Fly
Twice Backward
by
David S. McCracken
Genre:
Alternate History, SciFi
You
wake back in early adolescence, adult memories intact, including ones
that could make you very wealthy now. Your birth family is here,
alive again, but your later families are gone, perhaps forever. What
has happened, what should you do about coming problems like violence,
ignorance, pollution, and global warming? You realize one key
connects most, the fundamentalist strains of the major religions
disdaining science, equality, and social welfare. You see that there
are some things you can change, some you can’t, and one you don’t
dare to.
Fellow
idealists help you spend your growing fortune well--such as an
artistic Zoroastrian prince in the Iranian oil industry, a rising
officer in the Soviet army working to find a way to destroy his
corrupt government, a Bahai woman struggling against Islamic
brutality, a Peruvian leader working for a liberal future, and a
snake-handling Christian minister, grappling with doubts, sexuality,
and destiny. They are supported by an ally who develops essential
psychic powers. The group faces familiar-looking corrupt politicians,
religious leaders, and corporate czars, but there is an ancient force
in the background, promoting greed, violence, hate, and fear.
This
exciting, emotional, thoughtful, humorous, and even romantic sci-fi
novel weaves progressivism, music, movies, and literature into a
struggle spanning the globe. Vivid characters propel the action back
up through an alternative history toward an uncertain destination.
David
McCracken was born in Louisville, KY, in 1940. Raised mostly in
Winchester, KY, he now lives in Northern Virginia, with his third and
final wife. He has three children, two stepchildren, and six
grandchildren.
After
three years in the U.S. Navy following a lackluster academic start,
he graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1963, in Diplomacy
and International Commerce. He then worked as a Latin American
country desk officer in the U.S. Department of Commerce until he
returned to school to earn an M.A. in Elementary Education in 1970
from Murray State University, having always been intending to teach.
Eventually realizing his children qualified for reduced-price lunches
based on his own teaching salary, he studied computer programming at
Northern Virginia Community College and worked as a programmer until
shifting back into elementary teaching.
He
began working on what became Fly Twice Backward in 1983 and finally
finished it in 2019! At 79, David strongly doubts he'll be doing
another novel of such scope and complexity, but is preparing to work
on a children's science fiction novel with a progressive bent, being
a devout progressive in politics and religion, as well as a lover of
learning.
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