I have been very fortunate in my years as editor to work with exceptional and bright people dedicated to refashioning ideas in science and philosophy. We are going through a time of enormous change in our western culture, and the old paradigms no longer stand the test of time. Many of our accepted practices and beliefs have brought us, and our planet, to a place of extreme vulnerability and dire ugliness. Tragically, we have mostly been unaware of the damage we have been causing, and those voices that called for change were mostly ignored. Governments and institutions that should have been protectors of society and landscape, have played into the hands of commerce and short term profiteering.
Against this background, I wrote King Abba, a philosophical fantasy for young people, equally for any thoughtful person unhappy with current values and practices in science, technology, economics and government. My aim was to open up questions which are not often asked in our educational system, and introduce doubts and queries where we take so much for granted as if there were no other way of seeing things. As so much of what we accept is actually absurd, there is a comic element in the book, too. It can be seen as a satire of our times and our present society. The book is written as an adventure story, but stops now and then (more than conventional publishers would like) to ask questions.
King Abba is now published as an e-book, and details can be found here.
