The Man who owned the Earth" uses three very different sets of characters. The two academics with which the story opens soon yields the stage to the persona of a mysterious storyteller, before it finally widens its perspective into the vision of an ancient kingdom under an unusual ruler. Likewise, the story flits from the timeframe of the present into a thousand year old past. Through the conflation of contrasting characters and eras, it attains depth and perspective. The central character of the story is king Ram Pal of Vithalla. A Buddha like figure, he is a complex personage who is obliged to alternate between conflicting roles - that of a scholar and a king who is alive to his responsibilities to deliver his people from a poverty ridden serfdom. A second strand to the story is the unravelling of the riddle with which the story opens. As the story develops, we see how the unusual character of the king is responsible for its unexpected explanation.
A superman who flies across the whole world and breaks the rocks with his naked hands or a human being with a highly developed mind and consciousness bordering on to telepathy. A K Vijaykumar's debutant science fiction 'year 7007 - Fable of a Forgotten Planet' answers this question. Writer A K Vijaykumar, with a very engaging story explores the thesis propounded by Sri Aurobindo that the next step in the evolutionary ladder would be in the realm of spirit - specifically, in the acquisition of powers like telepathy. Year 7007 is a great page turner suspense and a thought provoking mesmerizing tale set on a stage thousands of years into the future as the name suggests. The story addresses the central mystery that the mind is much more than an assembly of neurons and neural circuitory. This is specially true of those who accept spiritual tenets, a taut psychological fiction, Year 7007 is a superb blend of edge-of-your-seat suspense and thought provoking commentary on the direction of scientific research and human limitations. The back drop of this book takes us into a world where, humankind has spread out and colonized space. The march of science and technology has conquered the disease, aging-and even death. The species has established itself on countless millions of worlds. There is, however, a lone exception, largely unnoticed at the fringe of this swarming human hive. The planet zenmahaily, that sinks gradually into oblivion. When finally rediscovered through an accident, does not seem too willing to be brought into the comity of worlds.
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