Easing Into the Sequel

When we left Bob, he was dead, something of a setback for an immortal who had lived 10,000 years, but Jack, the guy in the white room, had told him he was going to become a god, a promotion of sorts for all the easings he had done. Archie has been handed the baton for easing, and after the baton and time's passing, it was found to come with a perk, immortality.

Upon Bob's demise, the Universe aligned to its new reality. He's been gone 200 years and Archie has relocated to Mars where he works at Musk City's Unsolved Crimes division. Archie has settled into his immortality, his subtle nature belying the effects he's had on mankind for two centuries.

All the gods that ever existed have disappeared, but the replacement team is in and their paths cross at the Mar's spaceport where Archie is picking up a new employee. Jack is back, the combination platter of the gods. Bob is coming off his 200-year hiatus. There's a computer collective, HAL, that's promoted to god and replaces Jobs, Gates, Turing, and the other computer gods, and the God Gene, aka James, a combination of energy and biological matter, a lab-created god.

Archie is bestowed godhood, he was found to be a lightning rod for truth, justice, and the American way, his being constantly aligned, plumb with what was right and just, his moral compass unwavering, fused with the Universe in a way that gets Fate and the All's attention.

He's also had 200 years to think about Rose. His godhood becomes the wager in a high-stakes gamble to make up for all he had done to her when he gets a lead on the means and latches onto it like chrome on a trailer hitch ball.

The gods worshipped today aren't the ones our ancient relatives prayed to. How many gods have been replaced since the beginning of mankind leaving the Volcano Gods and their ilk left in the lurch, gods real to their believers until as time passed they were lost in history, not even memories left? Just because a god is forgotten, can it go away, can you just dispose of a god? Where do gods go when they die? (I ask these questions so you don't have to.)

The Sequel includes:

All the gods ever worshipped by man, together for the first time (not all have speaking parts).

The story of the big bang, a ruckus romp through the widespread devastation that was our beginning challenging the Universe's pucker power. "It boiled out like when you mix vinegar and baking soda but to a somewhat exacerbated degree, an instantaneous release of roiling energy."

Introducing Fate, Time, and the All, a look into the business end of their operation with peeks into Fate's plane of existence.

Excerpt: "The skies have been my life, but I see nothing in this one I've ever seen before," said Michio Kaku. "This is not the physics we know. It is some inside out, backward, unbalanced version, but quantified by its being-I exist, therefore I am. It cannot be denied what stares into our faces every moment of our existence, we just don't know what that is." Einstein stood puffing on his pipe and shaking his head, all his quantifications amounted to a hill of black holes in this sky.

Yankee Stadium, back when baseball was 'The' game and some players elevated to gods, Mantle and Marris with DiMaggio on deck in a peek in time.

Wannabe-Watson programs allow a semblance of conversation with computers in the year 2222, so Archie engages his car's computer delivering convoluted life lessons.

The WABAC Machine, pulled from the annals of history (that must have hurt) and delivered by Fate to . . . you'll have to read the book to see.

An urban fantasy detective sci-fi romance novel for adults.

The setting is Mars and the atmosphere is thin but there's just enough to tie up all the loose ends from Easing into the Night, the Sequel a noble tale light in gravity, a fun romp through the Universe. Dare to enjoy!