Space Ark! - A Futuristic Science Fiction Space Odyssey

a science–fiction tale intended to revolutionize the world

greetings from the author

Hi! I'm Nate Carnes, the author of Space Ark!

I received a B. A. degree in 1975 from Cal State University at Northridge. I graduated with honors in my major field of study, political science, and is why the book's last chapter focuses on the vital foundation for a good world: its political system.

Seeing a UFO hover silently overhead, then fly away through the evening sky in 1989 was the spark inspiring me to pen a Space Opera. I've seen other UFOs since then. I began weaving the fantastical yarn in 1991, then finally found the pot of gold at the end of its vast rainbow in 2007, indeed a very long journey of discovery guided by the muse of the boundless imagination. Writing can be as much an odyssey of revelation for the writer as for the reader. For, I discovered the same concepts the reader will discover by way of a fable, just over a much broader arc of time!

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 forever 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.

The greatest person I'll ever know still teaches me and guides me oh so subtly yet so very powerfully, but now from a celestial mansion somewhere over the Rainbow way up high, an everlasting abode in which 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 exhilaration 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 eternal peace and rapture, a place where sterling Beauty is evermore lustrous with glistening perennials midst its dreamy domain of glittering gardens ecstatic in enchanting elegance and always abloom in bliss, where luxuriant meadows ablaze with iridescent pedals like prisms resting delicately atop diamantine dandelions split the ever bedazzling Glory glimmering all about into the warm colors of Compassion unveiling amazing Grace , embracing rays of Mercy and illuminating truth as riots of blossoms so radiant shimmer in the cool shade under a towering TREE OF LIFE ever emanating Goodness from its soaring height, where the dazzling realm of magical splendor ever gleams with divine vibrations glowing so very far above, where a brilliant beacon of True Love always beams with 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 better place to be where efflorescent wishes ever vibrant never blow away, but where the soothing balm of Living Waters rippling so softly with gossamer hopes for us below ever streams from sparkling reservoirs of love so very high above, shimmering ponds of Still Waters ever so placid, so deep and so clear with crystalline passion, overflowing with blessings and always aglow in Golden Love , descending in calm to the wishing wells of hearts here below their desiderata gently flow, wherein stardust dreams so lofty alight, then gladly shine toward ever sacred heights with beaming delight, ascending higher and ever higher in blessed flight, forever reflecting such a Faithful Love from an ever Abiding Light .

Before returning to a 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 cosmic island with no way to exit until a space ark is built, boarded, then launched to the heavens toward those penultimate destinations! For now, this sojourner will keep looking skyward for the lights of similar Chariots Of Fire while gazing heavenward to a higher light glimpsed only through a glass darkly from the Earth.