RURAL ODYSSEY VII

RURAL ODYSSEY VII Or What Is to Come continues the Rural Odyssey series making fiction of real life and now science fiction. It tells of Mike and Mariah O'Brien back in Abilene working at Dwight D. Eisenhower College. Mike heads "Kansas and Southwest Studies" and Mariah is Dean of Women and Counseling plus teaching one course in American Literature. Daughter Ariel is a freshman in high school. Life goes on with old friends but with some disturbing circumstances from old KKK people. What is new is the "novella" of science fiction loosely based on the 1951 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still." Klaatu from the galaxy and planet of Tarog lands his command saucer on the old farm and proceeds with his plan for the O'Brien family, Planet Earth and Tarog. Mark J. Curran is Professor Emeritus from Arizona State University where he worked from 1968 to 2011. He has written fifty-five books, eight from academic circles before retirement, forty-seven with author publishing since retirement. Color cover images and summaries of the books appear on his website: www.currancordelconnecton.com. His e-mail address is: profmark@asu.edu. The books run the gamut from travel, teaching and research in Spain and Portugal and Latin America in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and especially Brazil. Also, there are accounts as cultural speaker on LEX-National Geographic Explorer trips, autobiographic books from the farm near Abilene, Kansas, and Jesuit education, and the fictionalization of all the above.,