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Can an extraterrestrial intelligence use our own biology against us? Can a human consciousness survive in a virtual environment? Can one wish for a mate to avoid the rigors of dating? Can a book written by a future savior spark a new religion? Each of the stories in this speculative collection takes the reader further into the future and farther out into the cosmos.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Nancy Joie Wilkie worked for over thirty years in both the biotechnology industry and as part of the federal government’s biodefense effort. Now retired, she composes original music, plays a variety of instruments, and has recorded many of her original compositions. She also created a series of greeting cards that display her artwork and photographs.
Faraway and Forever is her second collection of stories.
Seven Sides of Self, her first, was published by She Writes Press in November 2019. She also will release a collection of fantasy short stories titled
The River Keeper and Other Tales in February 2025, published by Subplot Books (an imprint of Mascot Books). She is currently working on a follow-up collection of science fiction novelettes titled
By The Light Of The Sun and a children’s story. Nancy resides in Brookeville, Maryland.
Zusammenfassung
Can an extraterrestrial intelligence use our own biology against us? Can a human consciousness survive in a virtual environment? Can one wish for a mate to avoid the rigors of dating? Can a book written by a future savior spark a new religion? Each of the stories in this speculative collection takes the reader further into the future and farther out into the cosmos.
Vorwort
AUTHOR HIRED: Books Forward
In addition:
• Author to create an ad for publication in the Greater Olney News (a local newspaper).
• Author to submit a blurb in the Class Notes section of Wake Forest Magazine.
• Author will supply copies of the book to: the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Libraries, the South Coastal Library (Bethany Beach, DE), the Wake Forest University Z. Smith Reynolds Library (Winston-Salem, NC), Malaprops Book Store (Asheville, NC), and the Montreat Store (Montreat, NC).
• Author to attend the Words Awake! Conference for Wake Forest University alumni who are published authors at its next meeting in Spring 2024.
• Author will travel for public speaking engagements.
