A. Ready Press endeavors to offer adroit fiction that engages the reader in current affairs yet inspects the past in which the present is deeply rooted. Whether about yesterday, today or tomorrow, speculative fiction is a vehicle to reveal obscured issues and examine daunting challenges that confront mankind. Whether about relationships, politics, or sheer survival, the passions of mankind are as old as time: envy, lust, sloth; the tension between tradition and novelty, between powerful and weak, and the pull of duty versus the temporary thrill of decadence. And how do people pass down culture to their progeny without either ossification or evaporation? The churning of human interactions is rarely settled.

Both the modern global atmosphere and one’s local environs—states, towns, neighbors and families—are part and parcel of life. Living today and anticipating the tomorrows to come involves the world around you…a world that begs understanding, compels self-reflection, and ignites a voyage of discovery. Yet perception of information alone does not yield knowledge and without discernment wisdom evades us. A robust exploration of the many long-simmering issues within various cultural, economic and political arenas is the burden of the living—we ignore the roiling pot at our peril. However, to some history feels dead, but stories engage and characters can inspire; so fear not, jump in! Better to participate, speak, pick up a book, and continue the journey.

C.A. Ready, June 6, 2022