The Guardians--A Novel

To borrow from a famous science fiction television show: “And so it begins . . . .” I have begun working on the plot line and the creation of the universe that “The Guardians” lives in. Strangely enough, as I begin to create civilizations, it is the human civilization that I am having the most concern about. The story set far in the future. Earth is a distant memory of man…almost like Eden or Atlantis may be to modern man. When I first started to name the human characters, I found myself naming them not too different from modern day people. This is not a bad thing, but it raised a question to my muse. Would cultural naming in the future be like today? A part of me wants to jump right out and say, “no, of course not. This is sci-fi and the future.” Another part of me, the historian, replies “if that is so, then why are cultural names so prevalent in modern nations like the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand…among many uncounted others that have been built on immigrants? Yet there are nations like Mexico, Philippines, Brazil, and many others where they have had a surnaming culture that has been changed from their original heritage.” What does that say about mankind?

Obviously our heritage and where our ancestors come from means something to us—an identity and a cultural connection to a community. Does this continue if we go to the stars? Maybe some future historian will point out the truth of that question. As for now, I am just playing with the possibilities of the question and what it may mean to the future culture of mankind.

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