Odyssey in White Satin

The only true believers are those who are free not to be...

A young girl witnesses the destruction that warring factions unleash on humanity. They demand that individuals embrace their collective beliefs or suffer deadly punishment. The young girl's reluctant odyssey sees her confront the rival factions on their battlefield and boldy challenge their casus belli with logic and reason.

But her foes dismiss her with ad feminam insults, and the slaughter continues. As the girl grieves, a forgotten hero rescues her from our doomed world before she witnesses its final destruction. From a sanctuary of peace and rational thinking, both she and the reader now reflect on a galactic museum's guided history of humankind, to conclude that the destruction of our civilization was inevitable. Or was it? Could we really have saved ourselves? How?

Inspired by the enigmatic 1967 television series The Prisoner and other monuments to independent thought, Odyssey in White Satin offers an efficient but evocative analysis of persistent historical currents that have shaped humanity but could possibly lead to our demise. It is a must-read for fans and scholars of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece, The Little Prince.

Enjoy the museum, but beware of Exhibit 666.

Author: Otanes
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 01/21/2015
Pages: 70
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.17lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.14d
ISBN: 9781503056923

About the Author

The narrator of Odyssey in White Satin is Otanes, a nobleman and popular hero of ancient Persia, where he lived until circa 500 BCE. He served and advised at the royal courts of kings Cambyses and Darius, and was the author of the plan that exposed and ended the illegitimate reign of an imposter who had usurped the Persian throne circa 522 BCE. His ideas on democracy and freedom of the individual were centuries ahead of their time, but may have directly influenced those later articulated by Thomas Jefferson. Now an independent spirit, his own recollections of life in ancient Persia, as well as his informed analysis of other significant milestones since, give broad and persistent historical context to Odyssey in White Satin.

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