Duende Meadow

Product Description Six centuries after the Last War, the battle for America has just begun. For six long centuries after mankindвЂTMs Last War, a handful of survivors dwelled in a place of eternal twilight below the fields of Kansas. Transformed into duendes , ghost-like beings, by the fields of organic energy which protected them, they waited for nature to heal the wounds of the Earth. But when, at last, they reached the light, they found their land in the hands of their age-old enemies… About the Author Paul Cook is a native of Arizona, and currently is a Lecturer in the English Department at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in English in 1981 from the University of Utah, and has two previous science fiction novels to his credit, Tintagel and The Alejandra Variations . He has published over 150 poems in such journals as The Georgia Review , The Seattle Review, Quarterly West and The Southern Poetry Review . He has also done some occasional script writing. When the last great war came, a small group of survivors hid themselves below the fields of Kansas, living in a place of eternal twilight.Over time the energy surrounding the descendants of these survivors turned them into Duendes, ghost-like beings, never having seen real light or knowing anything of the conditions of the world beyond their underground enclosure.Six hundred years have passed since the war and now some Duendes want to leave the safety of their habitat and finally go ‘above.’ But what will they discover once they have emerged into the sunlight? Six centuries after the Last War, the battle for America has just begun. For six long centuries after mankinds Last War, a handful of survivors dwelled in a place of eternal twilight below the fields of Kansas. Transformed into duendes , ghost-like beings, by the fields of organic energy which protected them, they waited for nature to heal the wounds of the Earth. But when, at last, they reached the light, they found their land in the hands of their age-old enemies. From the Trade Paperback edition.