
Novels

The shocking tale of the "End of All Things" begins...This book is not for the weak of heart nor is it for those who are looking for a typical novel structure. This book is intentionally written as docu-drama that uses exposition interspersed throughout to lay down technical information in propositional descriptions of cyber-biotech, quantum physics and and real-life current advances in science, communications and information technologies. The overlying story is a crazy ride through the implications of the world under the control of an evil entity who has all human tech immediately his finger tips. Be forewarned about or forward-looking to that that if you decide to crack the spine of this book.The deeper story, though, gives insight into the timeless core issues of mankind's relationship to God. The backstory of each character's life explores how we as humans wrestle with faith, the unseen, belief and ultimate meaning.The characters in this book are not your typical socially accessible personalities. Both the protagonists and the antagonists are the highest level intellects battling for the meaning and utilitarian means to understand and co-opt both quantum-physics and metaphysics in their struggle against each other. So, be ready for some technical dialogue that would figure into conversations with the world's leading criminal psychological pathologist, a Triple Nine's Society professor of cosmology from the UK's Cambridge University, a published Mensa Society collegiate text book writer of history, a cyber-encryptionist who is in the top of his field in the employ the notorious Nascent Medical Institute, the globe's foremost detective gifted with inductive, deductive and abductive methods of reasoning and a Mensa Society father that is trying to digest the mind-bending information that is rushing at him like a fire hose as he tries to shield his family from The Beast that is hunting them. Much of the dialogue in this book is something other than a coffeehouse conversation about commonalities. There's no time for that as all the action in this book happens within about seventy two hours along three intertwined story lines revolving around the main characters as they are either being chased or on the chase themselves. Keep in mind that this book is an unfolding conversation between intellectuals and experts who are triangulating off of each other's expertise to grasp the enormity and implications of their combined knowledge in the light of the "case" at hand. Some readers might find it exhausting to read this book, intellectually. Others will find hard to put up with, propositionally. Many will be angry with it, morally, and resist it, spiritually. But, it is hoped that most will not be able to put it down. This is a "Frank Peretti (This Present Darkness) meets C. S. Lewis (The Space Trilogy)" book that involves the spirit world and the physical world intersecting and interfacing with one another through a labyrinth of earthly, lunar and dimensional locations and the restricted, and sometimes breached, passages between them.In the end, this book is both an exposition and and expedition into what the near future may look like when the Anti-Christ rises to meet his Maker with humanity caught in the crossfire.Put on your thinking cap. Put on your seat belt...Daclaxvia is waiting for you.




From the Author
I am amazed by the immensity and complexity of our universe and it thrills me to let my mind run wild regarding the meaning of it all. I have been interested in science and religion (I am a Bible-believing Christian) since I was a teenager. For fun, I love to read on the topics of physics, astronomy, biology and cosmology. I know that "they" say religion and science are incompatible, but I say " they are wrong! Johannes Kepler, the Father of Celestial Mechanics, defined science as "thinking God's thoughts after Him" and that's how I process the cosmos in which we live. Given that, I have also found it satisfying to match the Bible up against the discoveries of modern science...not in terms of "verifying" the Bible in the sense of apologetics, but more as a way to see the fingerprints of God upon all that He has made. That is to say, to know Him...His true identity and how He acts and feels and thinks...to survey, contemplate and stand in awe of His moral and natural attributes written in the cosmos from the indescribably minute sub-atomic quark to the blasts of energy emitted from the immeasurably distant quasar. I like to read and think about such things until my heart and my mind become overwhelmed by the Majesty of the One who spoke them all into existence by the power of His Word. Furthermore, I am compelled to apply the teleology [the doctrine of design and purpose in the material world] of Genesis and the tellos [the ultimate object or aim] of Jesus (found in the Bible in Matthew 24) to the current state of affairs on this globe with special reference to the prophesies of the Bible regarding the consummation of this age at the teleological-tellos end of the cosmos. Daclaxvia is a novel that brings all of those interests together into one story. I had a blast writing it as I "let my mind run wild" telling the story of "the meaning of it all" in the context of the latest science and the unalterable Truth of God's Word and the implications of what that might produce as they meet in time for those who are alive at The Tellos. I hope you have as much fun reading it as I did in writing it. I hope this telling might also create a hunger to discover the teleology of Jesus in many hearts and minds... Regards, D. John Cliffson
About the Author
D. John Cliffson is a pastor of a small church in rural Wisconsin and he has been in the ministry for over thirty five years. He has been married to his wife for over 36 years and they have thirteen children and fourteen grand children. Cliffson is a fan of all things science, the Green Bay Packers, Milwaukee Brewers, Fishing, Bow Hunting and anything fried on a stick...of course the last five on that list are redundant with regard to the earlier disclosure that he is from Wisconsin. He is a follower of Jesus.