August 28 and 29 Chuck will be attending CopperCon28 held in Embasy Suites Phoenix-Scottsdale. Chuck will be reading from Evolution's Child and giving seminars on various aspects of modern science.
“Evolution’s Child” explores a future where fundamentalists wage ideological warfare across the face of the Earth, while on the Moon a new society is evolving, one where the sanctity of all life is cherished. Well, you know those fundamentalists, they just can’t leave well enough alone and decide to bring their struggle to Moon, threatening all that has been achieved.
All of the books were fun reads as part of the Lunar Library Moon Fiction review project. “Moon Quake” is published as part of Apogee Books ‘Science Faction’ series of books, and would be considered the hardest science of the works, in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke. “Moon Blog” is rather contemporary, (especially since I know some of the folks at CoLab, an open-source collaboration out at NASA Ames) but then so is “Evolution’s Child”. Ultimately, I’d have to say that “Evolution’s Child” is the most fully developed from a number of perspectives, from philosophical to a not unbelievable future technological society. So while it can be considered controversial, it is at least an explored and reasoned controversy, not a reactionary one. “Evolution’s Child” is the Best of the Moon Fiction of 2007.
Evolution’s Child, the debut novel by Charles Lesher, is pure speculative fiction. Within a framework of believable technology, Evolution's Child examines religion and the role it will play in humanities future, taking the reader on a wild ride through the late 21st century, seventy years after the first lights began burning on the darkside of the moon.
"Speculative fiction is the imagination of the human race. We depend upon it to light up the darkness and open up the debate about what is possible. Evolution’s Child is not the next Mars Attack, which I loved, but serious fiction set in the near future about the people and societies who will evolve from the first lunar colonies." ...Charles Lesher
Evolution’s Child, the debut novel by Charles Lesher, is pure speculative fiction. Within a framework of believable technology, Evolution's Child examines religion and the role it will play in humanities future, taking the reader on a wild ride through the late 21st century, seventy years after the first lights began burning on the darkside of the moon.