The third part of this saga, Brian and the Pacific War, finds Byron in Cyprus as the end of the seventeen-year conditional reprieve for mankind is rapidly approaching. Brian is still strategically missing from Byron's psyche, but his influence from afar compels Byron to write this third book, thus completing the Brian trilogy. Following up on the story line of the first book of the trilogy, whereby the Rainbow Men Expeditionary Force is destined to take all of seventeen-hundred years to make its multi-chromatic presence and cosmic wisdom felt on planet Earth in the System of the Sun, Brian arranges for Byron to astral-travel seventeen-hundred years into the future to witness their arrival. Set on a mythical tropical island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, where its cosmic population has thrived in peace and harmony for fourteen-hundred years, as a company-run state, influenced by a unisex church of common sense, the islanders find themselves having to cope with a bunch of rabid reactionaries. Having come to the island as refugees, escaping from the folly of their own archaic worlds, the reactionaries plot to take over the island and once again revert to an existence of abject misery. However, the Cosmics have plotted before them, and with the help of a Rainbow Men Expeditionary Force materializing in the nick of time as the result of state-of-the-art technology, the reactionaries are defeated without a drop of blood being spilt. A psychological war to end all wars having been witnessed and reported upon, Byron then receives the good news that the threat of a terminal solution for mankind had been withdrawn – Unconditionally! It seemed Brian and Byron had done more than enough on Planet Earth in the System of the Sun to satisfy the stringent psychic demands of the Cosmic Trinity, headed by the Ultimate Force. The book is then brought to a factual conclusion with Brian and Byron integrated as an item and hopeful that their trilogy will eventually bring some light to a world that is still deluding itself into believing it has already escaped the grip of the dark ages. As a summary, it could be said that this book is the symbolic, albeit an extremist vision of Brian, which portrays the possibility of finality for mankind unless radical changes are to take place. It is a classic tale of right against might, with the added ingredient of fantasy mixed together and thrown haphazardly into a melting pot without a recipe to follow – The whimsical vision of one man whose characters are instantly recognizable, cast in a mould of conventional thought and deed – And a constant reminder to all of the need to guarantee a sensible evolutionary future for ourselves and our planetary home. Is it visionary, or just sci-fi? The choice is left to the reader. And I intend to keep my own counsel. |
