CURRENT OVERVIEW OF THE SERIES:

The PEREGRINATIONS OF PITUS PESTON is a science fiction series of five stories so far, about one young man's dream of gaining freedom from the chains that bound him to this world. If God really made man in His image, it wasn't what Michelangelo painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Peston believed it was something more fundamental. The likeness to the Almighty rested in the great gift of limitless imagination and the ability of man to see into the infinite. The big hitch in all of this and the root of Peston's turmoil is the notion that while God bestowed this boundless vision in his soul, he put it in a limited body that could not survive an attempt to witness His wondrous creation!

The truth was that God didn't shirk in granting Peston's wish; He just made him work hard for it. Peston was given the gift of linguistic genius. By the time of his eighteenth birthday, when the Peregrinations begin, Pitus was self-taught in nine terrestrial languages. He could have had a great life as a scholar, or, as his mother Caroline had hoped, as a preacher. Peston's eyes were not set on this low plane, but upward to the stars. He was convinced that there were people out there, and he wanted to meet them.

The chance came on a trip down the Hudson via a dilapidated leaky tobacco boat from his home town of Fort Edward to Albany City where he discovered a vary old wampum belt decorated with an otherworldly scene. And truly it was; the scene woven in that belt commemorated the visit by trans-galactic exiles of centuries before, wrought by a young Osage lad whose name at the time was Little Fox. When Pitus met him a hundred and fifty years later in 1808, his name had been changed to Kawa Hinga, (Great Old One). From the beginning, Pitus sensed that the secret behind the wampum sash was worth anything to solve it. He devoted countless hours to solving the riddle of the image in the belt. After five years and five thousand miles trekking through the American wilderness, his efforts paid off when he found the abandoned star ship of the exiles in the Arizona desert. He, with the help of a key between the Greek and the alien language, taught himself the alien tongue, entered their world and used their own technology to repair the derelict ship, thus becoming in 1811, the worlds first astronaut.(PITUS PESTON AND THE GODS OF OMAN)

Since then, Peston, in his adventures, has crossed the Milky Way six times, befriended princes and potentates on four planets, made a mortal enemy on a fifth. He learned of humanity's destruction in our near future, (EYES OF HARNUK), was captured by the army and locked up as an alien invader (LOOSE END), saved the Earth from thermonuclear incineration and rescued his 235 year old son from a trans-galactic kidnapping, (THE VENDETTA). Now, in this fifth episode, Pitus is tasked with saving our entire galaxy and its sister, Andromeda.

The Kan-Oxx-Voo, an extinct advanced culture of a million years ago, was irresistible to Pitus Peston. He had hopes of just finding a fragment or two of it, though this would fail to satisfy someone like him, that's for certain. Recall what is said about wishes: Take care what you desire, you just might get it? In PITUS PESTON AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF ROOLANDOO Pitus searches for that ancient fragment, and, like a freshly awakened predator, it catches him in its trap and swallows him. The big question is; How can he escape from it?

A Bromilian accidentally revived after lying in frozen stasis for a million years, seeks revenge on the extra-dimensional foe who not only killed him, but ten billion others on three planets. Vengeance feels good in the short run, but it is notorious for feeding on itself. So, in an attempt to prevent the deaths of billions, this vengeance seeker caused the destruction of trillions when the killer's killer is, in turn, avenged. All our fates rest in the hands of one man who can reverse this calamity. That man is none other than Pitus Peston.

PITUS PESTON AND THE GODS OF OMAN is the first book in the PEREGRINATIONS OF PITUS PESTON adventure series.

Imagine a young man who lived two hundred years ago in the primitive world of animal power and manual labor whose destiny seemed to be to work the small family farm along the upper Hudson Valley, but whose intellect soared far above his times and station. This young man dared to court the blasphemous dream of travel to other worlds and peoples out among the stars. His idols were men like Giordano Bruno who was burned for having the same dream. Capability without opportunity has doubtless wasted many an Einstein or Newton in the cotton fields but sometimes opportunity and capability converge, making for great possibilities.

PITUS PESTON AND THE GODS OF OMAN is about a dreamer of cosmic adventure who turned his dreams into reality. He was born into an unlikely time for space flight. When Thomas Jefferson was President the frontier was still east of Buffalo. The only way to reach this distant land was afoot or by horse. But there were other worlds whose time lines of development were not like our own. On some of these worlds the present state of Earth was in their dim past. About the time of the Mayflower, three travelers, exiles from the planet Oman, a world on the opposite spiral arm of Caleeron, their name for the Milky Way, crash land their craft atop a butte in what later became Monument Valley. They were unable to leave Earth and dispersed among humanity to live out their lives.

The year is now 1805, and Pitus Peston, an eighteen year old farmer's son endowed with a linguistic genius, discovers an old wampum belt bearing a strange image. It stirs his soul and he believes that the image on the belt is otherworldly and he determines to uncover its secret. Through an accumulation of clues he works his way toward solving the secret of the gods of Oman.

PITUS PESTON AND THE EYES OF HARNUK is the second episode in the PEREGRINATIONS OF PITUS PESTON.

Imagine a young man who lived two hundred years ago, whose destiny seemed to be to work the small family farm along the upper Hudson but whose intellect soared far above his times and station. This young man dared to dream a blasphemous dream of travel to worlds and peoples among the stars. Now imagine that he discovered not only a means of fulfilling his dream, but found himself in a quest to find a source of knowledge rivaling that of the Almighty Himself.

Pitus Peston who solved the riddle hidden in a wampum sash of the location of a derelict alien ship atop a butte in what is now Monument Valley, is journeying with his companion Calnoon Atoye Itah, a native of Oman, to this world on the opposite arm of the Milky Way. Atoye, eager to end his long exile and return home hopes to reward his friend Pitus with astounding scenes of his highly advanced civilization.

When they reach their distant goal, they find not the wonders of an advanced civilization but the ruins of war, but a new objective avails itself in the search for Loma's Cube, the seat of accumulated knowledge spanning the eons of the last era before the last Big Bang swallowed it up in the last Big Crunch. They are not alone in this quest. A rival from the planet Haldan, the other faction in what became known as The Thirty-Minutes War, seeks the cube for its secrets of propulsion and weaponry to make possible a new empire engulfing ultimately the whole galaxy.

PITUS PESTON AND THE LOOSE END is the third episode in THE PEREGRINATIONS OF PITUS PESTON adventure series. The time is ten years from now. John Hodiak is living in the original Peston house and finds evidence of Pitus Peston's life among the hidden places of the old house. Legends of ghostly apparitions and hidden gold enter into the plot which is actually the convergence of two story lines; one of John Hodiak on Earth and of Pitus Peston who is across the galaxy.

In GODS OF OMAN, Atoye, Kinar, and Rohab come to Earth to escape from their native world for a treasonous theft of drive programs by Atoye from a military space cruiser allowing him to soup up his own craft.

In the EYES OF HARNUK it was revealed that Kinar discovered one of the eyes was placed on earth an eon ago. The eyes led them to the center of the galaxy where was kept Harnuk's heart, an enormous data base containing the sum of galactic history and technology from the last cosmic era. In hopes of learning the bright futures of both Oman and Earth, they find instead imperial domination for Oman and total destruction for Earth because of something left there by the three travelers centuries ago.

Pitus has to return across the galaxy from Oman in order to reverse this fatal error and prevent global disaster.

PITUS PESTON AND THE VENDETTA Is the fourth episode in the PEREGRINATIONS OF PITUS PESTON adventure series. Pitus Peston is really on the spot. Returning to Earth to save it from corstet, an alien life prolonging plant, he gets captured by the army and is in a military base in the Nevada desert being debriefed on all of his advanced technology. When they are done, what will they do with a 235 year old man who has knowledge of extraterrestrials? They seem to have only two cruel choices. Will they keep him a permanent resident in some “Area 51” type place, forever cut off from the world, or just make him part of the Nevada landscape?

On the other side of the galaxy, Peston's alien friends, Calnoon and Kinar, two of three alien exiles whose ship Pitus discovered in the Arizona desert in 1811, and Orban, a renowned Oman official and scholar, wonder what is keeping Pitus from returning to them. Pitus is also in the sites of the third exile, Rohab, now a high ranking agent of the FBI, who has been trying to finish off Peston for nearly two centuries. If this weren't enough, there is also a ruthless crazy alien of the enemy planet Haldan, who wants nothing so fervently than to kill Peston, and is willing to travel across the galaxy to do it. This feeling is mutual of course, and is about to get intensified by the actions of this Haldi, and so starts the story of PITUS PESTON AND THE VENDETTA.

PITUS PESTON AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF ROOLANDOO

This is the fifth episode on THERE PEREGRINATIONS OF PITUS PESTON.  Back on Oman, his new home, Pitus has nothing much to do but explore. He was a treasure hunter, an amateur scholar, a man of means in this end of the galaxy.  He visited his friends on all five planets in the Local Group. Something though was bugging him. Could it be possible that he was getting bored?  Someone mentioned once again the old story about the glory days when sentient life ruled the entire galaxy, but was suddenly extinguished a thousand millennia ago. The thought of this Kan-Oxx-Voo, part legend and very scant fact, an extinct advanced culture of a million years ago, was irresistible to Pitus Peston. He had hopes of seeing just a fragment or two of it, though this would fail to completely satisfy someone like him, that’s for sure. You know what they say about wishing for things; “take care what you desire, you might just get it”? In this fifth episode, Pitus searches for that ancient fragment, and, like a freshly awakened predator, it swallows him whole. The next big question is; How can he escape from it?