greetings from the author

Hi! I'm Nathan Carnes, the creator of Space Ark! I received a B. A. degree in 1975 from Cal State University at Northridge, graduating with honors in my major field of study, Political Science, and is why the book's final chapter focuses on the vital foundation for a good world: a political system befitting any such beneficent world. I was inspired to pen a Space Opera after seeing a UFO glide silently overhead, stop, hover and then fly away through a midsummer's evening sky in 1989. I saw other UFOs since then. I began weaving the fantastical yarn two years later and then finally found the pot of gold at the end of its vast rainbow after a long journey of discovery onboard  the  starship  of  inspiration flown by the muse of boundless imagining. Writing can be as much an odyssey of revelation for the writer as for the reader because I discovered what the reader will discover by way of a fable, simply over a much broader Arc  Of  Time . 6 Space Ark! is my first full-length novel. Although I dedicated the book to John F. Kennedy, the beloved President of the USA who galvanized his fellow citizens and all mankind into voyaging skyward where they had not ventured before, I shall be eternally grateful to my wonderful mother, JoAnne M. Mayer, for motivating me to enliven and unfold its treatment into a fully developed story when it was only twenty pages without a plot, nor characters nor any dialogue. Yet rather than negatively criticizing them, the nearest and dearest person to me instead graciously fostered my budding literary efforts by saying I had good ideas but that characters needed to say and do what those basic concepts were suggesting. She thereby launched my own pilgrimage of discovery when such notions were still grounded with no wings to make them soar. She thus was an adept facilitator, the best kind of teacher, because of the gentle yet potent ways of mentoring she employed to empower, to guide and encourage many people during her life on Earth. þ The best teacher from whom I'll ever learn, and the greatest person I'll ever know, still teaches me, guides me, inspires me and protects me oh so subtly yet so very powerfully, but now from a resplendent mansion in the sky embosomed somewhere over the Rainbow  way up high, an everlasting abode enshrouded in love's enveloping light where I too will abide again someday upon returning to my home sweet home! Because Home   is wherever Mom   is, the ultimate destination where the endless exultation of a joyful reunion with loved ones patiently awaits ones happy homecoming, a serene kingdom wherein  freedom reigns forevermore supreme amidst the cozy comfort of perpetual peace and eternal exhilaration, A Better Place   to be where rapturous Beauty  is evermore lustrous with glistening perennials midst its dreamy domain of glittering gardens ecstatic in enchanting elegance and always abloom in bliss, where fragrant meadows ever ablaze with iridescent pedals like prisms resting calmly atop delicate diamantine dandelions split the bedazzling glory glimmering roundabout into the warm  Colors  Of Crystalline Compassion  so vivid unveiling amazing Grace , embracing rays of Mercy  and illuminating truth as riots of blossoms so radiant shimmer in the cool shade under a towery tree of life ever emanating Goodness  glowing from its majestic height, where a wondrous realm of magical splendor so luxuriant gleams with divine vibrations oh so far above, where a brilliant beacon of True Love   faithfully beams sublime inspiration oh so very bright, a luminous candle never fading but ever revealing its Perfect Love   from a veiled dominion of Pure Light , a dazzling realm of scintillating wonders where efflorescent wishes forever vibrant never drift away, but where the balm of Living Waters   rippling so softly with gossamer hopes for us below steadily streams from sparkling ponds of celestial love so high above, shimmering pools of Still Waters   ever so placid, so clear and so deep with  Fathomless  Blessings , perpetually aglow in Golden  Love  and overflowing with  Supernal  Passion , descending in calm to the awaiting wishing wells of our ever hopeful hearts here below, their sterling desiderata gently flow, wherein stardust dreams so lofty alight to gladly shine toward towering heights with beaming delight, ascending higher and ever higher in spiring flight, gratefully reflecting such a Faithful  Love    from an ever Abiding  Light . ' Before returning to An Heavenly Country , I'll simply continue to sojourn as a stranger in a strange land, a pilgrim on one planet who knows he likely never will be able to visit any other strange lands on any other foreign worlds near or far from the one of his origin on his way home to paradise. Instead, he must remain marooned with everyone else whom also are stranded on a remote cosmic island with no way to exit unless and until a space ark  finally is built, boarded and then launched upward to the heavens toward any such penultimate destinations! In the meantime, this sojourner will continue looking skyward for the mysterious lights of similar CHARIOTS OF FIRE  while gazing heavenward to a higher light glimpsed only through a glass darkly from his home planet.

Ô   _{Swing low Sweet Chariot ...}

... Comin' for to take me Home  H

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