Cary Neeper--Writings© 2002-2012 Carolyn A. Neeper
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LITERARY SCIENCE FICTION--The Archives of Varok
Dr. Jean Bolen (author of Goddesses in Every Woman) calls this story "…a perfect metaphor of Jungian individuation." Now back in print in POD version as an Authors Guild Backinprint.com Edition. Originally published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1975; Millington, London, 1976; and Dell Publishing Co., New York, 1977.
The 1990 updated version of "A Place Beyond Man."
80,803 words. Can two individuals, alien to each other, find a way to communicate before their species destroy each other in a clash of values?
Coming in 2012. 90,000 words.Disruption and re-instating of the steady-state on Varok serves as an example for Earth
96,302 words. Dangerous alien venture on a recovering Earth.
118,424 words. Exploration of self-actualization and theology on the aquatic world of ellls.
ESSAYS
No-growth economics depends on a stable population.
Anything we do could be amplified in the long run.
Complexity defines meaning for our lives, even if the long run cannot be predicted.
MYSTERY
A naive geologist attempts to help New Mexico control its oilfield wastes, but finds his efforts entangled in two murders and a supranational conspiracy.
MUSICALS
A thousand years from now a young woman with an identity crisis defends the personhood of her alien and animal friends, as humans tackle their most difficult challenge.
In this sci-fi musical melodrama set in 3002 CE, aliens and humans discover the danger of putting too much stock in occult symbols.
COMPLEXITY
Exploration of complexity, its indicators, embedded chaos, and value in human organization.
BOOK REVIEWS
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Welcome to my home on the web--the place where it all comes together-- the science fiction stories, an understanding of complex systems, and my passion for our most basic need--to achieve a steady state.Here, nearby, in this solar system, they are more like us than not. Some of the aliens are on this Earth, with their own language and way of being--the animals. Here we share a language of being, an outstretched hand and gentle sounds that tell us we share consciousness and respect, that our appetites need not rule every moment, that life can know life and give its fellows room to live. Here is a place where we stand in awe at the complexity of all there is-- where its unpredictable features, like chaos, signal opportunity, not defeat, and open our hearts to faith in meaning, Here everything we do, all that we touch, can build in tempo or gather new threads or open closed doors far into the future. Here we need not know how our lives impact moments and eons; We know that anything we do could be significant in the long run. Here is a place where peace is possible in our hearts and in our world, where overgrowth can cease and time can slow so that every moment can shine with being. Here we can share in equal parts, that all may treasure life and shed despair, Here science meets religion and knows what it cannot know so that faith can fire our soul with the knowledge of meaning, and we begin to understand why there is love and beauty. See Newsletter for news about the release of "A Place Beyond Man" as an Authors Guild Backinprint.com Edition, April 2011. Our new musical, "Petra and the Jay" (music by Alice B. Kellogg) will be produced by Opera Alta April 13 and 14, 2012, in Los Alamos, New Mexico, director Alicia solomon. It is now available as a dramatic character-driven version, a current issues version, and a coming of age version. Check out "The Oil Patch Project," a mystery co-written with Don Neeper in a setting of oil and gas regulation. You're invited to join the new saga and discussion "How The Hen House Turns--Thirty+ Years With Domestic Birds" on the Blog page. Other blogs focus on issues explored in my writings. To see excerpts from my novels (for people who like their aliens and unicorns challenging but accessible and their science fiction comfortably close to reality) click on My Writings on the Main Menu at the top of each page or click on the titles on the left column. Links to "Sermons" and "Complexity" contain complete works and information. Click on Bibliography for a list of books that have influenced my writings. Most are non-fiction written for non-scientists. The starred (*) books are especially recommended. Some listings include notes. Subjects include Complexity, Sustainability, and Animal Consciousness. My Life is a short autobiography. You may subscribe to the Newsletter page, called "CN Updates." It will provide news and information related to my projects. |
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