I write novels about science. But to qualify that, the books include science fiction, science speculation, futuristic technology, and other agendas that expand the identity of science. My goal is to provide great adventure, and a relationship with science that will inspire the reader to challenge and question the truth. This search amplifies when science becomes repressive and self important, when it demonizes our every doubt and suspicion, and when it becomes the only actor on stage.
Science grabbed my attention a long time ago. As a boy of five or six, I can recall being troubled by the fact that people lived on the earth’s surface, and not inside the earth. How could that be? Why were folks not falling off the earth like water dripping from a spinning tennis ball? This was the beginning of a quest for truth, and a trust in science. I gave my heart to science, but not my soul. There was room for inquisition and reservation, and I always had my doubts that something was missing.
Kingdom of the Blue Diamond questions the paradigm that the origin of life on earth was nothing more than a random, chemically induced event, and that human evolution followed a similar path of accidental consequence. The story marches out of the back end with an astounding deduction about the origins of life in the universe.
Hidden in the plot of Forbidden Summit is a reference to the principles of the ancient Greek philosophy of Gaia. This conviction assigns a balance of existence to all living things and the environment that it is sustained by. Even today, there is growing recognition that consciousness may be a force that pervades the universe, like gravity or electromagnetism.
I’m a list guy. Top ten. Today, it almost seems to be a cultural obligation. Get your mind in order and your facts straight. OK fine. Among my favorite days include the birth of my son, a total solar eclipse viewed with my wife at Maryhill Stonehenge in 1979, a day at Machu Picchu with my cousin and my Bolivian buddy Pablo, climbing Mt. Langley with my daughter and meeting a herd of rare Bighorn ship at the summit, attending my first major league baseball game with my father at Candlestick Park in 1962. I believe that simple, innocent events define who we are, and build the best days of our lives.
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Kirk Pocan 