According to News Week, in fifty years, the number of people over sixty-five will be greater than the number of people under twenty-five for the first time in history. This novella is a look at what MIGHT happen.
Detective Vickey Grip has never been very fond of the elderly. She blames them for every bad thing that has ever happened to her, and holds them singularly responsible for ruining the United States. But even she never would have believed what's going on in the small town of Boiling Springs.
There's something in the water, and it isn't good!
Selina Rosen lives in rural Arkansas with her partner of over 8 years and her nearly grown son. Her work has appeared in several magazines and anthologies.
Selina is also the author of several novels, QUEEN OF DENIAL from Meisha Merlin Publishing,and THE HOST, FRIGHT EATER, and GANG APPROVAL, from Yard Dog Press. All titles are available from Amazon.com.
Selina's hobbies include gardening, sword fighting, and hanging out in bars. She's not much of a gardener, mediocre at sword fighting, however rumor has it that she is actually guite good at hanging out in bars. (For those of you who are humor challenged, that was a joke.)
Selina Rosen lives in rural Arkansas with her partner, her parrot, Ricky, assorted fish and fowl ' both inside and out, several milk goats, an undetermined number of barn cats and her dog, Spud. Besides writing, editing, and taking care of the farm, she's a gardener, carpenter, rock mason, electrician (NOT a plumber), Torah scholar and sword fighter. In her spare time she creates water gardens, builds furniture, and adds to her on-going creation of the 'Great Wall of Kibler.'
Selina's short fiction has appeared in several magazines and anthologies including Sword and Sorceress 16, Such A Pretty Face, Distant Journeys, three of the MZB Fantasy Mags, Tooth and Claw, Turn the Other Chick, and the new Anthology At the End of the Universe, just to name a few. Her critically acclaimed story entitled "Ritual Evolution" appeared in the first of the new Thieves World anthologies, Turning Points, and her second TW story, 'Gathering Strength,' appeared in the new TW anthology, Enemies of Fortune. The Bubba Chronicles is a collection of her short fiction which features ' strangely enough ' bubbas.
Her novels include Queen of Denial, Recycled, Chains of Freedom, Chains of Destruction, The Host trilogy, Fire & Ice, Hammer Town, Reruns, and novellas entitled The Boatman and Material Things.
Her new novel, Strange Robby, is due out in July of 2006 from Meisha Merlin Publishing. This will be her first hard cover release. Bad Lands, a gonzo-mystery novel co-written with Laura J. Underwood, is due out from Five Star Mysteries in 2007.
In her capacity as owner and editor in chief of Yard Dog Press, Ms. Rosen has edited several anthologies, including the award-winning Bubbas of the Apocalypse, and The Four Bubbas of the Apocalypse: Flatulence, Halitosis, Incest and' Ned, and two collections of 'modern' fairy tales ' the Stoker-nominated Stories That Won't Make Your Parents Hurl and More Stories That Won't Make Your Parents Hurl.
She also owns and operates CASTLE FARMS, an ADGA goat farm with registered Nubian milk goats.
You can contact Selina through her personal website www.selinarosen.com, or just Email her at selinarosen@cox.net.
The Boat Man reads a bit like the science fiction of old. Lots of adventure. Lots of action. But a real scientific extrapolation underneath. Granted, you have to have the right mind set to like this book. You have to believe that people should contribute to society--and when they get too old to contribute to society, they should be cared for in a way that makes sense, both for them and for the rest of humanity. The weight the elderly will place on our ability to care for them very well might break us within the next forty years--or more likely, it will mean that only the rich will be able to afford health care and that growing old will be a terrible experience instead of a reward for a lifetime of hard work. For sure, the institutions we have in place now cannot handle the coming onslaught, and the way we do things will need to adapt if we're even going to have a chance to make it.
Selina Rosen's The Boat Man takes a look at one possibility for our future. It's worth the look.
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This was a really good book. I can not tell you how it got me to think but i will tell you this, it did make me think. I highly recomend reading this book. It is nothing but great. Selina has done it again....
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This was a really good book. I can not tell you how it got me to think but i will tell you this, it did make me think. I highly recomend reading this book. It is nothing but great. Selina has done it again....
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