HaikuPrajna
Dissatisfied, not/ from brute senselessness; restless /to grow and advance.
( “Solar Lottery” )
Pre-orders for the next book in the HaikuPrajna Collection are rolling out to bookstores, as of the time of writing “SM-SARA, Poems and Other Stories” is available for digital pre-orders on Apple Books; while we wait, today we have a Goodreads review for the first book I have finished reading this year.
Philip K. Dick’s first published novel is titled “Solar Lottery”, which takes place in a Sol system that revolves around a Hunger Games-like deathmatch between an interplanetary “Quizmaster” political leader and a lone assassin, who becomes Quizmaster should they succeed. Both individuals are seemingly chosen at random, where randomness is the guiding principle for the chaotic universe according to these characters, but their actions (and the book’s action-sequences) are defined by drawn-out descriptions of logical causality that culminates in a courtroom battle on the just and legal murdering of an individual who is alive and taking part in the dispute’s proceedings.
“Solar Lottery” would not be a Philip K. Dick book without a touch of his theosophy; through a subplot involving human-simulacrum and an undiscovered tenth planet, we bear witness to a budding author passing on his hope-tinged message:
“It isn’t senseless drive . . . It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of man - the need to grow and advance . . . to find new things . . . to expand. To spread out, reach areas, experiences, comprehend and live in an evolving fashion. To push aside routine and repetition, to break out of mindless monotony and thrust forward. To keep moving on . . .”
The "SM-SARA" HaikuPrajna Collection can be found here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/sm-sara.html
Poetry on, and the first draft of "Spear-thrower" can be read here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/spear-thrower.html
While I pitch my first novel, "Perennial City", the full first chapter along with rough-chapter previews can be found here: https://haikuprajna.blogspot.com/p/perennial-city.html
Thank you for reading.
Until next time,
Allen W. McLean
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