Why a Booktrail?
A.D. 1986: Explore and get an insight to the human condition via science fiction. A trip to the stunning Galapagos islands is also a unique and special treat within the realm of SF. Marketed as ‘a madcap genealogical adventure’
Galapagos
What you need to know before your trail
Travel back one million years, to A.D. 1986.
Long, long ago, as he researched into the origin of species, Charles Darwin had been inspired by the creatures of the Galapagos.
A million years on, there are new inhabitants of the islands – the human survivors of a journey by boat – have quietly evolved into sleek, furry creatures.
All that survives of their Big-Brain Culture is contained in Mandarax, a tiny electronic marvel which can recall any one of twenty thousand popular quotations from world literature, as well as translate among a thousand languages.
Unfortunately Mandarax doesn’t understand Kanka-Bono, the language of the cannibals who have arrived to ‘look after’ the new humanity…
Locations
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One million years ago, back in 1986 BC., Guayaguil was the chief seaport of the little South American democracy of Ecuador, whose capital was Quito, high in the Andes mountains.
One such mystery back in 1986 was how so many creatures which could not swim great distances had reached the Galapagos islands, an archipelago of volcanic peaks
A sci-fi setting on the Galapagos islands is perhaps the strangest we’ve come across on the booktrail in a while. An island – strange and unwelcoming land and forests. Dark places, places where cannibals roam and strange creatures live.
Vonnegut has been likened to a postmodern Mark Twain and this is certainly reminiscent of an adventure in a weird savage land
The Galapagos islands are made to sound like a magical and mysterious land mass which looked as if they had been
“split off from the mainland from some stupendous catastrophe”
If the land doesn’t creep you out then the descriptions of the things the creatures that live there will.
Travel with a 35 year old AMerican male named James Wait who sets sail to the islands and we meet him in the Calle Diez in his hotel as he awaits to have the most exciting adventure of his life….or does he?
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