Coming of Age: Volume 2: Endless Conflict
Hope for Peace, Prepare for War The Italian proverb says, "Hold your friends close, but your enemies even closer." Sometimes you must hold family closest of all. As John Praxis and Antigone Wells benefit from the life-extending techniques of regenerative medicine to enter that unknown space beyond the traditional enfeeblements of old age, they discover that the endless conflicts of family, business, and politics still pursue them. In her efforts to secure financing for the revived Praxis Engineering & Construction Company, John's daughter Callie has brought a viper into the nest who will follow them through two generations. But the Praxis family has vipers of its own, as John's second son Richard returns from Texas to install new intelligent software that will spy on their operations. Along with these local adversities, the family must also cope with political reverberations from the Second Civil War, dislocations from an untimely Bay Area earthquake, and the disaster of a mid-continent volcanic eruption followed by political collapse and foreign invasion. Volume 2 of Coming of Age is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of personal challenges and social changes. John, Antigone, Callie, and their family members become strangers-both to themselves and to each other-in a world that is only partly of their own making.
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Coming of Age: Volume 2: Endless Conflict
Hope for Peace, Prepare for War The Italian proverb says, "Hold your friends close, but your enemies even closer." Sometimes you must hold family closest of all. As John Praxis and Antigone Wells benefit from the life-extending techniques of regenerative medicine to enter that unknown space beyond the traditional enfeeblements of old age, they discover that the endless conflicts of family, business, and politics still pursue them. In her efforts to secure financing for the revived Praxis Engineering & Construction Company, John's daughter Callie has brought a viper into the nest who will follow them through two generations. But the Praxis family has vipers of its own, as John's second son Richard returns from Texas to install new intelligent software that will spy on their operations. Along with these local adversities, the family must also cope with political reverberations from the Second Civil War, dislocations from an untimely Bay Area earthquake, and the disaster of a mid-continent volcanic eruption followed by political collapse and foreign invasion. Volume 2 of Coming of Age is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of personal challenges and social changes. John, Antigone, Callie, and their family members become strangers-both to themselves and to each other-in a world that is only partly of their own making.
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Coming of Age: Volume 2: Endless Conflict

Coming of Age: Volume 2: Endless Conflict

by Thomas T Thomas
Coming of Age: Volume 2: Endless Conflict

Coming of Age: Volume 2: Endless Conflict

by Thomas T Thomas

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Hope for Peace, Prepare for War The Italian proverb says, "Hold your friends close, but your enemies even closer." Sometimes you must hold family closest of all. As John Praxis and Antigone Wells benefit from the life-extending techniques of regenerative medicine to enter that unknown space beyond the traditional enfeeblements of old age, they discover that the endless conflicts of family, business, and politics still pursue them. In her efforts to secure financing for the revived Praxis Engineering & Construction Company, John's daughter Callie has brought a viper into the nest who will follow them through two generations. But the Praxis family has vipers of its own, as John's second son Richard returns from Texas to install new intelligent software that will spy on their operations. Along with these local adversities, the family must also cope with political reverberations from the Second Civil War, dislocations from an untimely Bay Area earthquake, and the disaster of a mid-continent volcanic eruption followed by political collapse and foreign invasion. Volume 2 of Coming of Age is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit in the face of personal challenges and social changes. John, Antigone, Callie, and their family members become strangers-both to themselves and to each other-in a world that is only partly of their own making.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780984965861
Publisher: Thomas Thurston Thomas
Publication date: 09/23/2014
Series: Coming of Age , #2
Pages: 378
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Thomas T. Thomas is a writer with a career spanning forty years in book editing, technical writing, public relations, and popular fiction writing. Among his various careers, he has worked at a university press, a tradebook publisher, an engineering and construction company, a public utility, an oil refinery, a pharmaceutical company, and a supplier of biotechnology instruments and reagents. He published eight novels and collaborations in science fiction with Baen Books and is now working on more general and speculative fiction. When he's not working and writing, he may be out riding his motorcycle, practicing karate, or wargaming with friends. Catch up with him at www.thomastthomas.com.
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