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Many Worlds - Robert West Author

Many Worlds

Hello there! Welcome to my world, or, at least, to one of them.

Do you know why I named my website “The Many Worlds of Robert West”?

As you might notice from the menu on my website, I have written a variety of stories in several genres—adventures for kids, mysteries, biographies, historical novels and science fiction. These are all kinds of stories that I enjoy reading.

That takes us to the answer to my question. Not only have I written in multiple genres, each of my books is set in a different world.  That seems pretty obvious if we’re talking about my fantasy/sci-fi/adventure trilogy, The Star-Fighters of Murphy Street.  The Star-Fighter kids warp out to many worlds in their tree house/spaceship.

But I am talking about worlds in a broader sense. It is not surprising, really, that many of the planets in the Star Wars saga: i.e. Hoth, Tatooine, Dagobah, and the forest moon of Endor are based upon places like Antarctica, Death Valley, the Everglades, and the redwood forests of northern California—all of which are found right here on Earth.

Yep, you don’t need warp drive to explore other worlds. We have lots of worlds very different from each other all over Earth. My biography, Saint Francis, for example, is set in Italy. Americans vacation in Italy because it’s like a different world from the one in which we live. Then, if you shift time a little—800 years in the case of Francis—you have another world very different from modern-day Italy. In a sense we can travel to an infinite number of worlds without leaving Earth.

I like to explore worlds on and off our home planet. The way the inhabitants of each world live, the way they deal with physical, social and spiritual conflict. Recreating the look of the homes, cities, and countryside can be fascinating. What’s more, from a writer’s standpoint, understanding the world where your characters live opens up a deeper dimension to the characters, bringing their, beliefs, choices and conflicts into much better focus.

The book that I have just finished is a mystery which takes place in two worlds—the first in current day Charleston, South Carolina and the second in the same city, 150 years earlier, just before the Civil War. The differences between those two worlds are many—cultural, economic, social, and more. When we look back to the earlier time, we generally focus on slavery, but the differences in the lives of women between then and now are also astounding.  I spent 5 years researching Charleston in an effort to depict life in both time periods as accurately and colorfully as possible so that readers might better understand how passionate people in two eras can be caught up in life-threatening crises which, in this case, prove to be linked together.

 Another of my books—a historical novel—is set in ancient Israel about three thousand years ago—in the last years of King Solomon’s reign. Although very little of that world still exists, I spent more than a year trying to learn how mothers, fathers, children, merchants, farmers, kings, queens, prophets, etc. might have lived in that time and place. I wanted to recreate, as closely as possible, the look and feel of those times—to put readers into each scene.  These details also helped me to identify the conflicts and motives that drive the characters.

Children of the Silicon God, is a science fiction novel set here and now—or at least, so it seems in the beginning.  It is a romance between a college student and a celebrated professor . . . or is it? It’s one thing for lovers to break up . . . but quite another when one of them denies even having known the other. Which one of them is delusional . . . or lying and why? Their struggle to determine the truth leads to a world far different from anything they have ever imagined . . . and an astounding discovery about who they really are.

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Time after Time - Robert West Author

Time after Time

Hi Folks,

This is going to be a very short blog. . . .

Bye Folks!

Just kidding!

Can you hear me? It’s awfully loud out there these days. A universal volume control might be worth millions the way everyone is screaming for or against just about everything.  The biggest issue in American history, of course, was slavery. We went to war over that one—the bloodiest war in American history. More Americans died in that war than in WWI and WWII combined.  Southerners often call it “the war between the states.” The rest of us call it the “Civil War.”

My latest book, Echo in the Wind, is set in Charleston, South Carolina. It was there, you know, that the Civil War began 155 years ago.

The Mystery Today

The major portion of the book is set in Charleston here and now.  Lauren Elliston, a member of one of Charleston’s elite families, is the victim of a vicious crime, but her body is missing and she is presumed dead. Many branches of law enforcement pool their resources to find her and apprehend her attacker.  Special circumstances bring  Kelley Bryant, a former FBI investigator forcibly retired after a critical injury, into the case. The case goes nowhere until this former agent finds a connection to a crime buried in the past.

A Mystery Long Ago

A second story line follows the life of a girl growing up in Charleston during the years preceding the Civil War. She grows up, not only in the same city as our missing victim, but in the same house, on the same plantation and in the same family from which our victim is descended.

I spent several years studying what it was like to live in Charleston both today and in the years preceding the Civil War—the plantations, elegant ladies in hoop skirts, men dueling to the death, grand balls and lavish garden parties. . . . And, of course, slave auctions.

Issues for Women

There were, however, other issues besides slavery, many of them involving women’s issues. Compared to those days, the women of today are as free as birds in the sky.

Are people just Things?

But what ties these stories together is a broader issue—Objectification. Objectification is a big word for treating a person like an object or a thing.  If you think about that word, you will realize that it is behind many evils, including slavery, crime, labor conflicts, bullying relationships and the mistreatment of women.

“Echo in the Wind,” is work of fiction, not an expose of social issues, but aspects of all these issues are depicted in the dual time frames as part of the story.  I hope you will enjoy the colorful and passionate characters in both stories as they romance, battle and strive to make sense of the startling revelations and realizations they encounter on the way to an explosive conclusion.

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