Charles
Freedom Long has written an exceptional book in Dancing With the Dead. The
writing is crisp, clear, and powerful. The science fiction world he creates
contains sufficient remnants of today to capture readers with honesty,
believability, and trust. In this
respect, shades of the great SF writer, Isaac Asimov, appear. I once asked
Asimov, over lunch, how he could create his worlds of the future with such
honesty. He told me to read the non-fiction university textbooks he wrote. Truth is always borne of reality. Even
piercing the veil of death, Charles Freedom Long manages to hold our
credibility. He coats the sometime-overbearing spiritualism of the afterlife
with intelligence, change, growth, and love. He turns Scandinavian traits into
an alien race of goddesses. And because his writing approaches literary magic,
he makes us believe in languages we have never heard and ideas we can only hope
to grasp. Well done, Charles Freedom Long. (Temple Emmet Williams, former
editor at The Readers Digest, award-winning journalist and author.) December 9, 2015
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