The Guardians--A Novel

In the last blog of The Guardians, I expressed my surprise at the task before me to re-imagine and rewrite my former novel Voices of Command. At that time I did not realize to what level the task would be. I am tossing the whole previous story in the proverbial incinerator and starting from scratch. Part of this reason is that I original wrote Voices of Command in a traditional science fiction story telling style that is reminiscent of Star Wars, Star Trek, and other like stories. That story telling style is now scrapped.

I love history and am a firm believer in Santayana’s philosophy: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” As a student of history, I se the past in new guises returned under the noses of those who are living it. This premise was originally applied to Voices of Command in an aspect of a new republic being born and then facing the threats from without and from within as the young United States began to do under the presidency of John Adams. It was that period of history I originally turned to.

As I begin to re-imagine this story, I find that my original premise does not work any longer. Instead, I am turning my eye further back in history—to the ancient Roman republic. We shall see what this affords me.

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