Planet Literature

Excerpts from Rothilda von Rotortod’s Novel Overturned – How Aliens Tried to Conquer the World with Wind Turbines/3

Maggie Rhode, protagonist of the novel „Overturned“, once moved from the city to the countryside to be closer to nature. On a walk through the woods, she enjoys the veil of mist that conceals the newly erected wind turbines.

About the Novel

After the invention of a rejuvenation pill, space and resources threaten to become scarce on planet Kadohan. The only way out is the search for a replacement planet. The choice is made for the planet „Earth“. Unfortunately, however, this planet is already inhabited …

Metamorphosis

The fog robes hung in the bare bones of the oaks as if they were interwoven with them. It seemed as if their gnarled skeleton was bathed in the breath of an invisible sorceress, who revived them and at the same time transformed them into other, unknown forms of life. Weightlessly the dark arms meandered through the billowing nothingness. A motionless silence prevailed, only bro­ken now and then by the dance of a leaf as it embarked on its fi­nal journey.

The Fog Cave

Maggie took a deep breath. She was pleased with the fog that had risen in the morning. Of course, as she knew very well, this pointed to a sunny, bright day. But at least for this morning walk through the forest, she found refuge in the cave of mist.

For a few hours she could imagine that everything was back to the way it used to be: that behind the scrawny leaf dress of the trees there was no blinking and flashing like at a highway con-struction site; that the broad track she was walking on had not been cut to transport the giant steel towers and wings of wind turbines through the forest; that the mound at the end of the path had not been pierced by wind turbines, but still allowed the free flight of the view over the sea of hills.

Life Behind Reinforced Concrete Bars

She had always liked the fog: this pause of life in which things withdrew into themselves and thus became recognisable in their essence. But unfortunately, the beauty of nature was now exclu­sively visible through the filter of a fog fantasy.

The cotton candy dreams of a winter morning, the ghostly flickering of a hot summer day, the miracle of a spring awakening, when life suddenly sprouted out of the winter hollow – all this was overshadowed by the enormous reinforced con­crete bars, for which „magic“ meant nothing more than the con­version of moving air into industrially usable energy.

from: Rothilda von Rotortod: Overturned (PDF and ebook)

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