The Glass Ruins

By C.A. Jones

In The Glass Ruins a man is sent from the future to present-day Seattle to convince his pregnant mother not to abort him.In this speculative novel exploring philosophical and spiritual realms, Jasper Carnelian is a family man living in a post-collapse America with only the remnants of our current technology. Returning from an errand one night he is met by a mysterious man who supernaturally dispatches him to our present-day Seattle, with instructions only to find his young mother Annette. He soon realizes he is in a time before his birth, yet during his mother's pregnancy with him.The story alternates between Jasper's trip to present-day Seattle and a time in the post-collapse future when Jasper is just ten years old.In the present, he meets homeless men who discuss the failings of our world, lives through a bombing attack, and struggles to find his mother as a city falls into chaos. In the future, Jasper questions a gas station owner on the origin of the universe, the big bang, and God.The Glass Ruins has a unique mix of sci-fi and literary imagery; it is at once a novel of a dystopian future, of hushed candlelight and stained glass, and of a woman's struggle with pregnancy in a declining world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 197310752X
• ISBN13: 9781973107521
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 115 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"