A story whose characters you’ll fall in love with. The first volume in the This World series tells a tale of survival on a devastated planet where our naked heroes go to war against a tyrant who threatens to steal their souls. Grab hold of a good seat and, before you start reading, get ready to stay put for a while. Go with this zany cast while they set out to right the wrongs of This World and rescue She from the Tyrant of Lakeland's evil clutches. Experience Laughter, dismay, and quirky twists while the human race starts over with nothing more than the remnants of a previous civilization. Go with this zany cast while they set out to right the wrongs of This World and rescue She from the Tyrant of Lakeland’s evil clutches. Experience laughter, shock, and quirky twists while the human race learns to start over with nothing more than the remnants of a previous civilization. Prehistory: A chunk left over from a much larger planet that blew itself apart millenniums ago, This World circles its star in the same path that planet once occupied. Its dimensions measure about eight thousand by four thousand kilometers, and maybe five hundred kilometers in thickness, all guesses, more than half of the inhabited side being covered by salty water.Sure, there’s not much air to breathe, the gravity has only a portion of the effect of the original planet, and not much can grow in the deserts which cover the lands. Its inhabitants have no knowledge of that. They have evolved through the thousands of years since The Great Catastrophe into what they have now become. Things remain the way they are and have been through the oldest generations still alive. Anything that used to be is now a matter of myth and legend, all of which seem too preposterous for most of our characters to award them much credence.It appears obvious that, since the distance to the center of This World is much greater from any of its edges than it is from anywhere on the known landed portion, the pull of gravity is correspondingly stronger at the outer reaches of The Sea. Being in a direction toward the center, the pull of gravity also causes sea water to be pulled inward instead of just falling off the edge. Boats striving to reach the edge must overcome gravity pulling them back toward shore, just like rocketships must overcome it to leave the ground on our round world. Boats away out on the ocean begin to float at an angle which increases as they get closer to the edge, according to rumors circulating about on This World. We don't need to know all that, except to get a picture of This World as we follow its cast through the plot. We'll eventually learn that it is a plot, and one that may have been hatching in This World's politics for generations as its residents struggle to get the IQ system dumped in favor of their own AQ system. Oh, but telling that would spoil the ending.
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