James Glass - Sedona Conspiracy

“Maybe someday both of us can go to Ariel. In a way, it’s like going home.”

“Home is right here—with you,” said Nataly, and she looked up at him.

Eric growled, and Nataly squealed as he swept her up in his arms and carried her back to their bedroom, and they made love again in a cloud of swirling colors.

Sedona Conspiracy is a work of fiction. I made it all up. A couple of restaurant names are real, or close to real, and the food is good. Area descriptions are accurate. I own two timeshares in Sedona, Arizona. I paint, drum and play didj there with friends. It’s one of my favorite places on this planet. It’s also considered by many to be the New-Age capital of the country.

New age culture, including UFOs, angels and aliens, is rich in Sedona. The literature is huge, and ranges from quackery to serious reporting. A lot of levelheaded, no-nonsense people have seen strange things in the Sedona area, and will tell you about it. They’ll tell you how the Sedona Fire Department once went into the backcountry to fight a raging fire and was turned back by armed soldiers in black Humvees. And in my own experience, hiking near the end of Long Canyon one day, I heard what sounded like a 747 taking off nearby. Okay, I’m a professional skeptic, a trained physicist who spent thirty years teaching and doing research in physics, but I’m the first to admit that theories are never proven, only disproved. And the mind must always be kept open to new possibilities.

Sedona Conspiracy started out with a ‘What If’. What if all of it is true? What if there really is a secret military base in the Sedona backcountry, and aliens really are living among us?

The rest was pure fun. Hope you enjoyed it.

1. Dongo, Tom, The Mysteries of Sedona. The New Age Frontier. Tom Dongo, Sedona, AZ. 1988

2. Dongo, Tom, The Mysteries of Sedona. The Alien Tide , Hummingbird Pub. Co., 1990

3. Nichols, Preston B. and Moon, Peter, Encounters in the Pleides: An Inside Look at UFOs , Sky Books, 1996

4. Andrews, George C., Extraterrestrials Among Us , Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul, Mn. 1986

5. Chatelain, Maurice, Our Cosmic Ancestors , Golden Temple Productions, Sedona, Az. 1988

James C. Glassis a retired physics and astronomy professor and dean who now spends his time writing, painting, and traveling. He made his first story sale in 1988 and was the Grand Prize Winner of Writers of the Future in 1990. Since then he has sold six novels and a short story collection, and over forty short stories to magazines such as Aboriginal S.F ., Analog , and Talebones . Jim writes science fiction, fantasy, and dark fantasy. He now divides his time between Spokane, Washington and Desert Hot Springs, California with wife Gail, who is a costumer and healing dancer. There are five grown children and eleven grandchildren scattered around the country. Jim also paints mountain, desert, and red rock scenics in oils and pastels, and is often heard playing didgeridoo and Native American flute. For more details, please see his web site at:

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Copyright © 2012 by James C. Glass

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