Press Release: 'A Place Beyond Man' Re-released as 'The View Beyond Earth'
Update to 1975 science fiction novel even more relevant today
November 6, 2014
First contact with aliens. A love triangle. The search to understand ourselves and our differences. Playing out against a backdrop of core questions about mankind's caretaking role on Earth, these themes from Cary Neeper's 1975 novel A Place Beyond Man remain equally relevant—and even more urgent—today. The story is available again, newly revised and updated as The View Beyond Earth.
"Rewriting A Place Beyond Man was great fun," Neeper said, "a challenge in preserving the expression of passions that drove the environmental movement of the '70s."
The first in The Archives of Varok series, this young-adult/crossover science fiction title introduces microbiologist Tandra Grey, who is among the first to learn that humankind is not alone in the Solar System. She must choose whether to trust or fear her new allies—two off world species, disturbingly human but altogether alien.
"Tandra's personal growth remains the focus of the story," Neeper said, "as a metaphor for our maturing human identity."
A fine multi-cultural, multi-species First Contact along with a siren call to stop 'trashing our planet' in pursuit of profit and status. Bravo!
—Science fiction author T. Jackson King, on Goodreads.com
Cary Neeper has created not one but two credible non-human species.... It's an engrossing first novel.
—Psychology Today, New York, on the original 1975 release
Contact
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Readers can begin the books today; free preview chapters are available online at ArchivesofVarok.com.
Dr. Cary Neeper is an avid student of sustainability, steady-state economics and the impact of cosmology and complexity on issues of science and religion. Her writing includes the Archives of Varok novels, two musical science fiction comedies, and articles on exobiology for Astronaut.com. She studied zoology/chemistry and religion at Pomona College and earned her doctorate in medical microbiology at U. Wisconsin–Madison. The Neepers raised their family in northern New Mexico with a friendly menagerie of dogs, fish and fowl. Dr. Neeper also paints landscapes in acrylics, including the cover art for the most recent Archives of Varok editions.
Online Press Kit
Find press-ready photos, cover images and more in the online press kit for The View Beyond Earth.