My First Novel: "Culture Clock"

 

Culture Clock presents attempts to inspire a jaded world with a collective loss of imagination. One culture, focused solely on entertainment and self-advancement, dominates the world. The pinnacle of civilization, defined by the absence of poverty, has most people working on computers. Close relationships are rare, and family time and holidays even more so. Instead people they plug away at their own success in comfortable, one-room condos blanketing the planet.

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A mega tech firm tries to solve this issue of cultural loss by growing new human cultures using the most innovative people of society. The CEO of the company, Sonata Geraldine, leads this experiment through “Culture Lab,” a retreat center where highly innovative people live, removed from society, and technology, for three years.

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At the same time, Sonata’s father, a retired therapist is visited by a supernatural force in his dreams, and asked to build and sell antique-style dollhouses. These dollhouses are meant to restore people’s imagination and interpersonal connections.

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Vic and Sonata are both pressured by a clock tower, appearing both in dreams and real life. The tower’s keeper threatens to revert humanity back to the days of caveman if something isn’t done to restore a sense of wonder and connectedness in the human heart.

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As Vic and Sonata work towards creating new traditions to bring people back together, they get to deepen their relationship as father and daughter. They get help from Tommy, an orphaned eleven year old, and the only child at Culture Lab, who teaches the world’s extra-ambitious adults about humor, adventure, and spending quality time together. Tommy may just be the right person to halt the culture clock and give humanity a chance to hold on to its more important technological advances.

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I plan to self-publish on Amazon Kindle this summer.
Send me an email if you want a hard copy of the book. 

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