I wrote Pioneers On Unium, the first novel of a three-book series, from August 15, 1975, through August 11, 1977. The science-fiction adventure story begins with three friends rescuing a baby during a lake speedboat racing accident. In return one of the boat racers, who is very rich, offered the young men an all-expense-paid vacation at his resort in Puerto Rico, which they accepted.
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Greg Vancover, the book's principal character, leaves one week before the other two rescuers because of previous commitments. While flying through the Bermuda Triangle, the passenger plane carrying one hundred thirty-four people on board is captured by a flying saucer. It turns out the alien's home planet is being destroyed by a deadly virus, and the space travelers are hunting for a new home. The aliens have three planets under consideration, so they are in the process of collecting specimens throughout the universe and populating them for experimental purposes.
The passenger plane and occupants are transported to the planet Unium, where they will be closely observed by the aliens but not interfered with. The new pioneers survive against the dangers of an unknown world, which they very soon discover is not Earth. Rescue out of the question, the new pioneers, over time, built a wooden palisade frontier-styled fort to protect them from the local wildlife. Once the primitive village which they named Fort America was completed, the settlers set up their own town government patterned after their USA homeland.
Like all societies, no matter how hard one tries, life is never perfect. Over time, the new pioneers develop petty personal differences and as in any group of people, individuals make unwise decisions that ultimately come back to haunt them very unexpectedly. The story's lead man, Greg Vancover, made an unwise but common decision. The young man had a relationship with two women at the same time. Things quickly spin out of control, and Greg's poor decision-making leads to unforeseeable trouble with the father of one girl, who was very influential in Fort America's decision-making.
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This trouble escalates into violence, and Greg soon finds himself on the wrong side of the law. The young man is judged by his peers, which eventually leads to his banishment from Fort America and the beginning of the sequel, Exiled On Unium.
I present this story in the vintage science fiction adventure style of my favorite authors, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert E. Howard, Jules Verne, Philip José Farmer, and Michael Resnick to name a few. The story overall is family-friendly, although some mature subjects are touched upon in a suggestive, but undetailed way.
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Like C.S. Lewis's fantastic writings, there is a story behind the story. Here, every action causes a reaction. When you make poor decisions, they will eventually come back to haunt you at a later date negatively. The moral of the story is, that if you don't start out right, you will not end up right. Make thoughtful decisions, because they will invariably affect your future.
