Journey to Disappeared: Discovery

By Map Whitman

Will the future destroy our civilization? Will the Earth revolt against the demons humanity has unleashed? Will humans transform themselves to rebuild a more compassionate society? Would you? Or is it already too late?

The rising storms of corporate greed, peak oil, climate change, pollution, species extinction, new viruses, and over-population have wrought an apocalypse in the not-too-distant future. Life there is recognizable, and yet a hauntingly contradictory blend of high tech and horse-and-buggy. Living on the precipice of this apocalypse, Alma and her brother Uly toil to maintain a mountain homestead safely tucked away from the pitiless corporations which control what remains of a technologically advanced civilization. There, Uly’s mysterious panic attacks might go unnoticed by everyone but his family. But then their parents, working for a corporation to study a virus that attacks the human genetic code, join the long lists of people who have inexplicably Disappeared.

Their mountain paradise shattered, Alma and Uly must make a choice. Do they hobble along in relative safety without their parents? Or do they risk a journey to Disappeared, knowing the corporation will send assassins to stop them? Their extraordinary odyssey through rugged mountains, parched high deserts, dangerous squatter towns, and surreal cutting-edge walled cities leads to cataclysmic discovery – about their civilization, their government, their environment, and ultimately about what it means to be human.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Map Whitman
• Release date: Nov 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9780988269941

Map Whitman

Map Whitman was born in Colorado and, although Map has traveled extensively and lived all over the globe, now isn’t so very far from that beginning. After dabbling in the world of corporations and important people, Map left life in big cities for remote places where folks wave to each other simply to revel in the novelty of another human being. Map, along with family and friends, built a yurt on a mountain top and tries to live with a smallish footprint. Neighborhood bears enjoy the yurt nearly as much as Map’s family, occasionally helping themselves to sundry goods despite the best efforts of Map’s Great Dane.Although Map’s books don’t write themselves, Map carves out some time for other things that matter: family, friends, cooking, backcountry skiing, hiking, biking, running, reading, gardening, and meditating. Not quite a hermit, but increasingly reclusive, Map interacts primarily with wild and humanoid residents of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Map relies upon friends and the kindness of strangers to reach out to the outside world.

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