Third Foundation Revealed by Dean Auger
Trade Cloth: 6" x 9" 360 pp. ISBN: 978-1-59663-681-1, $18.95.   Special Introductory Price: $16.95

Can a genetically-engineered group of super-smart, super-attractive, super-nice children survive on their adoptive planet inhabited by bloodthirsty, murderous, super-not-very-nice creatures who roam the surface?

About the book
    Second Foundationers hope to raise their optimally educated, super-smart children to be as nice as possible; unfortunately, being goody-goody nice all the time would mean getting eaten alive if any of them ever dared venture up to their adoptive planet’s hellish surface. The Founders had easily foreseen that Katy and the other gentle, cooperative, peace-loving children would have to be, at appropriate times, tough as nails if they were to survive on this carnivorous world inhabited by numerous competing species of bloodthirsty, murdering creatures that roamed the planet’s surface.
    In addition, their nightmarish planet is also populated by large numbers of ferocious, pea-brained, humanoid creatures. These beings would be more terrifying to young Second Foundation children than any mentally deranged boogieman that the gentle reader could possibly imagine.
    Futuristic ingraining methods needed to be developed that would allow their pacifist, non-confrontational children to cope with the hellish conditions on the planet’s blood-soaked surface without damaging the children’s programmed niceness!
    This is the period in their children’s education all Second Foundation parents have come to dread. The disbelieving children cry and wail. Those little ones with exceptionally tender, compassionate hearts become so hysterically distraught that they often beat their heads empathically against the walls and have to be physically restrained. Our five-year-old children frantically and tearfully sob:
        War—absolutely impossible!
        Murder—absolutely impossible!
        Slavery—absolutely impossible!
        Torture—absolutely impossible!
    Our tearful, crying parents would plead for some semblance of reason. “We know that’s how human history should have been if only early humans were at least as smart as …”
    The fate of all the countless human-inhabited planets of the Galaxy now lies in our relatively few, collective hands. If we have committed a heinous crime by daring to play God in order to create an as-close-to-perfect human being as technically possible, then let it be known that to continue with mindless inertia in the same, old, psychologically blind educational tradition would be nothing more than pure, mindless insanity!
 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dean Auger is a Utopian Agnostic Philosopher.