Richard Bliss
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What if you had one of two choices only? Lose your island Nation or recreate it in orbit prior to taking the entire nation to the nearest star? Given the choice, the Queen of Hawaii Nation, after a second insurrection in 2017, decides to follow the new age-new tech direction of Brad Ellis and create Ohana in The Whale. The Family of Hawaiians go up to orbit, creating Maui and Oahu in the huge canisters-ship known as The Whale. Led by business developers and frustrations with administrative top-heavy High Tech park, Brad Ellis also sees the migration as a solution to how to keep the tech they have discovered alive in the world. A conservative presidential ogre, McBain, has outlawed all new technology as being "against the will of God" encouraging his followers to concentrate instead on the prospects of a perfect afterlife. With this spiritual war going on back on Earth, Brad and the Hawaiians head to Alpha Centauri II under the pilot of God of Stanley Ramo, a pilot whose bipolar faisure has created a glitch in the AI operating system of the ship, based on his neuronetworks. Once at the destination, more wonders are instore as the Infonauts take their Family of Space onto the next stage.
This is only part of the story and things sometimes happen in threes whether you're Ramo or not. Look for OHANA: REVISED an expanded and reworked version of the "evolvel" OHANA, A Novel of Hawaii and Space, from 1stbooks sometime in the next 6-9 months.
Born sometime this century, always looking to the next one, Richard lived in Maui after developing scripts in LA and before that won a Broderson Award in advertising in Maine. After taking the workshop in Massively Parallel Computing at Maui High Performance Computing Center, he was on the beach at Kanaha one day watching the Japanese windsurfers and thought, "What if . . . " all the special tech they were working on came true and then was outlawed by a conservative regime. The beginning of any great sci-fi concept is when the Nation of Hawaii decides it is tired of being a kept island and prepares to make the leap, both material and spiritual, into space.
Mr. Bliss spent about five years in each of the cities: New York, Boston, Portland (Maine), LA-Beverly Hills, Honolulu-Kahului ("The Dream City"), Jacksonville and once had Ray Bradbury as a neighbor. He now lives on St. Simon’s Island, Georgia, developing Internet software, and drives between Savannah and Florida regularly, dreaming of new stories like the upcoming Lighthouse Rockets.
Either you go into space together or not at all.
--Kimo
OHANA: THE FAMILY OF MAN IN SPACE
Famiily. You either have it or you don't.
We are all a family, all Hawaiians. And everyone who can get
here can be, Hawaiian too, but you have to get here before we leave.
When the Nation of Hawaii votes for sovereign nationstatus, in
effect seceeding from the United States of America, the repressive forces of
Mr.Bain's troops put all the Hawaiian Nationalists under house arrest.
So, they decide instead to Go Up. Up to the island-in-a-drum,
the island of Maui texture-mapped inside a huge ship called The Whale, readied
to go to the nearest stars.
Brad Ellis is a radical, bureaucracy-hating technologist who
helps them recreate the island of Maui in the barrel-shaped ship built in
geosynchronous orbit 24,000 miles above the earth.
At the same time, there is in development a training program
called The Sky Farm, which prepares "infonauts" for penetration of deep space
using an interface with a computer. The computer in tum connects with the oceans
of the world as a huge wave-reflector, the I/O to the deep-space
sources, which configure reality and create distances.
The dual routes develop side by side, and some of the settlers
in the "Generation Ship" also posess the rudimentary talents of Sky Farm
graduates. They take off, ready to project en route to th& destination as an
"advance team" of cyber-travelers.
Leftovers of McBmuls anti-technology minions stowaway onboard
The Whale and engineer a second-generation crisis. Whale settlers are blocked
against remembering the true purpose of The Mission.
They put together the Mission Regulars and start a war in the
Whale, halfway to the nearest star. when the ship's mass is reaching 60%
infinite, based on their speed.
Patty Poo, granddaughter of one of the original cybemauts,
works out in the Tanks, using the cybergear. She is trains to make The Leap.
When ship's Captain Ramo increases the spin of the Whale to supress the troops,
flattening them against the ground, she uses the extra specific gravity in
floatation to jump forward a lightyear in distance and about fiity years back in
time to the nearest star's habitable planet.
She is there when Brad Ellis first cyber-launches to the
nearest star using the first cyber-tank on Maui.
The Next Stage is the race of Golden Men who evolve from the
first group of settlers to reach the nearest star, the Hawaiians from The
Whale. Having crossed another gulf in their ship, the Hawaiians set up a
colony. and proceed to explore alternate space.
