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Mark David Gerson
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The MoonQuest
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author Insight
A "True Fantasy" for Our Time and All Time
"It's a human need to be told stories," actor Alan Rickman once said. "The more we’re governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.” Rickman could easily have been talking about The MoonQuest, a story set in a mythical time and place where stories are banned and storytellers put to death, which is why it’s so important in this excerpt that Yhoshi shares his story. It’s both gratifying and disturbing that when the book came out in 2007, I was often asked whether I had written it as metaphor for the then political situation in the US. Yet the book had its genesis more than a decade earlier, and I wrote it with no conscious political agenda. Yet more than 25 years after I penned the first words of what would become The MoonQuest, readers in the US and around the world still tell me that they find echoes of their own national situation in its pages, a fact that remains as disturbing as it is gratifying. As it was in the Q’ntana of this “true fantasy” and as Rickman urged, it has never been more important to tell our stories.
Book Excerpt
The MoonQuest
“Unless we tell our stories, unless we share our stories, the land will not heal and M’nor will be lost to Q’ntana forever. This is your story — one of your stories. Telling it as you did is part of The MoonQuest, part of The Return. It is The Return. Sharing your dreams — remembering your dreams and sharing them, sharing them as you did, as Fynda and Garan did — that’s what will carry us to M’nor, that’s what will restore her light, to us as to all Q’ntana. Do you understand now?”
Yhoshi nodded. Tears still trickled down his face. He wiped them away with the back of his hand. “Thank you,” he whispered through a weak smile.
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