When tyrant fanatics long have commanded both government and institutions of religion, what can ordinary people do? People just trying to live a decent life, sometimes just trying to live at all. People of sincere faith, or of none.
King Freedom is a tale of escape from oppression. Both an actual escape, and the story of how one young man so beaten down he has no personality at all can grow to be a full human being.
"If science fiction is the literature of outsiders, no one is better suited to writing it than Uncle River." --Publishers Weekly
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When tyrant fanatics long have commanded both government and institutions of religion, what can ordinary people do? People just trying to live a de...
Mogollon, New Mexico, in its remote canyon on the edge of the Gila Wilderness, is one of the Southwest's classic ghost towns. One of the few where gold and silver bricks really did come out on the stage coach, for decades. Originally a newspaper and Public Radio feature when Uncle River lived in Mogollon in the 1980s, these stories are fiction. But they caught a sense of place well enough that River's postmaster wondered why she didn't know the people.
Uncle River now lives in Pie Town, just west of the Continental Divide. A hundred miles from Mogollon, this still is in Catron...
Mogollon, New Mexico, in its remote canyon on the edge of the Gila Wilderness, is one of the Southwest's classic ghost towns. One of the few where ...
