Legends of the Half Light:

We are all on a beach. There are pebbles, sometimes, under our feet. Sometimes cool sand. The waves roll and break against the shore, There is salty mist in the blue air, cool against our many cheeks.

The sun is still low and threatening to burst on the horizon; precious, though dangerous rays are starting to show. The suggestion of a shadow is following each of our cautious steps and we advance slowly, like the music of an orchestra, with cymbals crashing and with horns..

This is the 'half light', said by some to be the condition of our unprecidented species on this earth. The half light is said to be a time before the dawning of a new age, an age that is promised to be brilliant and golden. But now is a time of shadows that fight back, of revelations that flicker in the slender hope of fulfillment. There is unity hovering on the brink of ruin and faith riding shotgun on the crests of the eager waves. There is the call to glory as well as the far off thunder of approaching war. It is a time of battle, but equally a time of hope.

It’s understood that no one can know the future, at least not with any real certainty. The library shelves are stacked with honest attempts stretching back to the beginnings of civilization, some of them uncannily accurate, others fantastic and yet strangely true in some way. Most of them have two things at least in common: they are, on the one hand, concerned about the human race and they are, on the other hand, offering some kind of warning about where we are going or where we have gone.

Legends of the Half Light is a site on which there will appear serials, novels, stories and blogs, some of them generally science fiction and fantasy. . .

The first book to appear will be "Daughters of the Teardrop Sea". It tells the story of an exceptional child. A second book, which is a kind of ‘coming of age’ story, is called ‘Something Lyrical for the Night’. Your input is very welcome. Leave a comment if you like, or email me directly at hcooper@sympatico.ca .

Books, Serials, Blogs and Stories

Daughters of the Teardrop Sea
Laura is an accomplished twenty six year old psychiatric resident. She is happily in the sixth month of pregnancy. She is devoted to her work, equally devoter to her surgeon husband, when fate deals her an unannonced woe. Thrown into a world of desperate intensity she has only one goal. To save the life of her unborn child. The journey is long, but her will is strong also.

Invisible Childern
The world is in a tense calm. War seems to stubbornly threaten on the horizon. Diana is entering the first year of university in a small Ontario city with a special secret. She wants to be normal but it's hard. Everyone is unique, but for her that is part of the problem. Drawn into a controversial peace movement, Diana is introduced to many strong ideas. She does make good friends. The look of things is that her problem may actually be part of the sollution.

Something Lyrical for the Night
Sometimes the world is crazy.Sometimes, that insanity rubs off. Max faces a frightening dillemma: How do you choose between reality and illusion if both of them are true? Max sees things in a unique way.. Can anything set him straight?

The Solomon Stone
Three hundred years after the war that began at the end of 'Invisible Children' civilization is in ruins. Two young adults start off on a trek to find an object they know very little about. It is said to contain the seeds of the past, and the greatness: the Solomon stone.
This is a new serial novel, following 'Invisible Children', in the general series "The 300 Year War".