The Lands of Inchoate 2

About the Book

This prequel to The Lands of Inchoate: The Now Time tells of a dark-matter planet inside the Earth. The positive matter of Earth hardly reacts with Inchoate. Occasionally, an animal or person at a particular point on Earth’s surface “falls” onto the mysterious planet with its curious people, places, and customs. Two species of two-legged intelligence, the blue Homo vulgaris and the green Homo shardana each have capabilities the other does not but need. They live in a complex society where chaos and complexity produce unexpected and often unwanted results. The Progenitors are extremely intelligent visitors from a distant part of the Galaxy. They provide guidance, often ignored by the citizens of the lands of Inchoate. Then calamity arises and all are in danger.


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BOOK REVIEW

Asprawling, vibrant fantasy epic by author, professor and former Pentagon analyst Fisher.Fisher’s previous book, The Lands of Inchoate (2008), explored political strife and internecine conflictin the imaginary land of Gondwanaland. In this prequel, he journeys back to the “dark matter planet” tuckedinside Earth, where a hyper-intelligent species called the Progenitors do battle with the Troglodytes, a groupof brutal mercenary soldiers. The Troglodytes are intent on destroying the travalink, the system that allowsthe Progenitors to zip their way from one part of the universe to another. Meanwhile, two “evil geniuses”fan the flames of widening discontent and plan to dominate the planet via a secret society. Resistance is leftto a young Nebraskan named Jennifer, who commutes from her playroom to the “wondrous land beyond.”With the help of the Progenitors and her pet jackalope, she fights to save her world and the dark-matterplanet underneath. Fans of Stephen King’s Dark Towerbooks and Terry Goodkind’s fiction will find much to like here. Fisher advances thenarrative at a swift velocity, and his knowledge of science yields an immensely detailed and immersive landscape. He includes timetablescalibrated to the day, a few computer-generated maps and a helpful character index at book’s end. Readers shuttle back and forth betweencenturies, visiting battlegrounds and science labs—feeling the heat of pitched battle and the steady hum of political intrigue. Unique for afantasy writer, the author has a decent ear for poetics. Some passages feel canned, but most sing. Watching the approach of morning, onecharacter muses, “The dawn is like a curved chisel on a mahogany ball. When the night has been still and the air warm, the chisel against the ball makes the air rise, and cool air takes its place.” Adeeply felt, deftly paced fantasy adventure.

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About the Author

The author has had three careers. He was in the United States Air Force for 21 years and worked at Cape Canaveral at the beginning of the Apollo Era, the Pentagon as a strategic analyst and the Air Force Institute of Technology as a professor of quantitative analysis. He then taught about the use of computer applications in large organizations at Central Michigan University for 24 years and is a Professor Emeritus. During these 45 years he wrote and presented numerous technical papers, articles and presentations. Now he is an author: this is his sixth book of fiction.