Andre R. Black

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

André thought he was born on planet Earth, but his parents argued that and revealed to him the truth about his being at the age of four. According to them, his origins are not from this planet, not even from this galaxy, they said, but another, far, far away and strange universe. A stork dropped him by accident onto Earth. That may be the truth. Two and a half years later a sister was found under a rose bush. That may be true as well. Evidently, his parents didn't hear about the normal procreation procedures and left it to probable and rare incidences to have children delivered to them by intergalactic avian beings or have them stuffed in the middle of winter under some thorny bushes by some Easter Bunny with a lousy sense of seasonal timing. Loving to teach, sailing, Martial Arts, Archery and the art of living, he talks a lot about philosophy. Without a fixed address, he travels single-handed around in the South Pacific on a sailing vessel and makes his living wherever he goes. On those long, lonely journeys he comes up with ideas to write about. His first attempt at writing is published with Trafford Publishing and available on Amazon under the title “Oceanborne Madness”, a collection of twenty-one short-stories and now switched to sci-fi in which he shares his vision of a world that could live in a harmonious and symbiotic relationship based on sharing versus owning. A slogan he uses frequently is: THE WORLD NOT AS IT IS; IT IS WHAT WE MAKE IT.

Presently shipwrecked with time on his hands and nothing much else to do, he comes up with critical and controversial views and ideas about such slippery, savory topics as sexuality, religion, education, and society's accepted, but unexamined moral concepts and cultural fallacies, and wraps them into a sci-fi story that is humorous, arousing and entertaining to read. Assisted by pitfalls, setbacks on a personal level and in a perpetual shortage of funds, he gets his views and ideas through observation of people and situations and these stories reflect some of the conclusions he's made. He claims that everything he knows he had learned from his cats and the ocean, and it is remarkable he survived the lessons. These stories are not necessarily the view of the majority of people and André could have learned the easy way when to keep his mouth shut but had little success with that. However, he found a way to say what he felt needed to be said by writing it as a fictional story in a series of ten volumes.

See blog sailsymbiosis.blogspot.ca for samples of the first book in the series "THE LION ROARED FREEDOM>