Lay of the Land

Get ready for the greatest humor riddled epic satire of all time... No, that ain't it... Cowboys in Space!  hmmm... they don't wear cowboy hats?!  Ahhh... Cowboy is a state-of-mind.  Ever wonder what our world is deep down, really truly like?  Well, right now, and light years away, exists the Quantum civilization that has come of age, after running the gauntlet of ecological collapse.  Now, it is the Quantums duty to bring the option of balance to their neighboring planet inhabitants.  Teach the "Spirit of Life".  Little do the Quantums know that getting mixed up in the affairs of money grubbing weasels, the Strokes and the Imeons, will lead them into the depths of genetic experimentation, sexual perversion, a mind-blowing war with gigantic GMO creatures, and the potential of turning their "Spirit of Life" ethics into ground meat death.  Oh... and GOD shows up.  Tells the Quantums about the dark evil secret coming from outside.  Another mission for the Quantums.  Time to Cowboy Up!  This epic story is not "Star Trek" or "Star Wars".  It's the "Lay of the Land"!  Happy Trails.


Author Bio - Just when you thought the last of the real cowboys were extinct from too many rodeos and late night hooch soaked booty calls from women in tight western jeans, comes writer Paul Garmisch.  A true renaissance man that has lived to fill his bucket list.


Born in Chicago 1952, raised during high school on a northern Illinois dairy farm, college at the U of Montana for 7 years studying forestry, geology, and other environmental sciences while working his way through college operating heavy earth moving equipment in Missoula gravel pits, a fraternity house manager, a sorority house waiter, and playing music in the local taverns... yes, Paul is a professional musician (string bass and cello).


After college Paul went to work for 20 years in Montana and Wyoming.  Lumberjack, cattle ranching, placer gold mining, log home construction, forest fire fighter, ski mountaineer, snow avalanche control, wilderness search and rescue, big game hunter, and the list goes on for this well-seasoned outdoorsman.


While doing all of this, Paul had his Arts hobby, Model Builder and Wildlife Sculpting, which he turned into a new career in 1990 working as a professional artist/architectural model maker, project manager and general manager, specializing in dioramas for companies in San Francisco, Phoenix Arizona and Chicago.  This lasted until the 2008 economic crash.  Then Paul went back to placer gold mining in northern California.


Through all of the numerous trials and tribulations of life in general, married life (28 years if all three are added up), and having 4 sons, Paul started to note a thing or two about this crazy world we come parading into buck naked and crying.  Paul decided to write, and his mind collided into a cornucopia of extra high proof storytelling, with a message about real life on Earth from this Homer of the west.  "Humor cures all" says Paul, and his stories are loaded with it.  Too much fun!!   


Key Words – Humor, Satire, Cowboy, Space, Sci-Fi, Quantums, Genetic, Experimentation