FORTHCOMING RELEASES

 

J.G. Vibes

ALCHEMY OF THE MODERN RENAISSANCE

20 March 2012

366 pages

ISBN: 9780982999219

Throughout our entire lives some of our favorite works of art have been attempting to speak to us, they have been trying to tell us a story. What is that story? What is it that our favorite works of art have been trying to tell us? Most of the greatest art expresses some kind of message relating to the human desire to create a more peaceful and free society. Alchemy of the Modern Renaissance is a series that ties current artistic expressions to the historical progression of civil rights that has been hidden from mainstream culture. This first installment has nearly 100 different essays featuring insight into philosophy, culture, finance, spirituality, politics, drugs and the many important issues that our generation faces. This series contains the background information that is necessary to truly understand the social messages that are contained within your favorite works of art. There is a global movement for civil rights that has been using art, philosophy and civil disobedience to peacefully resist the oppression that has been forced upon the human race by various tyrants over the centuries. AOTMR takes a detailed look at this movement as well as its goals, its motivations and its opposition. This is your guide to the counter culture, the forgotten story of our past and the philosophy of the future.

 

PLANET SALV

TAKE A NEW SUBLIME TRIP...BACK TO THE FANTASTIC PLANET.

An advanced intergalactic alien species....a reclusive & xenophobic alien race....a strange moon with secrets....all return to the "Fantastic Planet."

LEILAH PUBLICATIONS ANNOUNCES THE RELEASE NEXT YEAR DECEMBER 1, 2012 OF "PLANET SALV" in collaboration with Éditions Gallimard and Éditions Denoel Publishing.  With deepest respect and gratitude to the estate of Stefan Wul, and to master artists Roland Topor and Rene Laloux for making the original vision possible.

PLANET SALV by JOSHUA SERAPHIM is a science-fiction tale of an advanced species discovering its unique place in the "First Generation Galaxies."  The Salvs of "Planet Salv " are an advanced humanoid species capable of extraordinary abilities including telekinesis, telepathy, consciousness transference, Psionics, and transliminality.  The Salvs share their world with the Opians, a xenophobic race, less advanced and suspicious of the strange Salvs.  Civilizations become at risk when the secrets of a mysterious moon, sacred to both Salvs and Opians are revealed. 

PLANET SALV  will excite fans of the 1973 film FANTASTIC PLANET as the novel brings a new story with new characters back to the “Fantastic Planet.”  PLANET SALV releases December 1, 2012 - the 39th anniversary of “Fantastic Planet’s” viewing at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival! 

Copyright © 2012 Joshua Seraphim Leilah Publications

PLANET SALV...... (excerpts)

Outside the dimensions of the First Generation galaxies, a titanic Lamiaseazoyte Whale swallowed a nebula whole.  Stars went nova when in range of the Lamiaseazoyte Whale’s singing.  Resembling a Terran ocean whale on a titanic scale, the Lamiaseazoyte Whale giggled and sang as it swam through the stellar expanse.  

On all the worlds in the First Generation Galaxies, the Salvs were the most sought after species by an elite space-warping family of races.  In this elite group, among the few species that shared consciousness transference with the Salvs were; the Nepetoid spider-cetaceans, the titanic philosopher wooly-mammoths of Myyst, the sun-eating solar-serpents of the Andromeda galaxy whose nuptial rites mimicked the Salvs, the ancient feline races of Aarl, and the Draags of Ygam. 

The world of the Salvs was an indigo sparkle in a far corner of the first generation galaxies.  Salv's indigo sparkle reflected its blue star off the planet's outer Febula rings, casting a reflective violet glow about the planet’s atmosphere at nightfall.  Salv had no natural satellite.  Salv's sister world, which they called the "Lost Planet" hung low and radiant on the Salv horizon, never changing.  The Lost Planet never moved.  The timeless intruder in the Salvine sky had no natural orbit of its own.

Salv story-oracles told their young about the Lost Planet's appearance, or invasion, long ago on their horizon.  One day when their world was still populated by the Great Golams before the Convergence of the Salv tribes, all Salvs looked up to a bright light over the evening horizon.  Their "Lost Planet" artlessly appeared one day in the dawn of Salvic recorded time.  It never moved, it never grew dim or brighter.  No Salv had ever set foot on the strange planet.  To do so, Salvs believed, was sacrilege. 

Salvs shared their fantastic planet with the Opians.  Co-habitation on Salv was a unique situation for both races, each remained aware of their respective existence and domain.  Opians' brains were not as developed biologically on the evolutionary scale as their Salvic cousins.  Ranging several meters shorter than the average-sized Salv, Opians were also humanoid bipeds, like Salvs.  Opiate skin hues ranged from light to darker shades of green.  A minority percentage of Opians were light green skinned with blue highlights in contrast to the deep red and violet Salv skin tones.  These slightly different toned Opians were higher in social strata in Opiate society than the regular greens.  Only the greens with blue highlights were permitted on the exclusive Council that governed the rest of the Opiate species.  The blue-green administrators, Opians called Lums governed Opiate society under the "Luminist Council."

It was never dark because of the Lost Planet on Salv.  Then, Salv was never completely in solar light.  The reflective light from Salv’s Febula Rings rarely penetrated the giant lost intruder, hanging over the horizon like an intrusive caretaker.  Troillyps screeched loudly, gliding over the glowing green inland seas of Salv.  An amphibian two-legged Tetrog two meters in height hobbled along the seashore, nose sniffing and snuffling for a meal.  A floating Zoyzee Jellyfish hovered patiently over the unsuspecting Tetrog and sucked it noisily into its inner foamy entrails.  The Tetrog wiggled its legs as the Zoyzee inhaled one final time and began digesting the creature.  Myriads of sentient Phylo plants of iridescent colors vibrated and twisted, chuckling and howling.  Mists floated around the landscape, emitted by the living Phylo plants as they heckled and chirped at each other.  All was iridescent and alive beneath the indigo Salv sky. 

Two male and female Opians strolled through one of their numerous scientific amphitheaters.  As they passed the amphitheater, the two Opians caught sight of an artificial Salv biodome.  "Salvs.  They never speak to us...they never speak at all to us...they never come out and when they do it is only to address the Luminists!  We cannot even plant a Searine garden without them knowing about it, Sapia!"  Sapia looked at her companion, and writhed her divi tentacles.  "Tura, have they ever telepathized you?”  She asked the older Opian.  "Yes Sapia, it was something I never want to experience again...I am afraid to meditate now.  Did you know they could sense our meditations?  And they always show up in Councils when the Lumins plan a satellite launch."  Sapia's tentacles twitched around her in disdain.  The two Opians continued talking unaware of a dark red-skinned humanoid, a Salv, taller than the two Opians by a few meters standing behind them quietly watching. 

Night was somnolent blue on the Fantastic Planet.  A single iridescent Draag mediation sphere rose and hovered...

To be continued....December 1, 2012.