The Crinkling on the Pie

By Phillip Leighton-Daly

In the year 2050, probes are launched into deep space. Two dwarf planets orbiting around a sun are adjudged suitable for colonization. Just as the Quakers and Pilgrim Fathers established colonies in the New World, two religious sects, Greyce and Kaire, settle in space.

Both sects originate from the great teacher Christos, but fifty years later, each has evolved to bear little resemblance to the other—a trajectory not lost on a dangerous, militant civilization that has been scanning and observing the planets. Envoys are dispatched with devious intentions of colonizing Greyce and Kaire. After the self-proclaimed prophet and leader of Greyce is lured by the glamorous envoys into their shuttlecraft, all the colony’s parishioners quickly follow and vanish forever. Can Kaire resist this fate and progress toward a different future?

The Crinkling on the Pie explores today’s values of wealth, materialism, pleasure, youthfulness, and status through a fable set in space.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Aug 14, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796005462

Phillip Leighton-Daly

Phillip Leighton-Daly has worked for more than forty years as a schoolteacher, teaching throughout New South Wales. Currently he instructs infants and primary children in swimming and water safety for the NSW Department of Education and Training. He is the author of eight books on local history and holds diplomas in Bible studies and teaching. He lives with his wife and two children in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.

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