The Pandastan Trilogy Series

The president’s gone mad, but who could blame him? A mysterious race of sentient pandas with curious powers has burst onto the world stage, and they’re turning the whole planet upside down. That’s just fine with Dramedy, though. Anything to spice up her dreary life as a court clerk. That’s exactly what Dramedy gets when she’s tapped to serve on a secret court in America’s War on Pandas. The pandas are determined to reverse world economic growth in order to save the planet; but President Gripp, convinced he’s receiving commands from a deity known only as “the Market,” is ready to plunge the entire world into nuclear war to foil their plans. Now it’s up to Dramedy to stop him. She is joined by Jack and Carrie, two young Americans taken captive by pandas while journeying home from their work in Africa. Together, they must appeal to the pandas for peace. That means journeying deep within the Hindu Kush to the secret city of Pandalama, in the remote, mountainous realm of Pandastan. The Pandastan Trilogy explores our human civilization, bent on self-destruction, alongside am evolved society of mystic pandas who intervene to prevent planetary ecological collapse. But without the willing cooperation of humanity, the powers of the pandas will not be enough to prevail. The tale follows a small group of ordinary humans who unexpectedly find themselves at the juncture between human and panda worlds. They turn to the pandas for teachings in mind, spirit, and love, seeking to apply this wisdom in service of a healed age.

Dramedy would just as soon stay in Pandastan and continue enjoying the life of an exile, but all is not well in America. President Gripp has assumed dictatorial power of the country, and Dramedy and her friends have been called to build new bridges of understanding between Pandastan and the United States. That turns out to be a pretty tall order. At first, the main challenge appears to be the money-worshipping religion called Marketism that’s sweeping the United States, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. A secret international conspiracy has plans for world domination that will alter the very nature of humanity itself, and it’s one step ahead of Pandastan at every turn. As the world falls apart around them, Dramedy, Candy, Carrie, and Jack each struggle to find a path forward. Only love and lenwa seem to offer any hope for the future. To access this hope, they must learn to believe what their hearts already know to be true. Easier said than done. The Pandastan Trilogy explores our human civilization, bent on self-destruction, alongside an evolved society of mystic pandas who intervene to prevent planetary environmental collapse. Having developed the ability to tap into the nonphysical fields of existence through mental discipline, the pandas devote their powers to preserving a living future for all the inhabitants of Earth. But unless they can convince humanity to change its ways willingly, their powers will not be enough to prevail. The tale follows a small group of ordinary Americans who unexpectedly find themselves at the juncture between human and panda worlds. Each of them must confront the challenge of finding a meaningful approach to life in a world that’s headed on a collision course with disaster. Only a revolution in human consciousness seems to offer any hope. They turn to the pandas for teachings in mind, spirit, and love, seeking to apply this wisdom in service of a healed age.

The planet is now safe from both the Anahitan Empire and President Gripp’s theocratic dictatorship, but Earth is still on course for ecological destruction. To break their impasse with the Lokapandas, Pandastan must rely on one final gamble to save the world: travel through time to find the fabled panda Heva, in hopes that she can set the world to rights. Meanwhile, the Concern has inducted Carrie into the Society of the Elect, assigning her to assist with Gripp’s return to the world political stage. The Elect plans to use emergent technology to transform their bodies and challenge the nebulous entity known as the Machine for world supremacy. Dramedy and Jack can’t deal with that right now: Pandastan has recruited them to accompany Adler and Fez on the perilous journey to the future. There, they must contend with the horrors of a machine planet on their quest to find Heva. The survival of the entire living world hangs in the balance in this, the final, stirring conclusion to the Pandastan Trilogy. The Pandastan Trilogy explores our human civilization, bent on self-destruction, alongside am evolved society of mystic pandas who intervene to prevent planetary ecological collapse. But without the willing cooperation of humanity, the powers of the pandas will not be enough to prevail. The tale follows a small group of ordinary humans who unexpectedly find themselves at the juncture between human and panda worlds. They turn to the pandas for teachings in mind, spirit, and love, seeking to apply this wisdom in service of a healed age.