The five novels of "The Archives of Varok" listed on this web site have been in development for 35 years. The first in the series, "A Place Beyond Man" is available as an Authors Guild Backinprint.com Edition for all major book outlets. Its sequel "The Webs of Varok" will be released this fall by Penscript Publishing House. Others will follow in the next few years. All model steady-state economics and complexity issues and deal with the place of Homo sapiens in the larger universe--how we might deal with intelligent life nearby. The setting is an alternate solar system that includes Earth of the 21st century and two other planets orbiting "our" sun, inhabited by a delightful set of species too challenging and living too close to be ignored.
See the books' concepts and excerpts here.
Rediscovering Animals
An Oz For Our Time
No-growth Economics
Herman Daly defines a steady state economy as "an economy with constant stocks of people and artifacts, maintained at some desired, sufficient levels by low rates of maintenance throughput, that is, by the lowest feasible flows of matter and energy from the first stage of production to the last stage of consumption."
(from CASSE's website steadystate.org)
In "The Webs of Varok" (second book in the "Archives of Varok," I have woven the features of Varok's steady-state economy into the setting. It is disrupted by the villainess MAHNTIK in ways that were "business-as-usual" on Earth in the 20th century. The ellls and varoks, with the help of the human heroine TANDRA, must find ways to re-build the no-growth economy in the hopes that Varok can provide a sustainable model for Earth to follow.
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