towards the unMaking of Heaven, Not Now: Death, Dreams & Reasons for Living

Download or read book towards the unMaking of Heaven, Not Now: Death, Dreams & Reasons for Living written by Sam Smith and published by The eBook Sale. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An SF exploration of desire, dreams and self-deceit. Okinwe Orbinson is recruited from his artificial city world--part of a moribund space civilisation--his mission is to save a rumoured hybrid-human race, Talkers, from self-extinction. Talkers are telepathic, and individual suicides among the Talkers are becoming epidemic. Left on one of their planets Okinwe is witness to 3 suicides in quick succession. Suspicious of all around him, doubting himself, not knowing if his thoughts are his own, he becomes friends with a Talker woman, worries for her safety and falls in love with her daughter. Their love affair is not easy. Nor is the solution to the suicides.