Stranger World

WELCOME TO THE (Not-So) HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH! What would you do if you awoke in a futuristic, self-sustaining Theme Park gone horribly wrong? A home to homicidal monarchs, ravenous dinosaurs, flying steamships and Victorian tea parties that would drive a Hatter Mad. Amidst this chaos a downed helicopter pilot searches for his kidnapped daughter, a snarky Leftenant fights to reclaim her lost airship and a French microbiologist from a distant future struggles to learn the truth. Thank You For Coming! You Can Never Leave. For over a quarter of a century I have worked at theme parks all over the world and I have often wondered, What if all of these fantastical lands, and everything in them, what if all of it...was real? What if the characters weren't costumed characters but living, breathing and evolving things, and worse still, they became our overlords? A rough outline based on this very premise would sit in my night table drawer for nearly twenty-five years. Then, one day, my nine-year-old daughter was sick with the worst flu she hadn't ever gotten in her life. For a week all she could do was little more than sleep. To pass the time I picked up the outline where I had left off and I would write her a chapter a day. And then, each night, I would read her what I had written. This went on for several days, and before long we were so both so invested in the characters, that those characters demanded we finish the story. Which we did. I hope you enjoy it. At the time of this writing I have already completed Book II and outlined the overall story arc for the next 12 books. My daughter and I hope you will join us, along with the snarky Leftenant, gargoyle-butler Cheeves and a host of other strange and wonderful characters aboard her majesty's Air Ship, The Dauntless. Our course? 2nd Star to the Right, and straight on until morning.