The Book of Squidly Light

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Halycon Sage is back!</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> As the eccentric citizens of Dry Creek Gulch happily organize a peaceful post-technological society big sparkly blue Squidren are rapidly approaching Earth! These telepathic time-traveling dimension-hopping Squids have</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> plans</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> for us-as do the suddenly sentient Nanobots and a Shadowy Man who preys on human weakness: shifting dimensions eccentric aliens and batty earthlings. Love hope courage and acceptance-</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>but there is danger! </em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Book of Squidly Light</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a space western and a post-apocalyptic story: Science Fiction Literary Fiction and Metafiction. It's also Book Two of The Sage Chronicles following </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Way Beyond: The Life and Times of Halycon Sage </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>which introduces the world-famous yet compulsively anonymous founder of the Post-Modernist Minimalist Neo-Symbolist Pseudo-Realist School of Literature.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In Book Two we return to the desert town of Dry Creek Gulch and re-encounter old friends: confused genius Alexander Preisczech and his mysterious wife Jenny former gangsters Ratbone and Wolf Iraqi pilot Muhammad Abdurraheem Hussein and family the intrepid Ruby Echevaria and many more including Sage's TV-watching motel-sleeping horse No-Name Stupid. We meet a few enemies of all sentient beings as well. The goal-again and always-is to unite across cultural and intergalactic barriers to save the earth and the wider universe from the dangers that threaten them even after the first supposed End of the World.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>The Book of</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Squidly Light</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)> takes everything deeper. It's written in layers and levels and like the metaphysical system of the Squidren it contains various threads: life in a post-apocalyptic desert town multicultural people and cross-cultural or cross-species romances the thoughts and behaviors of space aliens suddenly sentient nanobots rituals both holy and unholy poetry written by cats and horses and even a few Secrets of the Universe. It's also a critique of some life-denying attitudes that threaten us all.</span></p>