"...reminiscent of sagas like Dune and Foundation..." -Cinescape

...The risk of unleashing the Drive on humanity was deemed unacceptable. But the Survey’s architects devised a means by which they might safely usher mankind into its new age: the Interim. A legion of sociologists and historians, anthropologists and philosophers, adventurers and administrators, these sole keepers and users of translight would undertake the enormous task of uniting the scattered outposts of humanity into a peaceful, star-spanning Commonwealth...
                                            --Commonwealth primary school text

"...[N]o fewer than twenty-one planetary civilizations have suffered extinction or near-extinction since the inception of the Interim alone. Another thirty have descended into anarchy. Perhaps worse still, there exist human societies in our cosmos in which women and ethnic minorities are treated as chattel; where lives are dominated by ancient tribal allegiances; where wholesale slaughter erupts over resources so mundane as water; where a petty clash between chieftains can blossom into world war. Imagine if such madness as infects those worlds were allowed to touch any peace-loving member of the Commonwealth."
                                                     --Adm. Karina Althauser (ret)

INTERIM is a novel of epic space opera.  In 2003 it won first prize in Cinescape Magazine's Genre Literary Competition .  It is currently in search of representation or a suitable publisher.

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