Sehn's Quest

The book is a political fantasy revolving around the central character Sehn – Sehnsucht, the longing but never attaining of Utopia. It starts as Sehn’s unexpected act of heroism finds him through the power of the cyberworld on the US Supreme Court. He engages in several polemics with his associate justices, notably on the control of the individual over their own bodies. After a pyrrhic victory he leaves the court with the overturn of Roe. He becomes the PM of the UK in the vacuum left by Liz Truss and again through the cybersphere, strengthened by subterranauts binds up a nation from which Sehn goes on to strive to calm an increasingly confrontational and toxic planet. It comprises a series of vignettes dealing with key value issues of the day at both the political and personal level. The reader is left wondering if Sehn does manage to depolarize a fragile world.