and Angela Davies, Sex, Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights March on Washington, the Grosvenor Square anti-Vietnam War March, the Kent State Massacre, Hedonism, Paisley patterns, People’s Park, Merry Pranksters, the Assassination of the Kennedy’s, Medgar Evans and Martin Luther King, Les Cousins, LSD, West Coast, Pot, Segregation, Festivals like Monterey, Woodstock and Altamont, Kaftans, the Tet Offensive, Napalm, Mods, Cambodia, LBJ and Nixon, Kissinger, Isle of Wight, the Yippies with Phil Ochs, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, the Oz trial, Radical Politics, the Poet Allen Ginsberg, Flares, Speed, Eastern Philosophy, Mao, the Fugs Levitation of the Pentagon, Middle Earth, Drug Busts, Psychedelia, Happenings, Hippies, Turn-on, Gathering of the Tribes, Street Theatre, Heavy Metal, the Cold War, the Roundhouse, Beads & Scarves, the Electric Cinema, the Draft, Acid Tests, J. Edgar Hoover, City Lights, San Francisco, Face Paint, LA, London, UFO, Hyde Park, Love and Peace, the H-bomb, Blues, Communism, Hell’s Angels, Long Hair, Tune-in, Sexual Liberation, the Pill, Black Power, Women’s Lib, Mini-skirts, Racism, Squats, Peace-signs, Ecology, Light Shows, Chicago riots, Sit-ins, Peace Marches, the Anti-segregation Marches, Bus Boycotts and Protests, the Klu Klux Klan, Gandalf’s Garden, Drop Out, The Olympic Games with Black power Salutes – Tommie Smith & John Carlos, the Lynchings, Bob Dylan’s Motorbike Accident, Albert Grossman, Elektra, Abbey Road, Electric Ladyland, Mississippi and the Murder of Chaney Goodman & Schwerner, Emmet Till, Detroit Riots, Greenwich Village, Student Rebellion, and then later Watergate and the end of the Vietnam War. Imagine all that mixed up and placed a hundred and fifty years into the future in an Intergalactic setting?
If you would like to have a read of this book or one of my other Sci-fi novels I have put some links below:
My best Sci-fi books in the USA:
Ebola in the Garden of Eden
Green
Starturn – Intergalactic Rockstar
Sorting The Future
My best Sci-fi books in the UK:
Ebola In The Garden Of Eden.
Sorting The Future
Green
Starturn – Intergalactic Rockstar