Author: Pat Gibson

  • Change or Chaos

    Serialization of this book will begin later this year. If you want to read the entire book, use this link: Amazon.com: Surviving Higgins World: Change or Chaos? eBook : Gibson, Patricia : Kindle Store

  • Chapter 1

    Farm 22, Utopia Colony, Higgins World…     “Connor, watch what you are doing!” Sarita darted away from the manure pitched down the wagon bed by her foster brother. The shovel’s worth of dung spattered down her fish hide boots but missed her coveralls. “You’ve seen the representative’s air car before.”     Her brother stood at…

  • Prologue

    Where it all began… This story began many years before our first scene when one Dignity Manfers, professor of Ancient European History was unable to retrieve his precious book from his locker in the Department of History at the Terran EurCon University. The security lock on the cabinet had again refused to recognize his handprint…

  • Back on Terra…

    I was reviewing some old records of colonization sales and saw an odd one. I mentioned it to my supervisor, and he told me much more than I expected.   “Oh, you’ve heard of Higgins World, not many have. My grandfather was on the expedition that found it. He told the story of its name…

  • Making a Transition…

    Making a Transition…

    I made a transition this week. Sitting in my reading chair, enjoying Katharine Esty’s 2019 book, Eightysomethings, I was inspired. I too needed to make a Transition as she describes in her book.

  • So, I am working on Book 3…

    So, I am working on Book 3…

    I am not sure where the story is going. I am not sure how I am going to get Megal and Sarita as leaders of the planet, but that is where I am heading. If you have read the first two, let me know. It will encourage me to keep going. After all, at 80,…

  • I will finish this book!

    “Alexander, the conqueror of the world; Julius, invader of Rome and of the world, who was the first to unite dominance in both war and arts within a single person…would not now be remembered, without the aid of books. Towers have been torn down; cities overthrown; triumphal arches have succumbed to decay; nor can either…