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The Lost Planet Trilogy

         The Lost Planet Trilogy is composed of "The Lost Planet", "The 4D Earth War", and "Day of the Mystikon". After I wrote The Lost Planet, I soon realized I had the potential for a sequel, and so i went ahead and wrote The 4D Earth War.

I will confess now that when i first wrote the 4D Earth War, I was still somewhat naive about such things as US politics and foreign policy, so it was lacking in actual insight in these subject-matters and probably succumbed to a heavy a dose of ethnocentric fear-mongering in the foreign policy department. Specifically, the Middle East and its problems with terrorism were misunderstood by my naive mind, such that I could not see past the basic mainstream corporate propaganda, which has failed miserably to explain so-called acts of terrorism and aired and published the news-stories about such acts as nothing more than the actions of madmen.

   Not too long ago, I finally began to understand how the US corporate media spins any active resistance to US corporate and imperial or "colonial" occupation of foreign countries by indigenous natives of those lands as "acts of terrorism", thereby leading the mainstream public into thinking that unreasonable, uncivilzed madmen are responsible for the acts and making the corporate imperialists look like completely innocent victims.

   Why do i bother to point this out now, when refering to the second book of the Lost Planet trilogy, the 4D Earth war? Because in the 4D Earth War I quite naively projected the possibility that the acts of terrorism were indicative of a growing force of opposition in the Middle East that would eventually stand up to the United States and conduct a war with it, and that such a war could lead to the use of nuclear weapons and the destruction of all civilzation on Earth.

    There are some that would take such a possibility seriously, some who are as naive as I once was, and there are even more who would take it as a challenge, and by the looks of things, they have done so and made a complete mess of things in the process. What i failed to understand when i wrote the 4D Earth War, and what so many others fail to understand still, because the mainstream propaganda machine has been working over-time, is that the actual source of the problem with terrorism in the Middle East is US corporate imperialism to begin with.

    So, rather than blame those in the ME that resist US corporate imperialism for the mess that has been evolving and that could result in a much greater world-wide conflict, I would suggest to all my readers that they consider the reality of the situation, the reality which is kept suppressed and hidden from the mainstream media and the American public which has learned to depend upon it for the news. That reality is that US corporations have been and are continuing to oppress, exploit, and silence natives of foreign countries that oppose their form of capitalistic corporate profiteering and exploitation of resources for profit, because those methods are destructive to the natives communities and negligent to their welfare.

    When has corporate profiteering been anything else? If US citizens are aware of the selfish and careless ways of corporate profiteers in their own back yard, why are they so ignorant of the same methods being applied in foreign countries overseas?

   Okay, the reason why I have pointed this reality out is because I don't think I did so in any detail in the 4D Earth War and instead, simply assigned too much of the blame for the conflict on foreigners from the Middle East. That is where I erred, and I did so because I fell under the spell of the fear-mongering mainstream propaganda machine. I did point out that corporate CEOs were selfish and negligent, but I failed to make the foreign connection with the Middle East.

   After Querzo managed to get his mining company going in 2092, and moved his regular post to Callisto, the moon of Jupiter, he received a report that war had begun on Earth in late 2093, and this convinced him that he should accelerate the construction of the Windsong, a huge solar windship that was designed to carry about a thousand humans, all at once, to Mars and the Jovian colonies.

   But before the windships were on their way, the war had escalated to the nuclear level, and so Querzo decided to speed to Earth, to render assistance, in his Tranquan Warbird, which was extremely fast, much faster than any conventional ships. When he finally reached Earth in the early spring of 1994, nukes had laid much of it to ruins and multiple millions of people had perished.

   After making contact with an old friend and a community of survivors in a rare pocket of life not yet affected by nuclear fallout, a close investigation of a local warlord's fortress revealed extraterrestrial complicity in the war, and temporal manipulation as well. Because the warbird that Querzo found on the asteroid in 2087 also transcended time, Querzo decided to investigate the aliens temporal manipulations of Earth's past history, and discovered the only way to undo the damages of the nuclear war and the complete destruction of Earth was for him to intervene and prevent the alien manipulations of the past.

   Later, I realized that I had the potential for a trilogy when I realized that some of the characters from the 4D Earth War had been left hanging, and I thought it was a good idea to also present a detailed example of the relativity of the human condition, specifically, how humans are much more the products of their environment and their formative years than those who hold to the theory of good versus evil dare to delve into.

   In Day of the Mystikon, it was my intention to examine how a man who had made some big mistakes in his life and gone the wrong way could, if given the chance, do a much better job of being a respectable, civilized player of society. In the 4D Earth War, a warlord that had been manipulated by the extraterrestrials had been recruited by them during one of the most desperate times in his life, when he was contemplating suicide because of his miserable failures. Querzo learned all about it and decided that, because the warlord had been displaced from his own time, that returning the man to his own time was necessary, but pointless if he simply left him there to repeat his mistakes. So Querzo gave the man enough gold and platinum to get a healthy start again, and in Day of the Mystikon, we get to see how that worked out for the man, from his point of view.

   In Day of the Mystikon, the ex-warlord tried to get a new start and did an honest job of it, realizing the opportunity Querzo had given him, but unfortunately, the aliens from the 4D Earth War appeared again, with new plans for world-domination, and they forced the man's hand once again.

   Day of the Mystikon was written as the third novel of the Lost Planet Trilogy, but for reasons that the reader finds out near the end of the story, it has also become thought of as the prequel to the Tem-Space Variant series. It is also the beginning of an alliance between the ex-warlord and Querzo, which is not recognized by the aliens, who also feel free to continue to manipulate and use the ex-warlord whenever they have the need.

   It was in Day of the Mystikon that the real beginning of the Tem-Space Variant occurs, so anyone that wants to understand the background of the Tem-Space Variant series is well-advised to read it.

Nick Zentor, 3/4/07

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Updates The Lost Planet Ntzeon Science Fiction and Fantasy Digest Dead Ends Blue-Star Science Fiction Digest Science Fiction's Most Popular Theme Book Reviews About the Author Light Focal Points of Reality Sci-Fi Links	The Lost Planet Trilogy The Lost Planet Trilogy is composed of "The Lost Planet", "The 4D Earth War", and "Day of the Mystikon". After I wrote The Lost Planet, I soon realized I had the potential for a sequel, and so i went ahead and wrote The 4D Earth War. I will confess now that when i first wrote the 4D Earth War, I was still somewhat naive about such things as US politics and foreign policy, so it was lacking in actual insight in these subject-matters and probably succumbed to a heavy a dose of ethnocentric fear-mongering in the foreign policy department. Specifically, the Middle East and its problems with terrorism were misunderstood by my naive mind, such that I could not see past the basic mainstream corporate propaganda, which has failed miserably to explain so-called acts of terrorism and aired and published the news-stories about such acts as nothing more than the actions of madmen. Not too long ago, I finally began to understand how the US corporate media spins any active resistance to US corporate and imperial or "colonial" occupation of foreign countries by indigenous natives of those lands as "acts of terrorism", thereby leading the mainstream public into thinking that unreasonable, uncivilzed madmen are responsible for the acts and making the corporate imperialists look like completely innocent victims. Why do i bother to point this out now, when refering to the second book of the Lost Planet trilogy, the 4D Earth war? Because in the 4D Earth War I quite naively projected the possibility that the acts of terrorism were indicative of a growing force of opposition in the Middle East that would eventually stand up to the United States and conduct a war with it, and that such a war could lead to the use of nuclear weapons and the destruction of all civilzation on Earth. There are some that would take such a possibility seriously, some who are as naive as I once was, and there are even more who would take it as a challenge, and by the looks of things, they have done so and made a complete mess of things in the process. What i failed to understand when i wrote the 4D Earth War, and what so many others fail to understand still, because the mainstream propaganda machine has been working over-time, is that the actual source of the problem with terrorism in the Middle East is US corporate imperialism to begin with. So, rather than blame those in the ME that resist US corporate imperialism for the mess that has been evolving and that could result in a much greater world-wide conflict, I would suggest to all my readers that they consider the reality of the situation, the reality which is kept suppressed and hidden from the mainstream media and the American public which has learned to depend upon it for the news. That reality is that US corporations have been and are continuing to oppress, exploit, and silence natives of foreign countries that oppose their form of capitalistic corporate profiteering and exploitation of resources for profit, because those methods are destructive to the natives communities and negligent to their welfare. When has corporate profiteering been anything else? If US citizens are aware of the selfish and careless ways of corporate profiteers in their own back yard, why are they so ignorant of the same methods being applied in foreign countries overseas? Okay, the reason why I have pointed this reality out is because I don't think I did so in any detail in the 4D Earth War and instead, simply assigned too much of the blame for the conflict on foreigners from the Middle East. That is where I erred, and I did so because I fell under the spell of the fear-mongering mainstream propaganda machine. I did point out that corporate CEOs were selfish and negligent, but I failed to make the foreign connection with the Middle East. After Querzo managed to get his mining company going in 2092, and moved his regular post to Callisto, the moon of Jupiter, he received a report that war had begun on Earth in late 2093, and this convinced him that he should accelerate the construction of the Windsong, a huge solar windship that was designed to carry about a thousand humans, all at once, to Mars and the Jovian colonies. But before the windships were on their way, the war had escalated to the nuclear level, and so Querzo decided to speed to Earth, to render assistance, in his Tranquan Warbird, which was extremely fast, much faster than any conventional ships. When he finally reached Earth in the early spring of 1994, nukes had laid much of it to ruins and multiple millions of people had perished. After making contact with an old friend and a community of survivors in a rare pocket of life not yet affected by nuclear fallout, a close investigation of a local warlord's fortress revealed extraterrestrial complicity in the war, and temporal manipulation as well. Because the warbird that Querzo found on the asteroid in 2087 also transcended time, Querzo decided to investigate the aliens temporal manipulations of Earth's past history, and discovered the only way to undo the damages of the nuclear war and the complete destruction of Earth was for him to intervene and prevent the alien manipulations of the past. Later, I realized that I had the potential for a trilogy when I realized that some of the characters from the 4D Earth War had been left hanging, and I thought it was a good idea to also present a detailed example of the relativity of the human condition, specifically, how humans are much more the products of their environment and their formative years than those who hold to the theory of good versus evil dare to delve into. In Day of the Mystikon, it was my intention to examine how a man who had made some big mistakes in his life and gone the wrong way could, if given the chance, do a much better job of being a respectable, civilized player of society. In the 4D Earth War, a warlord that had been manipulated by the extraterrestrials had been recruited by them during one of the most desperate times in his life, when he was contemplating suicide because of his miserable failures. Querzo learned all about it and decided that, because the warlord had been displaced from his own time, that returning the man to his own time was necessary, but pointless if he simply left him there to repeat his mistakes. So Querzo gave the man enough gold and platinum to get a healthy start again, and in Day of the Mystikon, we get to see how that worked out for the man, from his point of view. In Day of the Mystikon, the ex-warlord tried to get a new start and did an honest job of it, realizing the opportunity Querzo had given him, but unfortunately, the aliens from the 4D Earth War appeared again, with new plans for world-domination, and they forced the man's hand once again. Day of the Mystikon was written as the third novel of the Lost Planet Trilogy, but for reasons that the reader finds out near the end of the story, it has also become thought of as the prequel to the Tem-Space Variant series. It is also the beginning of an alliance between the ex-warlord and Querzo, which is not recognized by the aliens, who also feel free to continue to manipulate and use the ex-warlord whenever they have the need. It was in Day of the Mystikon that the real beginning of the Tem-Space Variant occurs, so anyone that wants to understand the background of the Tem-Space Variant series is well-advised to read it. Nick Zentor, 3/4/07
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