S Dorman

Each summer weekend can be like a holiday here in Maine. Once, to the Vikings, it was rugged Vineland; today Maine is Vacationland. After a hard, dirty winter, mild air and watery sunlit places are calling: an abundance of evocative coastal places within a couple minutes' or couple of hours' drive. The author experienced one beach not typical of Maine. It was different in a lively way. She and her spouse, Allen, drove to Auburn for groceries and suddenly decided--over lunch in the Nickel Diner--to go visit Old Orchard Beach before grocery shopping.Old Orchard Beach has long been a resort town, situated in a curve of Saco Bay and full of mechanized carnival life, its waterfront crammed with screaming or jovial activity, shimmering in sunlight. After a search in side streets full of summer lodgings and cars, the travelers locate a place to park, then walk down to the sea--down to "Maine on the Mediterranean."

Maine in Winter bears toward the new millennium and beyond, heading into maturity of body, soul, and insight. Here are thoughts and experiences from entries in S. Dorman's everyday winter and reader's journals. Here are themes of snowy twilight since stopping in Maine, just so, at the beginning of her family's first winter in the Northeast--when the Salvation Army came to their rescue, and the in-laws, and their old friend God. After midlife and reflecting on the Big Winter--what is sometimes called Old Age--this book cycles back toward the beginning, to a flight in celebration of the New Year, new life in Maine.

The Essays comprise "neophyte papers, "familiarizing papers," and "the thesis paper." Here called a Triologue, the book is devoted to essays published specifically for "Fantastic Travelogue: Mark Twain and CS Lewis Talk Things over in The Hereafter," this fiction being the raison d'etre for the thesis paper. One of these essays was published in Extrapolation, Spring 2007, a second in Mythprint, bulletin 341 of the Mythopoeic Society. See also the digital version at various other online venues.

Looking for understanding and adventure, two giants of English literature-the fictional Jack Lewis and Mark Twain-meet as if by accident to begin an exploration ranging through Great Creation and the imagined supernatural. They experience aspects of the astronomical, of terrestrial geography and biology, and of Western cultural history. Two others take part in their conversation, Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler and Scots romanticist George MacDonald. By the author of The God's Cycle, Gott'im's Monster, and Five Points Akropolis. This edition has an author's introduction.

Fantastic Travelogue is speculative fiction, a phantasmic conversation between two literary giants, Mark Twain and C.S. Lewis. The talk and action are set in the dreamscape of creation--from creation's photonics and micro biology to its most outer energetic and cosmic origins. Other participants in the conversation include the Renaissance humanist and astronomer Johannes Kepler and the 19th century Scots romanticist George MacDonald. Together, rarely dropping the thread of story-telling and argumentation, throughout time and creation they range, sometimes losing themselves in the mystery and splendors encountered. By the author of Five Points Akropolis and The God's Cycle. Now with an introduction.

DuOPolis is speculative fiction about three young ""gangs"" living in the same territory in different times. These youths hail from circa Anno Domini 1769, 1900 A.D. and 2017 CE. By an aberration in Time they meet unexpectedly in the 21st century neighborhood of FivePoints to engage with one another and untie the knot of Time. Inadvertent time-travelers, each group is trying to get ""home"" again. Both Time and Place are necessary. Place alone cannot make them a home. These displaced teenagers are not complex but savvy and often funny. The 2017 time travelers' reappearance have mystified adult friends whose various jobs play key roles in helping them. Apocalyptic allusions make this tale into biblical fan fiction. The story is a fun, often satirical, lively, and intricate time-traveler-gently and sometimes powerfully told. S. Dorman is author of FivePoints Akropolis, Gott'im's Monster 1808, The God's Cycle, and Fantastic Travelogue.

GOTT'IM'S MONSTER 1808 is coming-of-age speculative fiction. A New England Gothic recasting of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Gott'im's Monster is part of The God's Cycle and is set in the mountains of Western Maine, 1808. Its fantastic elements sparse in beginning, The God's Cycle moves through its story in time and place with increasing mythic emphasis. This version of Gott'im's Monster is abridged, leaving out the townsfolk "chorus" of its1980s frame, within which the original 1808 story is pictured. Gott'im's Monster 1808 is the more compact tale.