William E. Mason

Please visit my website at www.williamemason.com for more information. Video trailers for all five novels can be viewed on youtube.com at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCi2WFLiT0ktk8G65WejNzQ Series Title: PRIMORDIUM: A primordium is the simplest set of cells capable of triggering growth of the would-to-be organ and the initial foundation from which an organ is able to grow. (Wikipedia) Series Premise: Mankind's humanity is a mistake. Stolen DNA planted in an ancient hominid enables hominids to evolve as conscious beings, culminating in Homo sapiens, creatures not meant to be, but creatures capable of curiosity and wonder. They look out at a closed universe they were not meant to see nor have the intelligence to comprehend. Series Context: When the balance is upset between Gilomir and Zug, a dynamic dualism of good and evil, yin and yang, order and chaos, the guardian seeks to rehabilitate Gilomir by transporting his DNA into an anomalous zone (our universe) that is embedded in their greater universe. In the anomalous zone, all world lines are closed‑timelike‑curves (CTCs - a pathological solution to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity discovered by Kurt Godel in 1949). CTCs have neither beginning nor end, but cycle endlessly. Four Novels: The story in each novel is told from a human point of view, which follows the lives of human characters as they interact and cope with events beyond their control. Settings: All four novels are set in northern Kenya, near Lake Turkana but during different epochs and climates. Reformation: 1985 A.D. - Climate: Semi-arid Renaissance: 7,000 A.D. - Climate: Tropical Wet (Renaissance begins in the present, but soon jumps to 7,000 A.D.) Requiem : 10,000 A.D. - Climate: Arctic Resurrection: 6 million years ago - Climate: Tropical Wet and Dry I live in Monument, Colorado with my wife Ulla on 10 acres of trees and red sandstone outcroppings at an elevation of 7,400 feet above sea level. We have two sons and six grandchildren. I was born in 1943 while my father was at Yale University obtaining his Doctorate in Anthropology, hence my upbringing and the basis of the anthropological themes in my writing. My family subsequently moved to Hawaii where I lived until attending Verde Valley School, Sedona, Arizona, then to college at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, then to the Harvard Graduate School of Design. After graduate school I joined the Peace Corps and was stationed as an architect in Tunis, Tunisia. Subsequently, I worked as a professional architect in New York, Nigeria, Hawaii and Saudi Arabia. When I am not writing, I enjoy hiking Colorado Fourteeners, biking, cooking, remodeling my house, and playing the guitar. I have a tractor for the woods, use a chainsaw regularly and play tennis at a 4.0 USTA level. My favorite song is Hotel California.