Lynard Barnes

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Lynard Barnes

Contact the Author: lynardbarnes@tricespublishing.com

Products: Rolun (Authorhouse, 1999)

About the Author

Lynard Barnes was born in rural Social Circle, Georgia where he spent his first seven years before moving to Chicago in 1957. A product of the “turbulent” 60s’ he served thirteen months in the Republic of Vietnam as a U.S. Marine and has spent the last forty years synthesizing the experience as a microcosm of life in general. His novels, ROLUN and PHOBUS LOCK are snippets of that synthesis. He started writing short stories at seventeen with numerous rejections to Alfred Hitchcock and Fate magazines, among others. After military service, he wrote computer tutorial articles for national magazines. One of those articles, published in the November 1981 issue of 80 Microcomputers, inspired a few “system” programmers to breakout of the computer-oriented approach to programming and look at real-world emulations. He developed and marketed computer software and taught adult education classes for the City Colleges of Chicago and the Chicago Public Library. In 1994, he launched [Trices Book Review Journal,] which has been in continual publication in one form or another. The TBRJ has become a source of quotes in numerous online blogs by authors and book readers. To date, he has completed four novels, two of which are published, and continues work on two others. ROLUN is the second in his sequence of novels. Lynard lives with his wife in Chicago where he is a program analyst.

About the Book

It is the twenty-second century.

It is a time of perfect minds in perfect bodies. Practically every aspect of life is ran by committees and councils—entities without personalities, only acronyms. Into this society of pristine dedication and ostentatious perfection, into this post-America type democracy calling itself the “brotherhood”, falls Rolun.

Born into the wealthy and powerful Jarvis pharmaceutical dynasty, the seventeen year old Rolun Jarvis, at the age of passage, is rendered sterile. A genetic flaw makes her undesirable as a progenitor. She accepts this consequence of her physical imperfection because she is totally in tune with the "mindset" of the times: the perfect mind in the perfect body.

At the same time she is prevented from having children, she is told she has been elevated to one of the highest, though materially inconsequential, positions the society has to offer. She has been made a candidate to the High Council of the World Body of Governing Democracies. It is the most secret of secret councils; the most powerful of all councils and though many candidates are selected and groomed, few serve. Dennis Samson, her eighty-six year old "guardian" to the council and, unknown to Rolun, a senior High Council member himself, will guide her career for the next six years as she goes through indoctrination college and on to her temporary community service job as a military instructor. She comes to realize that not only is she being ostracized from the society to which she is devoted, but that there are powerful forces intent on destroying both her father and herself.