About the Book
Seventeen year old Dara arrives at the opposite end to his freethinking universe—the dusty
village of Carnarvon, in South Africa's Northern Cape Province—a town
with more churches than ATMs.
His
mother, an astrophysicist on contract to build the $2.5-Billion SKA
radio telescope array, the biggest scientific instrument in history, now
calls this home.
But Carnarvon is a town that time forgot, a place where the long shadow of bigotry & apartheid still lurks.
It
is no place for a boy who inherited the dark skin of his father’s
Indian heritage to begin singing the praises of science—especially not
when the local preacher has whipped resistance to the “Devil machine” to
fever pitch, claiming as he does that it aims to prove Genesis wrong.
Friends?
No, sir. Dara finds enemies much more quickly.
But he find friends too, friends in most unlikely places...
Michael Smorenburg (b. 1964) grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. An entrepreneur with a passion
for marketing, in 1995 Michael moved to California where he founded a
business consultancy and online media and marketing engine. In 2003 he
returned to South Africa where he launched then sold a security company.
He now operates a property management company and writes full time.
Michael's
greatest love is for the ocean and the environment. His passion is
science, understanding the cosmos, and communicating the urgent need for
reason to prevail over superstition.
His dedicated author's website and pictures at:
Also:
http://www.amazon.com/Michael-Smorenburg/e/B000APEYNY/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
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