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Chandos Ring — Book One Argument.

The main character is Aaron, the last living member of a ruthless political dynasty responsible for the extinction of many non-western nations on a dying Earth. His intent is to create a race of men able to live without a carbon and oxygen base. This is his solution to ensure that humans will survive in a hostile universe outside of our solar system. Ultimately this will be the race of humans that colonize the galaxy without limitations of carbon-based life. Aaron feels he has no choice since the earth atmosphere has been made toxic by the release of radiation and the carbon-dioxide of an over-industrialized planet. Earth was already finished before Aaron was forced to reduce the populations of enemy countries. This war was the result of a coalition of nations against the Anglo-Saxon West.

Aaron's companion in this voyage to Jupiter is Talon, the greatest scientific mind of his age. Talon suffers from a rare bone disease and lives in a wheel chair. Talon has already secretly set in motion his plans to translate his own broken body into a new powerful life form based on methane and ammonia. Aaron and Talon have channeled their learning and science into the minds of their new race of men. Aaron has channeled the art of poetry into his creatures. Aaron's creatures think and communicate exclusively in poetry – as their first language. It is Aaron's passionate belief that man's singularity is poetry – not prose or science.

They begin their lives at Callisto moon by building giant factories that funnel up the minerals from the broken moon below. With these minerals Talon's factories produce an artificial ring-world around the small moon. Though dangerous, their audacious project is the best hope for the further survival of the mind of men beyond the nursery of the Earth. But things don't go as planned.

The crews of the thirty space ships become desperate after three years and the men are unable to support the pressures of space flight that never ends and never offers the hope of returning to Earth. The Earth was finally destroyed by Aaron’s last military commander, Vargus. Vargus arrives at Aaron’s station at Callisto moon after this last extinction on Earth. The conditions of life at Jupiter contain a new astrology and manifestation of life. The strangeness of new life is explored as Aaron faces the strangeness of his own being and the horrible acts he has committed on Earth. Facing this new condition of man at the edge of the solar system creates a space for new language and new poetry. Earth had long lost the possibility for new language and poetry. In an age of machines, only men create poetry, and men again make poetry after the Earth is put away in memory.