THE STILLNESS SERIES
Thirty years in the making, The Stillness Series is an epic, captivating, immersive saga that begins in 1930’s China with a small group of travllers and culminates in a future where humans are replaced by a superior, more empathetic species. Blending historical fiction, metaphysical sci-fi, speculative philosophy and magical realism, it explores themes of fate, destiny and human transformation.
It is a mesmerizing elegy, not simply an apocalyptic tale;a requiem for humanity filled with cautious hope: that as our species bows out, we leave behind the posibillity that something gentler and wiser will bloom
AUTHOR'S BIO
I have been passionate about Asia from an early age when my father, a Marine officer, told me stories about war-torn China. My passion grew deeper because of my own experiences in Vietnam where I spent a year in the jungle fighting the Viet Cong, the North Vietnamese Army and malariya.
After returning from the war, I obtained a master’s degree in Asia’s studies; learned to speak, read and write Chinese; established numerous busniesses in Asia; an became an international lawyer. I advised decided busniesses on their global operations and strategies, lectured at local univercities on Asian culture and busniess law, traveled frequently to Asia, perticipated in seminars in Vietnam and China for busniess and goverment leaders, and taught graduate student at the University of San Diego (UCSD) and San Diego State University.
Thirty years in the making, The Stillness Series came about for many reasons, but the four most importent involve a Vietnamese women giving birth in the mud during a monsoon, a dead North Vietnamese soldier with a copy of Rousseau’s Confessions in his rucksack, Homer’s lliad and the trauma of schizophrenia.
I currently live with my wife in a secluded rural town veiled by the forests of Norththen Califonia, writting and teaching young students the values of analytical thinking and intellectual exploration.
GLOWING REVIEWS FOR RICHARD LEE FERGUSON'S BEST-SELLING NOVEL STIRRING THE STILLNESS PART 1, VOICES OF QUEST (BOOK 1 OF THE STILLNESS SERIES)
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"A unique and thought-provoking read."
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"Whispers truths you didn't know you needed to hear."
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"Not just a book-a thought experiment."
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"So surreal, and yet so real."
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"Captivating an amazing mix of history, fiction, and metaphysics."
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"The mix of histrorical fiction, sci-fi, and metaphysical mystery is unlike anything I've read."
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"Unapologeticaly cerebral."
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"Mesmerizing blend of mystery, magic, and meaning."
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"A requiem for humanity, sung not in rage, but in reverent sorrow and cautious hope."
THE BOOKS
EXAMINE
Evolution through suffering: pain and madeness are the crucibles from which a new species may emergy, This is not simply an apocalypse tale; it is a slow, mournful molting of one species into another.
Femininity as Creative/Destractive force: The goddess is both nurturing and annihilating. Her plan to birth Superior Ones is done in quite defiance of God’s fatalism and addiction to entropy.
Schizophrenia as Spritual initiation: John’s voices are not just illness, they are ruptures in species-bound consciouness. Michael will inherit them, magnified.
Exile and belonging: Every character is outcast-ethnically, ideologically, psychologically, spritually. The cave becomes a crucible for their longing.