The Style of Fiction - Beyond War
Unlike geomancy, steampunk, magic, and science fiction based on conventional physics, the world of Beyond War embraces a super-science approach to technology that conveys how small and incomplete our knowledge of physics, energy, and matter really are. It restores the sense of mystery without creative a pseudo religious heiarchy of gods, demons, relics, sacred or emotionally-codependent forces of nature or wishing, or other conventional shtick of modern fiction.

In essence, a QSR unhooks our horse from the buggy of modern moral fables, and lets something that could be described as pure concentrated power drop into the hands of a relatively ordinary human being with no idea what the consequences will be or how it works. Unlike past fiction in this genre, the story remains true to the scientific and academic genre of individual free will and individual choice against the wishes and expectations of society at large - putting a stick big enough to remind society its place in the hands of an iconoclast character.

In Beyond War, these power sources are the only effective way to travel from solar system to solar system and between galaxies. However, something very horrible known as "The Cataclysm" occured, after a war betwen QSR-enabled civilizations covered the Universe. In that event, almost all life was wiped out - some in the middle of High Tea. This event, known (since publication in 2001) as "The Cataclysm", foreshadows a dangerous secret risk in the final stages of QSR development or use that still affects our characters.

The story of Beyond War follows the development of this "Cataclysm" event, leading the players to understand better the nature and potential dangers of QSR technology - while meeting the various factions involved in The War, and learning what motivated the construction of such a dangerous unpredictable technology.

Beyond War was written by James Arnold Allen of Ada (Oklahoma, USA), in 1996 as supporting fiction for the video wargame "Beyond War", and developed the storyline for sustainable power supplies and unlimited fuel models in the game mechanics and fiction in 1997-1999. The name QSR was chosen prior the renewed production of Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who (new series), and other popular revivals of the genre which initially entertained James in his childhood (1970s). James is the owner of Shadowdancers L.L.C. and shareholder of interest in Raccoon Technologies Incorporated, the distributor of "Beyond War".

Due to disputes relating the kidnapping of his child and denial of lawful trial by the State of Texas, Mr. Allen has been in hiding from 2002-2007 due threats of murder supporting his son's kidnapping in 2001 August 11th. He is presently seeking damages and criminal charges for the violation of his rights and injury to his child caused by 9 years of baseless concealment on the foundation of threat of murder in kidnapping, detailed at: http://www.adaok.org/

The story, plot, and themes Mr. Allen predicted were relevant to his fiction brought significant public ridicule and support of his child's kidnapping in 1997-2010, including the protracted Iraq and Afganistan occupations, terrorism policies, erosion of human rights, religious and socialist rise to power of factions in the United States, and the oppression of individual rights for which Beyond War was written to highlight and champion. Retaliation through family separation (genocide) for these beliefs is the alleged motive in the kidnapping and 9 year baseless concealment of his child, so prohibited by U.S. Treaty (CPPCG, 1988).

Mr. Allen was, himself, sold as a child - and his child's kidnapping seeks to obtain funds from his adoptive family via blackmail, exotrtion, and no lawful cause aided by State and Federal agents in written admissions contrary the law of the United States. Law enforcement has refused to help him, fearing it would expose the 3 million Americans equally violated by policies and criminal negligence of the States and Federal agents (American Bar Association, 1990-2010 estimate). Denied his own child and the victim of genetic abnormality which led to persecution in his home town of Ada (Oklahoma, USA) for decades, Mr. Allen is a staunch enemy of the eugenics movement, socialism, Marxism, and State Sovereignty movement of the Republican Party - which Beyond War and its media take issue with to ridicule and disprove through social literature and parables of human dignity.

The Quantum Singularity Reactor is, in this function, a character essential to these stories and protected under copyright and trademark treaty (The Berne Convention) from imitation or reproduction without Mr. Allen's permission. Efforts to copy the content, or to defame it by comparison of coincidental or similar works based on magic, superstition, or fiction, are explicitly denied any basis. Mr. Allen does point out that similar ideas have been used in Steampunk, Doctor Who, Time Bandits, Slayers, Men In Black, and fiction dating to Celtic legends of Arthur Pendragon and Gilgamesh. However, never with a scientific approach or scale of this order, nor moral objective to relevant political satire.

Uncertainty is a huge aspect of Beyond War, unlike most Western fiction. To wit, a good comparison is when the hero stumbles at the last minute and the villain runs him through, and then has to figure out what to do next after that job is finished. This unchecked realism makes the work of Beyond War more edgy and unsuitable for minors in the opinion of Mr. Allen.

The fiction of Beyond War is written for adults, who have already developed a sense of right and wrong, as well as the understanding that life goes on regardless outcomes. The lack of a clear "good and evil" in the fiction of James Allen, is less a matter of equal merit as it is least resistance: Villians act because they can, and heroes act because they must - rather than be oppressed or complicit with oppression and genocide. Both represent evil, in a conventional sense of abandonment of due process - yet the "lesser evil" is often shocking in its methods and unhinged from society once it begins its actual rise to overturn the threat - often at the expense of society at large.

This fundamental moral that "society loses its vote" and rights when such an event occurs, are recurring throughout the fiction, illuminating the contempt for the consensus and wisdom of society and the group established by Mr. Allen's own personal experience and views. At the core of the work is the fundamental question of what constitutes "the right to resist", and at what stage that right is ever morally questionable - despite the democratic consensus.