Return To Kaloon
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In the year 2599 a commuter space taxi was making a routine flight between
Somewhere near
The Cryonics feature had been required by law for the last 160 years in order to eliminate deaths that might occur as a result of a collision with unforeseen obstacles. When the airspace around the space taxi was breached, liquid nitrogen, with a temperature of 320 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, was released into the passenger compartment. This created an instantaneous cocoon around the taxi’s occupants and assured them of an accident free trip. Then, when the crisis had been eliminated it was a simple procedure to revive the passengers and send them on their way, none the worse for wear.
The one side effect that this procedure did produce however was, ‘suspended animation’, and there was some concern by family members about ‘frequent fliers’, who routinely flew into overly dangerous airspace, that prolonged suspension in limbo may in fact, produce some family members that would resurface into the regular life cycle at a younger age than their birth certificates. This in turn, would create multitudes of errors in the government’s records of it’s citizens. But, as with all problems that are not yet realities…this concern was shelved for the present, and relegated to be a matter to be dealt with by future lawmakers.
When the taxi was struck by the shock wave it was somewhere over
Then, as was programmed into it’s flight plan back at it’s departure date in 2599, the automatic ‘defrosting’ mechanism of the vessel engaged and the occupants of the taxi awoke from, what to them…seemed to be, a short nap; when in reality, they had been suspended in time for half a century. The year was 2649…and the world that they had known when they had embarked on their flight, had ceased to exist.
When the two passengers stepped aboard that taxi for a short ride to
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About the Book
Tucker Charley, and all of the citizens of Kaloon have lived lives of relative normalcy up until that fateful day when Scooter, Tucker’s bog, saw some movement over on the embankment of
Then, when it was finally established that the movement was made by none other than two humans returning to the world of the Dog, it set into motion events that would lead to some very major changes in the society of dogs which now ruled the earth.
Norbert Welch, and Leona Masters, two travelers aboard a wrecked space taxi, find themselves in an environment totally foreign to the lives they had led before their entrance into the world of Dog.
Dogs now occupied the position that man had held for millions of years and as such set forth the rules of civilization rather than being the one who lived by the rule of humans.
Join the citizens of Kaloon and see if you can survive in this, ‘Return to Kaloon’.
About the Author
Carl Galey’s first book about ‘The Dogs of Kaloon’, was completed and published about a year ago. This book, ‘Return to Kaloon’ picks up where the first leaves off and follows the further life and times of Tucker Charley.
Carl has spent his entire adult life in the pursuit of various types of art in all of it’s forms. He first became an artist with a purpose while serving a four year hitch in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. It was here that he honed his skills while rendering caricatures of his shipmates onto paper. After the Navy he returned to
After retiring from the Fire Department he returned to his love of art by continuing into the field of advertising art on billboards. He has since retired from the visual outdoor arts world due to time and age, and has spent the last three years honing his skills at setting onto paper the two books, ‘The Dogs of Kaloon’, and now, ‘Return to Kaloon’.