My book The Spartan She-hound and the Merchant Mariner was released today by Amazon. It is Part Two of a seven-part series of books that will be released incrementally over the next thirty months. Each book is a meditation on a different crisis in Western civilization and the titles and subtitles of the seven-part series are as follows:

Part One – THE MAGUS FROM SYRIA THAT KILLED SOCRATES: An allegory from the time before Intelligence became Artificial

Part Two – THE SPARTAN SHE-HOUND AND THE MERCHANT MARINER: The lost legend of a Spartan spy in the time of Alexander the Great

Part Three – THEURGY:  Tales of Numerology and God Making in the Near East

Part Four – IN THE EMPIRE OF THEOLOGIANS: Legends of the Mathematical Underground

Part Five – ALGORITHMS OF POLITICAL MIGHT: The Mercantilist Reckoning of “Knowledge is Power”

Part Six – BEYOND EXPLICIT AUTHORIZATION: The Soulless Algorithm that haunted Privy Councilor Gauss

Part Seven – THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL ERUDITION: The Paradox of Information without Meaning.

This work is intended to present the results of an inquiry into the sources of the present crisis of Western Civilization that I undertook beginning in February 2015 as I had announced at the time. I chose to present the results of my inquiry in the literary form of historical fiction because it is my intention to address persons that still retain the rapidly disappearing faculty of enjoying the leisurely reading of text printed on physical paper pages.

Part One of the series will be released 3-6 months after the release of Part Two. As I am working simultaneously on different sections of the seven-part series, I hope, God willing, to complete publication of this work by the Spring of 2029.