The Rise and Fall of Shimmerism

By James Kracht

Book Overview

It is the year 2167 and Simon Shadow leaves an overpopulated Earth on a personal quest for freedom; his target is Reetar, a distant planet recently colonized. What he finds upon arrival is a city bristling with rival religions.

Within a matter of days, Simon offends the Unholy Mass, the colony's most sadistic and powerful religion. His life threatened, he realizes the only way to save himself is to become a rival faith--Shimmerism--while on the far side of the planet, a lone starship has crash-landed.

The survivors begin their own quest, searching for a fabled city of spiritual purity; their trials in the wilderness unfold in parallel with Simon Shadow's, while above them all, in orbit around Reetar, an all-powerful military force guards over the colony, laying waste to anyone foolish enough to threaten the balance of the Great Experiment--the ruling philosophy that governs humanity's colonization of new worlds.

Visit the author's web site at www.shimmerism.org

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595762182
• ISBN13: 9780595762187
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"