Eden: The Novel

by First-Time Novelist Ken Wisman

Publisher: Authorhouse

Publication Date: May 2004

Genre: Science Fiction

Book synopsis:

EDEN: The Novel is unique in that it tells two tales-one fact, the other fiction.

The fact: EDEN: The Novel contains a first person account of how, after being accidentally introduced to a hallucinogen, Wisman entered into a three-year period of experimentation and how the results became the stuff and substance of his fiction. In a series of author's notes Wisman describe how EDEN: The Novel, a work that took seven years, is the direct result of what he learned during his excursions into the unconscious and how the novel's ideas, characters, and images grew out of his insights and visions.

The fiction: The plot centers around a future bioengineering experiment gone terribly wrong. A group comprised of 100 scientists and seven artists gather to create a new Eden of artistically rendered animals and plants. All goes well until an individual in their group goes insane and concludes that what they are doing is against god and nature. He subsequently attacks the Eden group with bioengineered monsters, forcing the idealists to defend themselves with insects molded into bizarre engines of war all leading to an ending both poignant and transcendent.

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ISBN: 1418427411

Author Bio:

For a year and a half Ken Wisman shared publishing and editorial responsibilities with Joe Morey on Dark Regions magazine. He has had more than 75 SF/F/H short stories published in a variety of magazines in the US (incl F&SF), England (incl Interzone) and Australia (incl Eidolon). Four of his stories have been translated into German, Russian, and Polish. He has had five short story collections published (Fourteen Fantasies from a Shop Called Imagination, still available from Amazon.com & B&N). Dark Regions published a novelette called EDEN, upon which the novel bases. EDEN: The Novel is his first published novel.

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