The Wall

Publish America: May 2002 ISBN 1-59129-327-8

It's the early twenty-fourth century, and life is good in the village of Garth.

The Family of Man, an oppressive religious group, was driven out twenty years before. The age of industrial pollution is over. People are enjoying their freedom quietly in the low-technology, cooperative community.

Morgan Parvati, a student of religion, and Ivor Tread, a sculptor, are savoring their life and love together.

Then everything changes when a spaceship carrying incomprehensible aliens arrives and they seal off the village from the outside world and alter the climate to suit their exotic biology. The aliens take the men and children away for unknown reasons, leaving the women to fend for themselves in the strangely altered environment.

Morgan and the other women of Garth must struggle to survive the occupation, including the ever-present threat of Gorse, the alien leader who takes a special interest in Morgan and from whom she must hide and protect her new-born baby - by any means necessary.

The themes of love, loss, and spiritual growth are intertwined as Morgan struggles to satisfy Gorse's strange desire for knowlege and confront the alien challenge to her life and beliefs.

Copyright© 2002, Barry Tomkins. All rights reserved. Publish America: May 2002 ISBN 1-59129-327-8