Cassiopeia's Quest - Revelation

By Mr. Jerry Smetzer

This is a collection of short works of speculative fiction in book form. The first story, Savanna, places the reader with an ancient clan of hunter-gatherers tracking a beast on the east African grasslands 100,000 years ago. The beast means meat and fat for food, blood for drink and hides for warmth. There will be bones and sinew to stiffen their hide-roofed huts against the ice age winds from the north.
The last story, The Tree of Life, has the reader on a modern-day crab boat, the "Aleutian Challenger", working well north of the Aleutian Chain off the west coast of Alaska. The all-woman crew must fight rolling heavy seas and crew injuries if they are to pull their remaining pots up from the sea floor 600 feet below the surface. The valuable loads of king crab in these pots means the difference between profit and deepening debt for the boat's owner and crew on this trip.
By careful use of history the writer layers fiction and character onto the selected time and place enfolds each story. In that way he illuminates the shape of human culture as it has evolved over the 100,000 years of his chronology.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 173266563X
• ISBN13: 9781732665637
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Small Systems Design Associates
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"