Easing into the Night & Easing into the Sequel: Book I & II The Bible of Bobism

By Joe Paul Vanhaverbeke

Our tale begins with an aging detective, Archie, who, through his latest case, meets an immortal named Bob. Bob is trapped in a 90-year-old body; his immortality a curse by a powerful Shaman due to an indiscretion involving someone in the Shaman's inner circle. It entailed his treatment of women. His immortality was dependent on easings. The Shaman had said, "Ease them into the night where they will go and be what they are." This involved helping women alone in their declining years enjoy their last days on earth. Then at death, holding their hand, so they didn't go it alone. History scattered with easings. Archie's wife, Rose, is dying in the hospital, and Bob senses Archie hasn't weighed the gravity of such a loss. In her final moments, Archie has an epiphany and realizes something he wouldn't have if not for Bob.A gestalt of sorts ends the Night and the Sequel takes up. When we left Bob, he was dead (I didn't say gestalts were easy.). Something of a setback for an immortal who had lived 10,000 years. But Jack, the guy in the white room, had told him he was going to become a god; a promotion of sorts for all the easings he had done. Archie has been handed the baton for easing, and after the baton's and time's passing, it was found to come with a perk--immortality. Bob's been gone 200 years and Archie has relocated to Mars where he works at Musk City's "Unsolved Crimes" division. Archie has settled into his immortality; his subtle nature belying the effects he's had on mankind for two centuries. All the gods that ever existed have disappeared. The replacement team is in and their paths cross at the Mar's spaceport where Archie is picking up a new employee. Jack is back, the combination platter of the gods. Bob is coming off his 200-year hiatus. There's a computer collective, HAL, that's promoted to god and replaces Jobs, Gates, Turing, and all the other computer gods, and the God Gene, aka James, a combination of energy and biological matter; a lab created god. Archie is bestowed godhood. It becomes the wager in a high stakes gamble to make up for all he's done to her when he gets a lead on the means and latches onto it like chrome on a trailer hitch ball.The Sequel includes:All the gods ever worshipped by man, together for the first time (not all have speaking parts).The story of the big bang. A ruckus romp through the widespread devastation that was our beginning challenging the Universe's pucker power. Its creation comparable to making an omelet and having to break a few eggs but bigger and with pyrotechnics.Introducing Fate, Time, and The All. A look into the business end of their operation with peeks into Fate's plane of existence.Excerpt: "The skies have been my life, but I see nothing in this one I've ever seen before," said Michio Kaku. "This is not the physics we know. It is some inside out, backward, unbalanced version, but quantified by its being--I exist, therefore I am. It cannot be denied what stares into our faces every moment of our existence, we just don't know what that is." Einstein stood, puffing on his pipe and shaking his head; all his quantifications amounted to a hill of black holes in this sky.Archie engages his car's computer delivering convoluted life lessons.The WABAC Machine. Pulled from the annals of history (that must have hurt) and delivered by Fate to Mars for what reason Time isn't sure of.The setting is Mars and the atmosphere is thin. Just enough to tie up the loose ends from the Night; the Sequel a noble tale light in gravity.Let me take you on a journey. It's a short one but very satisfying. We'll start down reality road and then take exit ?, the fiction exit. It leads to fantasy highway where we tool up to warp ten and watch in the rear-view mirror as reality fades and our imagination takes over. An urban fantasy novella of space opera proportions. The evening is young, and your carriage awaits. ~ Enjoy!joepaulv.com

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152116259X
• ISBN13: 9781521162590
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"