The Guardians--A Novel

One of the greatest joys and challenges in writing science fiction is the creation of the universe in which the story lives. Every genre of fiction contains a universe of some kind. Horror, crime drama, westerns, historical drama, and others have their own universe. Their universes are generally grounded into the real world. Fantasy and science fiction can create new worlds to explore.

One of the more fascinating aspects of creating your own universe from scratch is the deeper understanding you obtain of your own culture and the historical cultures that it was built upon. If we look at our world today we can still see the echoes of the ancient Roman Republic and Empire in western culture. In eastern culture, the influence of the Han Dynasty runs through the content of Asia like the roots a tall strong tree. When you draw from that social history—not the focus of dates and events so much on how people lived, thought, worked and played—you unearth a buried treasure that gives you the author and your readers an amazement as if you had opened a chest of buried gold . . .for you never know what might lie just behind the next page.

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