The Future's Coming Everywhere

<p>John Fraser’s latest work of fiction <em><strong>The Future’s Coming Everywhere</strong></em> <br />comprises two thematically linked stories. In the first <em><strong>Candice</strong></em> echoing<br />both Voltaire's Candide – a disillusioned idealist and world traveller – <br />and Zadig the last wise just king of Babylon – Candice sets out to find <br />power and wisdom. Her reason is dwarfed by a huge powerless electronic <br />brain functioning without purpose or control. She is compelled by office <br />politics to flee through the natural park she herself created. Managing to <br />evade pursuit regaining her autonomy and mobility she finds the people <br />she meets along the reservation's edge have neither power nor wisdom <br />but they do illuminate. Eventually she finds solace and refuge in a bar <br />The Truce. <br />     In the second tale<em><strong> Friends</strong></em> Danièle after adventures in the catering <br />trade and estrangement from her friends and lovers realises that it is in <br />Law that wisdom and justice must reside. Wisdom is everywhere law is <br />precarious but in the end she finds the latest king of Babylon in his vast <br />near-deserted residence. She waits for people to arrive to benefit from <br />this enlightened rule but will she wait alone…?<br /> </p>