Shonak

Shonak SeriesWelcome to the planet Shonak and its amazing people. Shonak is an alternate Earth that exists at another vibration than we do, and as the series explains, there are six planetary levels of resonance in all. Earth is at the highest vibration and Shonak itself is at the bottom, or slowest vibration, which they call Prime. Having evolved on different worlds, Shonakians and Earthers (as they call us) are understandably different in every respect. Shonak is a completely benign planet, with no dangerous animals or insects or plants so they evolved as non-aggressive people. They are some three feet tall and weigh about seventeen pounds. They are all nearly identical with brown, cold-blooded hairless bodies, big heads, and enormous mental capacity. They live upwards of seventeen hundred years, have no gender, and reproduce by regurgitating an egg in their four hundredth year. Another can be produced in their seven hundredth year if the population numbers require it. They eat a single food tube a day and with no taste buds food has never been more than fuel. They live for a single purpose: to further their culture's technocratic existence and improve their quality of life. They have no money or commerce, no politics or government bureaucracy. They have no religion no aggression, no families, only Teams. Team and indeed social seniority is based solely on a person's age. The oldest person in any Team and in any group is automatically The Eldest and is the unquestioned leader with absolute authority. Book 2: It's About TimeIt's About Time sees the one thousand-forty-nine-year-old and semi-retired Shonakian Bon brought back into active service as the Eldest of two Grand Teams, a first for Shonak. He is tasked with finding out what happened to shift Earth 3210 years into its future with no such time shift on Shonak. One second, Plus-Five was in 940 BCE and the next it's known as Earth and is a spacefaring, highly advanced civilization in its Universally Accepted Year of 2270! Making this even more curious, not to mention unbelievable, is the fact that the millions of covert surveillance devices on Earth recorded every minute of these three thousand-plus years but no living Shonakian, many of whom are well over fifteen hundred years old, have any recollection of the most recent events now seen in their video record of Earth. Clearly, Earth has experienced an advance in time and Shonak has not. Bon is charged with answering the question, "What's up with that?" His quest to find that answer, and his mission to forge relationship with the newly modern Earth are challenges unfaced by any Shonakian throughout their three hundred millennia of advanced culture. But Bon is a rare and uniquely qualified member of the Shonakian monoculture - he has always been the odd man out, the out of the box thinker. Read how he introduces Earth to the existence of Shonak. Read how he examines the very essence of the elusive thing known as Time. Watch as he deals with the scandal and repercussions caused by Shonak's secret intrusive surveillance of Earth. Watch him as he ages into the leadership of his planet and experience his opening of two of the other planets among the six "cousins" that are the separate Earths.

The Crown of Happenstance tells the story of a search for something which might not even exist but is wanted badly by various people on Earth and by the people of Shonak. It is rumored to confer god-like powers on whoever wears it. This story details two serious efforts to find and exploit the Crown. The Shonakian named Bon, who is that planet's senior representative on Earth, is after the Crown in order to reach ever higher vibrations of existence. They think that's where thought-creation can be achieved, and they would be delighted if they could simply "think" things into existence! They sent three vibration changing scout ships to the resonance above Earth, Plus-Six, but they all disappeared. They're desperate to find out what happened to their scouts because they cannot abide unanswered questions. The other searcher for the Crown is Atsa, a religious proto-Hopi from the desert southwest at a time on Earth, 1000 BCE, when there is no science, no understanding of Earth as a round planet circling the sun, nothing but scattered populations of people doing their best to survive. Atsa wants the crown so he can improve the lives of his clan and to help spread his clan's desire for love and peace. Bon and Atsa form a partnership of sorts to find the Crown. They share many adventures and establish the first true friendship between the two planets. Their vibrational difference prohibits any physical contact, so Bon remains in his artificially maintained Zone of Influence on Earth, safely at Shonak's vibration, and visits Atsa using a human-looking bot which Atsa sees as a god, since he has no frame of reference for technology of any kind. Read about their many amazing adventures in search for the Crown and witness what happens when they find it. The surprising end to this book will enchant every reader with an open mind and a love for this genre.