Eric CallcutPen Name on Medium.com:
Bonobo
Book 1: Transit Hall 37 North 6
"Fairy tales are true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." (G.K. Chesterton) Air-conditioning engineer was a good job, in the future. The Last Beautiful Republic, a good place to live: the only place to live. And Jude was faring unquestioningly well regarding his professional evolutionary curve, his family status development, his social positioning. Until the day his transit was refused. And his life began ... Eric Callcut sets up a world of phenomenal power: a world both striking and disturbing. He sets up enormous challenges and meets them. His humor bites, his vision is in dolby-stereo, it does not cajole, it needles. Eric Callcut has created a world, our world, and he invites total belief. "Transit Hall 37 North 6" is the opening volume in the saga of "JUDE". "In the tradition of Le Guin, Brunner, Haldeman, Vonnegut, Wul ... Science-Fiction does not address 'unreality', nor 'the future' ... Science-Fiction is not predictive, it is descriptive; at its best, it is profoundly pertinent, meaningful, insightful, and ... ultimately radical!"
Book 2: The Surface
Yellow. If Jude had needed to express to his shrink the one word that jumped to his mind as he purveyed the scene all around them, it would undoubtedly have been: Yellow. Of course, nuance was possible if the psychiatrist loosened up the rules a bit: Jude could define and determine yellow beige, brownish yellow, plain yellowish, brightish yellow, blinding yellow, beigish yellow, harsh yellow, sandy yellow of course ... Sunny yellow, definitely-not-organic yellow - and, had Jude had plentiful time and equal quantities of life-credits to remunerate the shrink, he probably could have continued describing this yellowness until the shuttle came home, so put out and aggressed by it as he was. However, there was another word that wanted to interrupt and argue for supremacy, and that one was: Stones. Subdivided into: stony, rocks, rockishness, boulders, lots of stones, definitely-not-organic stones. And after these two distinct race-leaders, yellow and stones, came a respectable mumble-jumble of words such as: flat, big, blinding, hot, ugly, unwelcoming, definitely-not-organic ... "Well, surprise, surprise," piped Leeman, "we're breathing!" A quarter of the way up the sky, the sun dazzled. Terrifying, giant and hot, Jude wanted to ignore it, to pretend it wasn't there, arrogant and threatening and sheelaping hot. He preferred solar-simulators. But yes, they were breathing - and quite without effort. That was the first surprise. The air was strange for sure, it didn't smell of sweet pine or baked bread but neither did it burn instant holes in the trachea ... "Callcut's epic saga is a fabulous collage, an immense opera, a journey, an initiation. Eagle-sharp, witty, and cruel ..." "The Surface" is the second volume in the JUDE trilogy. "We are in need of great adventures that lift us up and carry us away ... "
Book 3: Adsbàn
JUDE describes a stunning Science-Fiction world that grabs at our hearts, not to let them go until the very last paragraph. Challenging, multi-layered, acerbic, unforgettable ... Had he lived criminally? Had Osha and he and his parents and all his acquaintances lived criminally? They had followed the laws, it was true; but that wasn't really the point - they had written the laws. But even that wasn't really the point. They were the authors of the Urbanosphere ... The cold gnawed at his legs and numbed his fingers. The mean god of frost whipped Jude's lips, spat parcels of sand into his eyes, across his cheeks. Jude had inherited the Earth: the clean, sterilised, sterile, underground earth. They had each inherited the Urbanosphere and the Last Beautiful Republic. But nobody questioned anything! Only a handful did, and they were arrested as subversives; the remaining civilised human beings didn't even question that ... "A PROFUSE AND ORIGINAL CONCLUSION TO THIS EXTRAORDINARY TRILOGY "
Eric Callcut or Bonobo
Eric Callcut writes under the pen name of Bonobo on Medium.com.
Eric is an author and a shamanic healer.
He has also published three volumes in French of Quaker-based spirituality.
