Mark Buchignani

The Would-be Lives of Adam Back (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Put a gun in a man's life, what does he do? Like stashing a hundred-dollar bill or hiding a chocolate bar, a gun adds temptation. He struggles with the urge. He fights it, mulls it, considers it. It weighs on him. Eventually, he spends the cash, he eats the candy. He shoots the gun. He finds a need or one finds him, and he concedes, gives in, bows. Who's better for it? At best, unclear.

Leave the gun out. Now what? No secret money, no hidden sweets. No temptation. What does he do? He doesn't struggle or fight or mull or consider. He doesn't spend it or eat it. He doesn't shoot it it isn't there to shoot. He does what he normally would've done. He goes on with his life, uninterrupted. Who's better for that? At best, unclear.

This story isn't about guns or gun politics neither of these is the point. What is? The different lives that might spring from a single event, providing the man a gun or not. What changes? What doesn't? This is a fictional study, a comparison of Adam Back's would-be lives one with a gun, one without; one lived within a society sprung from the desire for power, one within the baseline, nothing new, no conspicuous autocratic lust.

The Would-be Lives of Adam Back is a tale of how an individual must adapt when his life is upended by violent cultural upheaval. It is told in two halves, each narrated by Adam himself as things would have been and as they actually were. Did both Adams adapt? Did they thrive? What would both of you have done?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mark Buchignani
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798215685037
• Artikelnr.: 66175378

Autorenporträt

An avid reader of literary fiction, fantasy, and science fiction, Mark Buchignani has more 'favorite' authors than he can count, among them George R. Stewart, John Wain, Martin Amis, John Steinbeck, Margaret Atwood, Nicholson Baker, Richard Flanagan... The tip of the iceberg. Novels of my own began spilling out in 2005, resulting in, among others, MTee's Lament, a twist on a post-apocalyptic tale. Many more narratives followed. Some are published here; others languish behind "fair use" entanglements.

My stuff tends toward societal commentary, presented via normal people who find themselves in unexpected, offbeat, or abnormal circumstances circumstances replete with threatened or actual upheaval. The choices these folks make move the action forward and expose brokenness in the culture and in the actors themselves.

I'm also a huge Tolkien fan and have written volume one of a loosely-planned five-book set: The Recitation of Ooon. Though in the same genre as Lord the Rings, Ooon is definitely not Middle Earth, and there are no Hobbits. Just people trying to find their way while engulfed in a magical upheaval driven by a clash between followers of the ancient ways and those seeking a new, less-fettered life. The narrator is a thousand-year-old man, trying to see forward, while looking back, as his existence comes to a pre-destined end.

And I have devoured everything Theodore Sturgeon and quite a bit of old school SF. Though I have yet to draft anything within this genre, ideas continually percolate.