The
Dream of the Forest
by
Stjepan Varesevac Cobets
Genre:
SciFi Romance Adventure
The
year is 2197. More than one hundred years have passed since the
natural destruction of the Earth's surface. The surviving inhabitants
are now living in Heavenly Cities high above the clouds with no
intention of ever descending back to the unstable surface
again.
Helen
is a lawyer who lives in one of those cities. Her life is almost
perfect, but very soon she is going to find out that it was all just
an illusion as her dreams scatter like leaves in the wind and the
only thing left for her to return to will be her hometown.
But
on her way home, an almost fatal car accident on the heavenly highway
turns her life in a drastically new direction. Helen finds herself
crashing down onto the earth's destructive surface and landing in a
forest world that is completely alien to her with a million and one
questions and very few answers.
The
number 1 question being - is it really true what the government told
her and the surviving population that no one ever survived down on
Earth? Well, what if the truth was the complete opposite? What if
there really were survivors?
As
Arn observed, thick smoke gushed from the front of the car and small flames
appeared off them, engulfing the front of the car. One hundred yards from the
place where he stood, huge flames surrounded a parachute that soon disappeared
into the inferno. The car fell into a dense crown of trees and disappeared from
his sight.
Using
tangled vines, Arn descended from the top of the large tree where he rested and
headed for the crash site. He knew the person injured in the interior of the
car would need his help. As he approached the crash site, the unpleasant smell
of burned plastic and thick smoke filled his nostrils. The front of the car was
destroyed and on fire. The entire interior was filled with thick, white smoke.
Arn reached the vehicle and tried to get inside, but he hit his nose on a
strange transparent material. He looked within. In the thick smoke, he
perceived a woman’s hand. Heat flapped at his face from the burning front of
the car. He had to pull out the woman or she would to death.
Arn
tried to break the strange, transparent material by hand but it did not crack.
He needed something hard to break it, so he looked at his surrounding. He saw a
stone, picked it up, and struck the wall with it. To his surprise, the
partition burst into a thousand, small, rectangular pieces. Arn cleared the
sharp edges and tried to pull the woman out of the car. However, something was
tying her to the seat. With his hand, he felt a belt around her chest. He
pulled a knife from his belt and cut the strap.
In 2197 and it has been more than a hundred years since the
destruction of Earth. People live about Earth’s surface in a controlled
environment now under a dome. People who live in the Heavenly Cities have been
told stories about life on Earth’s surface and have desire to ever live there
again.
A young woman, a lawyer Helen’s life takes a turn that she
never saw coming and starts to spiraling out of control. She is on her way to
her mom’s when she is involved in an accident on the highway and she goes
careening off the side of the road and falls down to Earth’s surface below.
Helen is trapped in the car and would have died there if it
were not for Arn a man who lives on the Earth’s surface. Arn is in the forest
for his initiation to becoming a Shaman. Helen was very lucky that anyone was
there especially a Shaman.
Arn says he can take Helen to a place where she can make it
back home but they have a lot of forest to travel through before they reach
their destination. They run into a nice you man John on the way who informs
them that a tribe came to his village and killed almost everyone except the
women whom they kidnapped for their own pleasure. Arn, Helen and John try to
make it to safety before this tribe catches them but they do run into them on
occasion. Can they make it to their destination safely? Will the tribe catch
them before they get there?
The Dream of the Forest is a very enthralling read once you
get into the story and start to see what is going on and meet all the
characters. I loved seeing how Helen and Arn interacted with each other. Helen
always had a comeback to anything anyone ever said. She tickled be to death as
the saying goes. If nothing else I enjoyed reading The Dream of the Forest for
just that reason but of course that is not the only reason. The plot and the
characters were very intriguing and it was very interesting to try and figure
out how all the characters stories were going to intertwine.
I would recommend The Dream of the Forest to all fans of
dystopian or science fiction fans.
Stjepan
Varesevac-Cobets was born on 12 September 1965 in Split, Croatia. He
lives and works in Kastel Sucurac, where he finished his elementary
and secondary schooling.
At
a very young age, he started reading and loved it because, through
books, he traveled to places he could never visit in person. As a
child, he loved fairy tales and adventure but later discovered other
genres. When he found a Jules Verne book in the library, he became
fascinated by science fiction. He has been writing poetry for fifteen
years and has started writing science fiction. Lately, he has also
written children's fairy tales and fables.
He
has published, in Croatia, "An Opened Heart" in 2002, "The
Sleepy Way" in 2005, and "Love" in 2006. On Amazon he
has published the poetry collections "The Child of Happiness"
in 2015, science fiction novel "Godeena" in 2015, the
science fiction short story "Butterfly" in 2016, the poetry
collection "When the moon takes over the dream: Love Poetry"
in 2016, and in 2017 the poetry collection "The Flaming Horses:
Collection of poetry". He also translated his new Sci-Fi novel
"The Dream of the Forest".
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