The Rise and Fall of Shimmerism

It is the year 2167 and Simon Shadow leaves an overpopulated Earth on a personal quest for freedom; his target is Reetar a distant planet recently colonized. What he finds upon arrival is a city bristling with rival religions. Within a matter of days Simon offends the Unholy Mass the colony's most sadistic and powerful religion. His life threatened he realizes the only way to save himself is to become a rival faith--Shimmerism--while on the far side of the planet a lone starship has crash-landed. The survivors begin their own quest searching for a fabled city of spiritual purity; their trials in the wilderness unfold in parallel with Simon Shadow's while above them all in orbit around Reetar an all-powerful military force guards over the colony laying waste to anyone foolish enough to threaten the balance of the Great Experiment--the ruling philosophy that governs humanity's colonization of new worlds.Visit the author's web site at www.shimmerism.org