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Jul 31, 2012
Charlinder's Walk
Summary
In our very first fiction-book interview on New Books in Secularism, we chat with Alyson Miers, author of Charlinder's Walk (CreateSpace, 2011). In this adventure secularism-themed novel, Miers introduces us to Charlinder, a curious and daring young man who lives in the year 2130. The world he lives in is vastly different from the one we know today. Due to a plague that swept the earth and killed most of its inhabitants in 2010, Charlinder lives in a time where modern technology is gone, communities are isolated from each other, and surviving winter is once again a struggle. Why the earth succumbed to such a devastating plague over 100 years because is a cause for tension in his village of Paleola. On one hand there are those called the Faithful, who argue that the plague was God's punishment for the evil deeds of human beings, whereas the rest of their small population is skeptical. Worried about rising disagreements and what it means for his village - Charlinder sets out on a world trek to find out the truth, with very surprising consequences.
It is difficult to put this book down once you start reading it, as Miers is very adept at transporting us into a world that is hard to imagine - a world without most of us in it.
Miers' blog is called The Monster's Ink, and she is also on Facebook, Goodreads, and Twitter.
