For no particular reason, as I lay in bed this morning listening to NPR, I suddenly had a blinding idea.
If I were an editor who handed out assignments, I would contract with Mr. S. Rushdie to write an alternative reality book.
I have often thought that there should be a world where the multi-verse doorways have been discovered. The pertinent one is located in Mecca and appears yearly during Hajj.
A Muslim physicist discovered the "Door to Paradise" (Great book title) that hops around the site and accounts for some the pilgrims disappearing during Hajj.
Pretty soon rumors of the Door enters the awareness of several billion Muslims, in particular the Rohinga. The worlds largest refugee camp starts to empty out and they are not showing up anywhere else. They show up in Mecca and some skip the rituals and walk through the Door, again it is a bit mysterious but a dead giveaway is a line of Muslims who simply walk into a spot of nothing as they circle the Kabba. The Door seems to be one way.
Life on the other side is in a strangely empty Arabian desert and the people begin to build and live their lives. Of course as other factions discover the Door some of the old problems start to exhibit and the situation calls for a truly brave leader to keep things calm.
Not sure how that would get handled but there has to be a miracle or two along the way. I can visualize how access to the Door, once its location and implications are discovered is monetized. Could get tricky.
I think this theme would easily extend to three books.
1. Door Into Paradise. 2. Well of ZamZam 3. Hajj. Now Mr. Rushdie, go forth and write, please.
If I were an editor who handed out assignments, I would contract with Mr. S. Rushdie to write an alternative reality book.
I have often thought that there should be a world where the multi-verse doorways have been discovered. The pertinent one is located in Mecca and appears yearly during Hajj.
A Muslim physicist discovered the "Door to Paradise" (Great book title) that hops around the site and accounts for some the pilgrims disappearing during Hajj.
Pretty soon rumors of the Door enters the awareness of several billion Muslims, in particular the Rohinga. The worlds largest refugee camp starts to empty out and they are not showing up anywhere else. They show up in Mecca and some skip the rituals and walk through the Door, again it is a bit mysterious but a dead giveaway is a line of Muslims who simply walk into a spot of nothing as they circle the Kabba. The Door seems to be one way.
Life on the other side is in a strangely empty Arabian desert and the people begin to build and live their lives. Of course as other factions discover the Door some of the old problems start to exhibit and the situation calls for a truly brave leader to keep things calm.
Not sure how that would get handled but there has to be a miracle or two along the way. I can visualize how access to the Door, once its location and implications are discovered is monetized. Could get tricky.
I think this theme would easily extend to three books.
1. Door Into Paradise. 2. Well of ZamZam 3. Hajj. Now Mr. Rushdie, go forth and write, please.
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