The Rise of Nega-State

The inhabitants of Nega-State were the greatest threat to Herman and his allies. Yet they did not start out that way. Nega-State was created when a group of monks found a mysterious crystal in their monastery. That crystal slowly transformed the nearby city, the surrounding countryside and the people who lived there. This novella is the record of that transformation. A.J. Slipchenko is a Canadian who wrote Herman's dream and the Pre-Herman series (The Rise of Nega-State, the Secrets of Brother Joy and the Greater Theft) which were inspired by undergrad psychology and sociology classes taken at university.After university, he taught English internationally where he developed an interest in travel, photography and different cultures.When not creating new psychological vistas, he drinks coffee. These books are set in the time before Herman's Dream. They focus entirely on the dream characters and do not contain any "tourists". These books can be read as stand alone but are also connected to each other.