Property of Nature Blurb

An impending death star threatens the Earth with an existential crisis. The human race attempts to migrate Earth’s ecosystems to a nearby solar system aboard an interstellar ark called “Humanity.” Moja, an ecogeneticist of Pandoran brilliance, genetically engineers the ark’s crew and inhabitants to survive the long voyage. Shida, a psychopathic entrepreneur, uses the mission as an opportunity to conduct illegal genetic experiments on behalf of the Nature Development Company outside the constraints of legal oversight for competitive advantage and new product lines.

The ecogenetic battle between Moja and Shida starts in Africa’s last remaining wild park, continues in the politics and economics of the launch of the “Humanity,” and plays out in the void of interstellar space. The genetically engineered people called Kijani led by Huru, genetically engineered elephants called Tembo led by Wingu, and hivemind robots called Guardians are the unwitting pawns of the battle aboard the ark. They fight for their right to live and become defined by more than the dreams and the aspirations of Moja and humanity, and the greed and ambition of Shida and the Nature Development company.

PROPERTY OF NATURE is an evolutionary tale that transcends time, space, biology, sentience, and morality in a battle of biblical proportions.

PROPERTY OF NATURE is complete at 90,000 words. The manuscript is available at https://www.blurb.com/b/9896405-property-of-nature.

author.mike.angel@gmail.com

Bluffdale: A Case Study on the Dangers of Human Intimacy – Blurb

Ophelia Banks, a brilliant yet uncredentialed junior level tester, lies to her supervisor about the purpose of a personal check. The lie escalates from the check to the creation of a fictitious online NGO, to the NGO’s presence in a fictitious country with a fictitious population, to the fictitious country’s integration with both Yotta.com, the world’s largest online corporation, and the Agency facility in Bluffdale, Utah. The fictitious country emerges from the political toil of Kazakhstan, falling ever deeper into the geopolitics and economy of the real world. The forces that fuel the illusion grows beyond Ophelia’s ability to control it.

The online country satisfies the addictive needs for attention, intimacy, social connection, curiosity, greed, power, information, and truth of the characters unknowingly caught in the web of deceit. The collapse of the fictitious country and the genocide of its fictitious people expose the vulnerability of each character’s online addictions, resulting in real and dire consequences for the characters and all of online society.

BLUFFDALE is complete at 92,000 words. The book is available at https://www.blurb.com/b/9896419-bluffdale.

author.mike.angel@gmail.com