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Curiosity Seekers

by Karen B. Kaplan
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781541326941
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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  • Pages: 112
  • Original Price: USD 9.85
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 177 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies

In an amused tone, Kaplan offers gentle science fiction that is sympathetic to the human condition. The first chapter, "Escapade," features Gomer and Muriel Ackerman, a retro couple in the mid-21st Century who are searching for old-fashioned values such as privacy in a twentieth-century settlement but do not get what they bargained for. In "A Dementia Returnee," their friend Virginia becomes one of the first people cured of dementia but who runs into an unexpected detour to complete health. Later in the book, Gomer's wife dies and he seeks consolation from a custom-designed robot that satisfies in some ways and does not in others. In the last chapter, Muriel's grandniece Beatriz discovers extraterrestrials in another solar system who must be stingy with words in order to survive. If you too are a curiosity seeker, you will find yourself with kindred spirits within this collection of interrelated stories.

Karen B. Kaplan is not your typical science fiction writer. Thus you will find no weapons or nasty robots in her book. She has not pursued a career that at first glance would lead to science fiction. She has been a hospice chaplain for eight years, and in 2014 published true stories she heard while on the job in Encountering The Edge: What People Told Me Before They Died (Pen-L Publishing). After that, she decided to use gentle science fiction (including a decidedly friendly robot companion) to show how a retro couple in the future would confront spiritual issues such as privacy, regrets, and getting more out of life by being curious. Her fans who could "enjoy" a book about hospice assuredly will find this one far more entertaining yet thought-provoking just the same.

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