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    Life After Walden
    Life After Walden
    Life After Walden
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    Life After Walden

    By John Walters

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    In a future gone over to virtual simulations, a man escapes to Walden Pond, site of Henry David Thoreau's classic "Walden". When a group of friends, thinking him unbalanced, come to bring him home, they are instead one by one pulled into the simple reality of the natural life. Then a relative takes a more violent approach to make them all see reason.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Walters
    Release dateMay 29, 2012
    ISBN9781476041230
    Life After Walden
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    John Walters

    John Walters recently returned to the United States after thirty-five years abroad. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He attended the 1973 Clarion West science fiction writing workshop and is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America. He writes mainstream fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and memoirs of his wanderings around the world.

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      Life After Walden - John Walters

      Life After Walden

      By

      John Walters

      Published by Astaria Books at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 by John Walters

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons places or events - except those in the public domain - is purely coincidental.

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      Life After Walden

      Jeenee, Richee, Frill, and Leo stumble out of the hovercar that has settled beside the shore. Ugh, says Leo, as he steps into the mud. Are you sure…

      This way, Jeenee says. She takes Richee’s hand; Frill takes Leo’s.

      Swollen gray clouds hang low over the pond, giving its surface a dull metallic color. The surrounding woods are dense, impenetrable, shadow-laden; the occasional birdcalls seem forlorn, like lost

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