"Another Sandy Nathan classic! Aldous Huxley meets Orson Scott Card in this sci-fi thriller with political undertones. If Nathan had written a 300-page non-fiction polemic on nuclear non-proliferation, rising sea levels, and government/media censorship, I might have learned as much, but it wouldn't have been the page-turner that is The Angel."
Nathan Fisher MBA Stanford Graduate School of Business
The haunting story of a teenage boy and an intergalactic traveler faced with the task of saving two worlds.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Of the special genre of books and films that include 1984, A Brave New World, and The Prisoner Series, The Angel takes the reader to a dark future world that’s not so different from our own. In the late 22nd century, people are continually watched, disappearing off the streets and from their homes. A shadowy but all-powerful government calls the shots; war rages while the authorities proclaim the Great Peace.
All is not bad in this fictional realm, for the angelic extraterrestrial, Eliana, appears on the streets on New York City on a mission to save her planet. As radiant and pure as the world around her is tarnished, Eliana must find the Golden Boy. He turns out to be Jeremy Edgarton, a tech genius on a planet where technology is outlawed, a revolutionary, and the FBI’s most wanted. They find themselves caught up in an explosive adventure when Jeremy decodes new transmissions and discovers that a nuclear holocaust will take place the next morning.
The themes of The Angel read like pure sci-fi, but author Sandy Nathan explains, “I’m a former economist. While the love story between Jeremy and Eliana enchants, the back-story––the hideous world around them––is the product of my economist’s mind interacting with current events. We’re in the worst economic melt-down since the 1930’s, with no end in sight. Some events in The Angel are based directly upon history. For instance, Germany’s economic distress during the Great Depression is one factor contributing to the rise of Adolf Hitler. Could a totalitarian government arise from our current conditions? Maybe. The Angel’s world is just a heartbeat from our own. In writing The Angel, I wanted to entertain my readers and challenge them to discover solutions.”
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Eliana made her way along the sidewalk, knowing that she was dirty, feeling the grit in her hair and on her skin. When she had reached the Planets's atmosphere, clothes and all sorts of things had rushed at her with great force, tossing her over and over. Dirt had come, too. She'd found the clothes she needed and put them on the way her teachers had shown her. Then her people had put her where she was . . .
NEW YORK CITY ON THE EVER OF ARMAGEDDON, IN THE LATE 22ND CENTRUY––PERHAPS
Mistaken for a Russian ballet dancer, Eliana finds her destination –the Hermitage Academy, a famous high school for the arts. Soon she discovers that this Earth is a strange and violent place, where some people live in fear, and where her very presence makes some want to protect her and others want to hurt her.
'It is a century after the second Russian revolution, when technology was outlawed and Tsar Yuri took over most of the world, ushering in the "Great Pease." For the U.S. president, Lincoln Charles, pease is doable––just focus on the positive, project a trustworthy images, and make sure that dissenters are taken care of quietly, permanently.
Something terrible, though, is about to happen; and for Eliana, not much time remains to find the "Golden Boy."
NATIONAL AWARD WINNER!
2011 IPPY (Independent Press) Awards Gold Medal in Visionary Fiction: The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy
2011 National Indie Excellence Award Winner in Visionary Fiction: The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy
Best Books of 2011, USA Book News: The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy
Winner: Fiction, New Age: The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy
Finalist: Fiction: Fantasy/Sci-Fi: The Angel & the Brown-eyed Boy
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