Season of the Serpent: Book One (edit title/settings)

Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit see section history

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Paul David Venturi: Add a description of this character.
• Eric Ratkovich
• Vincent Venturi
• Trudy Tinsley
• Claude Clarke
• Randy Wilcox
• Jon Cates
• Lucas Crowe
• Mark Tinsley
• Laura
• Janus
• Dar'Winn
• Dar'Amon Goth
• Dar'Viathan
• Dar ' Belphegor
• A'Meric
• Dar'Luxor
• Lord Angra Mainyu
• Luke
• Ronald Reagan
• Serpent
• Eric Gairy
• Paul Atredies
• Alice
• Dorothy
• S. R. Maritan
• Fudd
• Cain

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• “At the close of the twentieth century, the laws of Darwin still applied. It was time to turn the boy loose on the world, or more appropriately, turn the world loose on the boy.”

• “Because the Universe acts as a mirror, it will align itself closer and closer to your own expectations just as quantum particles take their cue from their observer. Ultimately, the Universe will either lead you down a very dark rabbit hole or lead you towards a glorious inner light. … Sometimes an entire world can find itself falling down a rabbit hole.”

• “'You monkeys have it all backwards. We were never trying to get you kicked out of Paradise. That’s the distortion. We’ve been trying to help you get back in. The truth is you’re prisoners in this greenhouse, and you don’t even know it.'”

  A'Meric

• “As a multi-dimensional being, she could skillfully execute a ceremonial role while secretly interrogating a subordinate at the same time. In the Realm of Yin'Dru, multi-tasking was an essential survival skill.”

Setting & Locations edit see section history

• A large State University in southwest Virginia
• The Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC
• The Realm of Yin'Dru, on the Astral Plane

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Glossary edit see section history

• Yin'Dru: A multi-dimensional realm on the Astral Plane of planet Earth.
• Yang'Ash: An multi-dimensional realm on the Astral Plane of planet Earth.
• Chariot: An Inter-Dimensional Transport Vehicles, IDTV, a craft that generates its own inter-dimensional portal and travels between the various dimensions of Earth. They are often mistaken for UFOs.
• Advent Stream: The communication media of Yin'Dru. A series of telepathic channels that broadcasts important news about simulation events on Earth.
• New Bedlam: The current capital city of Yin'Dru, under the directorship of Regent-Chairman Dar'Winn and the Division of Public Representation.
• Dark Side of the Rainbow: Also known as Dark Side of Oz or The Wizard of Floyd – refers to the pairing of the 1973 Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon with the visual portion of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. This produces moments where the film and the album appear to correspond with each other. The title of the music video-like experience comes from a combination of the album title and the film's song "Over the Rainbow". Band members and others involved in the making of the album state that any relationship between the two works of art is merely a coincidence.
• synchronicity: is the experience of two or more events that are apparently causally unrelated or unlikely to occur together by chance, yet are experienced as occurring together in a meaningful manner. The concept of synchronicity was first described in this terminology by Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist, in the 1920s. The concept does not question, or compete with, the notion of causality. Instead it maintains that, just as events may be grouped by cause, they may also be grouped by meaning. A grouping of events by meaning need not have an explanation in terms of cause and effect.
• Gnosticism: is a modern scholarly term for a set of religious beliefs and spiritual practices found among some of the early Christian groups called "gnostic" ("learned") by Irenaeus and other early Christian heresiologists. The term also has reference to parallels and possible pre-Christian influences of the Christian gnostics. A common characteristic of some of these groups was the teaching that the realisation of Gnosis (esoteric or intuitive knowledge), is the way to salvation of the soul from the material world. They saw the material world as created through an intermediary being (demiurge) rather than directly by God.
• Demiurge: is a concept for an artisan-like figure responsible for the fashioning and maintenance of the physical universe. Although a fashioner, the demiurge is not necessarily thought of as being the same as the creator figure in the familiar monotheistic sense, because both the demiurge itself plus the material from which the demiurge fashions the universe are considered either uncreated and eternal, or the product of some other being, depending on the system. In the arch-dualist ideology of the various Gnostic systems, the material universe is evil, while the non-material world is good. Accordingly, the demiurge is malevolent, as linked to the material world.

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

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• The Garden of Eden: This novel is a modern re-imagining of the Biblical Garden of Eden story set during the Cold War crisis of the early 1980s.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. David Nova (Author)

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Drug and alcohol use, sparse profanity, mild sexuality, crude humor, college hazing and bullying, minimal violence, controversial subject matters, religious and spiritual speculation.

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Contemporary
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Science Fiction › Alternate History
• Books › Literature & Fiction

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• davidnova.com: Author website - learn more about the author and the book: including "The Dark Side of the Rainbow," Synchronicity, story inspiration, music, research, and the characters.