People write fiction because they like to tell stories. Or because they enjoy creating whole worlds out of words. Others plumb the depths of the human psyche through their fictional characters. Ed Miracle writes as a means to explore the social and emotional impacts of certain ideas–specifically, those with the power to transform our lives. Ed’s forthcoming novel FREEMAKER is a near-future, sociological exploration of what it would mean if matter and energy were easily interchanged, through a new technology based on Albert Einstein’s E=mc2.
When a pious madman incinerates Philip Machen’s family, the young genius swears to create a perfect revenge–not to dispatch the killer, but to nullify his victory. Philip plans to reverse the sanctimony that abets “righteous” murder, by dethroning the world’s power elites. Secretly, he unleashes a subversive new technology. Will his machines bring universal wealth and liberty, as he claims, or will they plunge the world into chaos, pitting Tories against Freemakers? Ordinary citizens–including a young pilot, his alcoholic father, and an FBI agent–must decide. When they pursue Philip to the summit of Devil’s Mountain, these men face each other over drawn guns. To their horror, they discover their deepest hopes and fears now hinge on hair-trigger impulses: kill Philip Machen; defend him to the death; or shoot the man you love most, to keep his side from winning.
Ed is a former nuclear submariner, a university graduate and a retired computer systems specialist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He writes six days a week, and hopes to find a publisher this year for FREEMAKER.
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- Website: www.edmiracle.com