Reading Through the Reveries

August 17th, 2016

Awake Goy

Last year I reviewed two fiction books from Paul Christensen, which I very much enjoyed reading. I was recently sent the third installment in the series and pleasantly surprised to see my review of Christensen’s work on the back cover.

A good storyteller like Christensen is able to spread ideas with fiction, changing our factual future.” – Renegade Tribune

I do not think enough people realize the importance of going beyond just reporting facts, offering opinions, and accurately revising history. We need to create works of wonder, using prose like paints, manifesting literary dreamscapes. Perhaps such fiction is not for everyone, as many people are not dreamers, but for those of us with big visions, works such as this can be the fuel for the folk soul.

The Hungry Wolves of Van Diemen’s Land starts small, telling the story of a few young and idealistic souls in Tasmania trying to make sense of their rotten and corrupt world and eventually change it, with their pranks escalating into an all-out assault against the system and its minions, who crack down hard. The Heretic Emperor takes place at some point in the future, wherein the original wolves have inspired a worldwide movement of rebels known as the Wolves of Joy. It tracks an unfolding revolution from many personal perspectives across space and time, as a gifted visionary rises through the ranks of the global government system, known as the Curia, to then break off and wage war against those who seek the destruction and technocratic enslavement of all people, but especially Europeans.

Reveries of the Dreamking takes place right after the last novel leaves off – with the ultimate success of the Emperor’s revolt in question. The “globalist” leadership has been dealt a significant blow, but it turns out that their plans to gain complete control over the populace of the world are still moving ahead. The focus of this story is a Curia soldier who receives prototype prosthetic legs after losing his real ones. His new legs make him a special guest, or rather an exhibition, at an island retreat, where the government has brought in top officials to showcase some of their latest crap artists and intellectuals, as well as their new military technology.

Through the soldier’s vivid dreams and chance encounters, we follow along as he tries to make sense out of a cryptic note with big implications, leading him to a manic musician, a reality TV star whose life is in danger, a conspiracy theorist turned spy, and many others who help him on his journey to his ultimate destiny. Along the way he also learns of the mystical beliefs of the ancient Aryans who once inhabited the island, who revered the dreaming god known as the Bird King and had a prophecy about a few select people who would travel to another world before the Bird King’s awakening.

reverie: a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts; a daydream.

I quickly devoured the book, as I do with all engrossing and entertaining fiction. However, there really does seem to be more to this story than interesting characters and plot turns. The book seems to be calling out to the readers to think about the nature of our world and our place in it. Starting from the beginning, there is a sense of loss in the story, especially since the main character loses his legs, but also because it made me think about all the wonder, beauty, and lives we have lost as our enemies assumed more control.

And yet, if we could only reclaim control of our creative abilities and have courage, we can find a future worth fighting for. We can make it to a better world. We can turn this nightmare into a reverie.

All is not lost. The story continues on.