Visiting Pemberly

By Christopher Hoare

Tribute: January !813 —January 2013.

This novella is published here in tribute to Jane Austen and marking the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice; January 28 2013. Since it features living, dead, and imaginary participants it had to trespass outside the purely Regency style and ethos of the writing into a multiverse where all these could co-exist.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the cosmology theories developed since the Higg's Boson discovery have resulted in a far different view of the universe than was previously suspected. Once the Eastern theorists weighed in, without the Western prejudices that had molded earlier thinking, a much different multiverse, governed purely by Mind, came to guide physical science. When I learned that all things were possible within a version of the universe one could conceptualize I undertook to take a character from one of my fictional worlds to meet Jane Austen, and to visit the characters in a Regency world of her fiction...

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Dec 17, 2013
• ISBN: 9780991847006

Christopher Hoare

I am retired and live with my wife, Shirley, and the shelter dog Emmie, in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, writing fiction and working with others on their fiction, as much as life allows. As a lad I lived, breathed, and dreamed aeroplanes; I won a place at RAE Farnborough learning to engineer them. But the reality didn’t fit my dream, so I took off into a stint in the army and then away to join the oil circus. Flying objects are tools when they now appear in my writing―I guess that’s the effect of maturity, but I hope, not a constricted, resigned, and unimaginative maturity. The mind still soars, even without wings, and the dream of carrying others to a better future is now on the page.Some readers comment that none of my stories take place next door to the lives most people live; the less charitable find similarity in characters who tend to be stubborn, independent, and out of step with the world’s expectations. Perhaps there’s a connection between the worlds I portray in fiction, and my working life in oil exploration in the Libyan Desert, the Canadian Arctic, and the mountains and forests of Western Canada.My stories have been set in Regency England, Anglo-Saxon Britain, in modern industrial projects, in the alternate world of Gaia, and the fantasy world of Rast. Sometimes I satirize jobs I’ve done. Many of my central characters are smart, beautiful, and dangerous women who lead unwilling males to fulfil the duties before them. Lt. Gisel Matah in “Deadly Enterprise” is perhaps the most Bond-like of these. I like writing novels about realities my readers can enjoy in the guise of dashing adventurers; loyal comrades; lovers; or pledged sovereigns. I hope they find there the spark that brings them to realize greater dreams of their own.

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