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    Domers
    Domers
    Domers
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    Domers

    By David Couzins

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    Domers — a novel of high adventure that presents a future where Native Americans again live free in their traditional lands and it is the relative newcomers to America who have moved onto reservations to protect themselves from a dangerous world.

    In a world where liberty is lost, and where the sight of earth and sky is forbidden, one man fights to rediscover freedom...and himself.

    2080 A.D., the United States is a "virtual" country whose citizens have lived for sixty years under millions of family-sized domes, hermetically sealed with no windows and no access to The Outside where the rest of the world faces virus pandemics, riots inspired by worldwide economic chaos, and terrorists killing millions with nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons.

    Tom Corant is a US Army sergeant who fights battles all over the world by remotely controlling armed infantry robots from the safety of his bedroom. Tom is happy with life in the dome he was born into twenty-four years ago. Tom met, courted, and proposed marriage to Jenny Salem all on-line via the SuperNet, the high-bandwidth communications web that connects the 75 million dome homes that make up the United States of America.

    While the betrothed couple is being transported to their own dome to start their life together, they are kidnapped by a Mexican army patrol roaming the dangerous Outside. Tom and Jenny are rescued by Roving Wolf, a Comanche scout whose people (like all other Native American Indian nations) were exempted from mandatory doming and who now live free in their native lands among millions of buffalo in the reconstituted bison herds of the Great Plains.

    Roving Wolf is ordered to escort the couple across the desert Southwest where a multi-tribe Native American army is collaborating with the dome society’s military to repel an imminent invasion by the ambitious military dictator of Mexico. During their journey, Tom and Jenny are exposed for the first time to Nature and to Freedom. Tom comes to realize that the domes are prisons and he learns the truth behind the doming of America. Tom vows to free his family, fight against the system, to expose the government’s lies, and to someday make the Domers understand that the safety offered by dome life is not worth the price.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Couzins
    Release dateNov 8, 2010
    ISBN9780983086321
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    David Couzins

    David Couzins is the son of a career Air Force officer and is an honorably discharged veteran formerly assigned as an infantryman with the US Army’s 25th Infantry Division. Mr. Couzins participated in combat training and security operations throughout the Hawaiian Islands, in the Philippines, and Australia. Mr. Couzins spent the last dozen years working in large international law firms helping lawyers use computer technology to manage the millions of corporate documents involved in today’s high stakes commercial litigation and government investigations. After living twenty years in the Washington, D.C. area, Mr. Couzins now lives near Chicago with his wife and their three children.

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      (Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.)As I've said here before, I have kind of a soft spot for authors with big visions for their books, but who end up biting off a little more than they can chew, because I always feel it's better to try something big and slightly fail than to succeed at something that ultimately doesn't matter; and there's no more perfect example of this than David Couzins' Domers, a would-be science-fiction epic that doesn't quite cross all its Ts or dot all its Is, but gets extra points merely for being so ambitious in the first place. Set in the year 2080, the main premise is that America has grown so fearful of terrorist and biological attacks that they have voluntarily converted into a fully domed society, the populace now living in millions of little impenetrable bubbles and banned by law from ever leaving them, interacting with everyone besides your family via a series of multimedia tech devices. But of course the US still needs to be physically protected from outside threats, in particular a newly aggressive Mexican army who has been conducting an increasing series of raids into now unpopulated areas of the American southwest; so that's where the Native American population comes in, who had absolutely refused to comply when the US was first setting up its conversion into a domed society, which the government eventually agreed to not challenge in return for these Indian tribes essentially becoming a guerrilla fighting force protecting the country's southern border. The actual plot, then, concerns two young lovers who are about to get married and move into a new "starter dome," one of the only times in a person's life that they actually travel out of doors; when this couple is then attacked by Mexican raiders during their transit, then rescued by Native American forces, the events serve as an excuse for Couzins to explore and expound on the expansive conceptual universe he has created for this book.Now, let's make no mistake -- like many "high concept" sci-fi novels, Domers suffers from a series of logic problems, and the vast amount of backstory leads to a number of "exposition dumps" that slow the book's pace to a crawl. But that said, I'm specifically giving this book a half-point higher score than I normally would, expressly because I really liked this expansive backstory, a smart day-after-tomorrow extrapolation of our current times that contains a lot of originality; and I also appreciated Couzins' efforts to take this "Logan's Run" style sterile setting and incorporate much of the action into the dirty, gritty world of desert conflict and pre-industrial Native American villages. Although this particular novel has some deep flaws, and it shouldn't be mistaken for anything other than slightly above so-so, it also shows Couzins to be a writer of great promise, and I'm looking forward to the future books he might have for us down the road.Out of 10: 8.0

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