Temporal Cross Currents was a book project that I worked on now and then for a number of years. My lifestyle didn't practically support writing all at once, so I used that to advantage in writing a number of on going philosophical essays over time as new insight prevailed from reading and experience. So in the end I did get a science fiction novel that is quite philosophical.
A philosophical novel may take many forms. One thinks immediately of Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov given the philosophical novel description because of its somewhat existentialist way of viewing Russia. Dostoyevky may have been the world's best writer of prose fiction, I can't say. I enjoyed reading his books a lot, and I know that so far I am not the best writer of prose. At least I have developed a reasonable story line to float along the philosophical essays and cosmology.
Jean Paul Sartre wrote several good fiction novels such as 'Troubled Sleep' and 'The Age of Reason' as well as plays and short stories. He actually won a Nobel prize for writing and of course famously turned it down for the ill-effect that it might have on his work. I didn't have Sartre in mind when I was writing my composite, built up fiction story. It was really the short story dialogues of Bishop Berkley explaining the classical context of ideaism that I had in mind.
Berkley has a dialogue between to philosophically minded characters discussing the philosophical nature of perception with one explaining to the other that everything perceived by the mind could be sense impressions created by God on a mind-spirit.that is the individual. Because perception is interpreted by the mind rather than directly it is plausable. In fact everything perceived that for-itself is no more than physical force or percepts something else such as Leibnitz's monads or one-dimensional atoms is given an appearance in the mind. Because humans tend to experience those physical fact-stimulations in the same way the idea that a 'real' external world with objects existing for-themselves is created. Actually of course the reality of objects is in their pragmatic utility value traditionally. One knows the spacetime coordinates in the field where one can warm up if the temperature outside is 20 below zero.
My novel has a basic theme of something called the E-factor. A philosopher-entrepreneur of Mars named Patrick Voevoda looks into the nature of the E-factor that could be the hidden cause of evil. Mars colony as well as Y'Earth have entered a time of troubles because of the E-factor and learning more about that-is it a transcendent problem independent of individuals that seem to have it in politics and business-might be to the advantage in driving on toward bring peace to Mars and goodwill toward men and women..
Patrick Voevoda is a Christian philosopher so his deliberations have a focus surpassing the relativistic spacetime locales he finds himself in. The book is written in a light-hearted way inevitably since my main interest is in philosophy and the science of salvation and I am not the authority upon either subject-merely and interested individual writing something about those topics that occur in a secular world.
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