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"What experience and history teach is this – that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history.”

- Hegel

 

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.”

- Erich Fromm

 

"Facit indignatio versum” - Rage powers my poetry.

 

- Juvenal

"Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer."
-Sir Humphry Davy

“He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gazeth long into the abyss, the abyss gazeth also into thee.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

“Wine is sunlight held together by water.”
-Galileo Galilei

“When industries and technologies are based on land and sunlight, they will bring employment and wealth to rural populations."
-Freeman Dyson
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
- Mark Twain

“But why must the Argives fight the Trojans? Why did Atreus’ son assemble and bring us? Wasn’t it for Helen’s sake? Are Atreus’ sons the only men who love their wives?”
- Achilles, speaking to Odysseus in Homer’s Iliad, Book IX, Lines 336-340

“Si vis pacem, para bellum”
– Latin Saying. If you wish for peace, prepare for war.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
- Edmund Burke

“Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.”
- Seneca, Epistles

 

"The hatred and contempt of the oppressed masses are increasing, and the physical and moral forces of the wealthy are weakening; the deception on which everything depends is wearing out...To return to the old ways is not possible; only  one thing is left...to hope that "things will last my time" – after that let happen what may. That is what the blind crowd of the rich are doing, but the danger is ever growing and the terrible catastrophe draws near."

- Leo Tolstoy

Welcome to E.A. Ospina's website. Please enjoy the free short stories, novel excerpts, and poems you'll find in these pages. Scroll down for novel covers and teasers. See the right hand tabs for an inventory of available works.

 

Short Story Highlights

Return From Atlanta - He met her on the plane flight back from Atlanta at a dark moment in both their lives. What might have been was strangled by what was, burned like her ex-boyfriend's truck in the wet silence of a far-Brooklyn night.

Bad Engineering – What happens when the world receives a blunt message from an approaching alien armada? The Stranger’s Revolution. What future lies in store for the colonists that are sent out on arkships to preserve humanity and the purity of the new Revolutionary ethos? Bad Engineering. What dark secrets does a certain scarred pilot on Arkship 9 harbor, and how will they affect the life of the boy only he knows to be his son?

Owl in the Oak: The Siege of Opteos and Other Fragments – Translated fragments reveal the story of Pyroen the swordsman and his uncle Ythevni as they travel a post-apocalyptic land exploring the mysteries of an ancient artifact from our present time.

Othryadas Lost – Marooned on a frozen planet plunging towards a star, the last surviving human being has only Herodotus and his AI Capsules for company as he attempts to survive the Sunstorm to come.

Novel Excerpts

Brokensong - A broken narrator greets the new year in 2008 with a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of scotch, bought with unemployment insurance. While civilization dances like a drunken devil on the edge of a cliff, he will experience heartbreak and redemption, travel to a homeland that is no longer home, prove himself on the campaign trail, and forge meaning in a crazy and amazing world.

Before the Sun Drinks the Sea - An anti-hero travels the ravaged land of a post-apocalyptic America in search of redemption and meaning, while alien visitors set up a dark empire from their towerships and prepare for the arrival of the machines that will burn the Earth's seas to make it habitable for their kind. Can the divided people of a ravaged Earth unite in time to stop them?

Categorical Imperative - In a future of bio-engineering and a Corporate colonized solar system, Jed Hoffer is a spy in one of the premier intelligence firms - he and his childhood friends, the journalist James Waters, the bio-engineer Larry Bergman, and Ogodan, Archduke of Darkside Pommeria, will find themselves facing off against one another and the forces of history as a miner's revolution in the Belt clashes with the dark strategies of fanatical bio-terrorists amidst an interplanetary cold war between the remnants of a Post-Apocalyptic America and the hungry Corporate power of a new China ruled by an android bent on mass human assimilation.

 

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