Regenesis
Published on 3. June 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
126 pages
978-1-953340-02-3 (ISBN)
Description
On a far future world untouched by human presence for almost five hundred years, a young woman pilot crashes into a forest. Nothing in her life has prepared her for this moment, except a training session that neither she nor her peers took seriously. Forced from her comfortable shell, moving through the dark forest night toward rescue, she confronts the realities of her current moment and the complexities of the revolution that shaped the world she knows.
Unknown to her, she is pursued by a creature from that same past she helped undo, a species mistreated by the former world, now regaining much of its lost territory. In that previous world, almost completely wiped away now by the work of herself and generations of others, the voices and needs of nonhuman entities went unheeded. In the darkness of the forest she may well learn a lesson in perspective, in viewing the world through other eyes-the eyes and senses of the nonhuman.
Nearing the end of her journey, close to rescue, she realizes something follows her. Fearful, all her ethics, everything she believes in, are suddenly on the line and she finds herself tested in a way in a way she never expected. The larger world of her concerns compresses to a pair of eyes and she must decide: in this moment of two worlds meeting, will she choose the path of self-preservation, or if necessary will she sacrifice herself for the greater good?
Unknown to her, she is pursued by a creature from that same past she helped undo, a species mistreated by the former world, now regaining much of its lost territory. In that previous world, almost completely wiped away now by the work of herself and generations of others, the voices and needs of nonhuman entities went unheeded. In the darkness of the forest she may well learn a lesson in perspective, in viewing the world through other eyes-the eyes and senses of the nonhuman.
Nearing the end of her journey, close to rescue, she realizes something follows her. Fearful, all her ethics, everything she believes in, are suddenly on the line and she finds herself tested in a way in a way she never expected. The larger world of her concerns compresses to a pair of eyes and she must decide: in this moment of two worlds meeting, will she choose the path of self-preservation, or if necessary will she sacrifice herself for the greater good?
Reviews / Votes
In his eco-sci-fi novel, Regenesis, William Huggins' futuristic setting of life aboard the spacecraft Rise Against, presents a cautionary tale of damage inflicted on Earth during the Dirty Days and the resulting optimistic goal of the Fallowing period to restore fauna and flora to the planet by abandoning it, removing humans and all manufactured remnants of their civilization. The architect of the Fallowing's vision argues that humans must rethink their relationships to the biosphere and consider nonhuman needs alongside theirs if they ever want to repopulate Earth. To illustrate this symbiotic relationship, Orb pilot Rowan Martinez crashes on Earth during a routine mapping flight and experiences firsthand love and respect for the environment parallel to Alpha wolf's journey to survive and protect his family. The suspenseful conclusion offers new hope and life for the characters and the planet.-Patrice Hollrah, PhD William Huggins has crafted a hopeful possibility for the future of Earth, currently on the brink of ecological annihilation, driven by greed and lust for wealth and power. Amid the meltdown of the polar icecaps; out-of-control wildfires; cataclysmic hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods; and the extinction of countless animal and plant species a lone voice arose, sparking an unprecedented environmental movement that plays out through the lens of a woman who must battle her primeval instincts and a wolf intent on insuring the survival of his family.
-Sierra Adare-Tasiwoopa api, author of Murder on Her Mind We've arrived at the future predicted by past science fiction-credit cards (in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward in 1888; surveillance cameras in George Orwell's 1984 in 1949; wireless headphones (Ray Bradbury's "Thimble Radios" in Fahrenheit 451, 1953); the world wide web in William Gibson's Neuromancer in 1984. Not to mention the thousands of examples of rogue computers first controlling then threatening the existence of humans. Or the thousands of "post-apocalyptic" novels, many which extrapolate our disrespect and abuse of Planet Earth in exchange for modern progress.
While reading Regenesis, the thought struck me that yes, science fiction has predicted the future, but does it in some perhaps quantum way, create the future? Personally, I've always felt that while our modern human technological addictions threaten our future, Earth will survive beyond us. If William Huggins is creating the future, it is one filled with hope and possibility and conscious sacrifice by humans suggesting that we might actually finally acknowledge the errors of our ways. In Regenesis. we meet someone who understood what humans had done to the earth and instigated "the Fallowing" wherein humans survive, but leave the planet allowing it to regenerate. 500 years into the 'fallowing' humans and nature reunite, woman and wolf, this time as equals.
-Brooke Williams, author of Open Midnight: Where Ancestors and Wilderness Meet
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pawcatuck
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 215 mm
Width: 139 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-953340-02-3 (9781953340023)
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William Huggins was born in the stunning canyon country of southeastern Utah in the second half of the twentieth century. He currently lives, works, writes, and explores our planet from his home in the desert southwest with his wife, daughter, son, and three intrepid rescue dogs. He spends too much time outside when he should be writing.
Due to his father's line of work with the United States Air Force, William grew up in a series of remote places around the US, moving often. Wanderlust is a primary character trait. He drew inspiration from the natural world at an early age and that passion carried him through undergraduate studies in Literature at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, and later to an MA at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with an emphasis on environmental and indigenous literatures.
Due to his father's line of work with the United States Air Force, William grew up in a series of remote places around the US, moving often. Wanderlust is a primary character trait. He drew inspiration from the natural world at an early age and that passion carried him through undergraduate studies in Literature at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, and later to an MA at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, with an emphasis on environmental and indigenous literatures.