The "Summer of Love" - A Sneak Peek

                                                                The Year is 1967 , It is the Summer of Love - The Psychadelic 60's Era . Home of Sweet Home Alabama and The Beatles.

Today readers I give you a sneak peek into Summer of Love - A Time Travel Novel written by Lisa Mason done through a couple of Chapter Excerpts, a Product Description and a review posted on Amazon.


Summer of Love -A Time Travel Novel - Lisa Mason

Product Description


The year is 1967 and something new is sweeping across America: good vibes, bad vibes, psychedelic music, psychedelic drugs, anti-war protests, racial tension, free love, bikers, dropouts, flower children. An age of innocence, a time of danger. The Summer of Love.
San Francisco is the Summer of Love, where runaway flower children flock to join the hip elite and squares cruise the streets to view the human zoo.
Lost in these strange and wondrous days, fourteen-year-old Susan Bell, alias Starbright, has run away from the straight suburbs of Cleveland to find her troubled best friend. Her path will cross with Chiron Cat’s Eye in Draco, a strange and beautiful young man who has journeyed farther than she could ever imagine.
With the help of Ruby A. Maverick, a feisty half-black, half-white hip merchant, Susan and Chi discover a love that spans five centuries. But can they save the world from demons threatening to destroy all space and time?
In SUMMER OF LOVE, A TIME TRAVEL, Lisa Mason has totally remastered her previous classic, SUMMER OF LOVE, and added a delightful new cover and thirty new drawings by Tom Robinson.



Chapter Excerpt #2 :
August 8, 1967

Inquest for the Ungrateful Dead
13

Are You Experienced?
With a sly smile, Nance blows smoke in Susan’s face. “You’re mad at me, huh.”
“I’m not mad at you.”
“Well, don’t be. You’re the only person in the whole world I don’t want mad at me.”
Susan wants to weep at the sorrow in her voice. Nance Payne, the pretty little dark-haired girl from Euclid Heights. The edge of mockery suggests that Susan has betrayed her, too, along with the rest of the world.


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Copyright © 2010 by Lisa Mason.
Cover art and drawings © copyright 2010 by Tom Robinson
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Summer of Love, A Time Travel
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Chapter Excerpt #1

July 27, 1967
Rumors
10
Dedicated to the One I Love

Susan lounges with Cyn on the grass in the Panhandle, keeping an eye out for cop cars. She takes a mauve chalk from her box of pastels and draws two eyes on the sidewalk. The police have been busting sidewalk chalk artists on the charge of defacing public property, not to mention sweeping hip girls off the street on suspicion of being runaways. It’s strange and exciting to feel like an outlaw, drawing chalk pictures on the sidewalk.
Copyright © 2010 by Lisa Mason.
Cover art and drawings © copyright 2010 by Tom Robinson.
All rights reserved.
Summer of Love, A Time Travel

Review from rash67 (USA) featured on Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Summer-Love-Time-Travel-ebook/dp/B003OIBGLC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=A3QI763M62X7GQ&s=digital-text&qid=1281420654&sr=1-1)

I think it's a great book. The level of character development is much higher than what we have come to expect in Scifi-Fantasy.

Most books on the late sixties are distorted nonsense. Hippies sitting around a campfire singing kumbaya. Lisa Mason has done a meticulous job of researching what the sixties were REALLY like, not the normal candy-coated version of them usually presented. To research this book Lisa Mason read 1967-68 back issues of the Berkley Barb and other Bay Area sixties publications. The "psychedelic" sixties were far different from the way they are normally portrayed, both in movies and books.
In 1967, one could go to the Fillmore and see The Doors, The Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Mamas and the Papas, the Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, HP Lovecraft, legendary groups almost any night. Of the bands would just go set up in Golden Gate Park (at the end of Haight Street) and give a free concert just because they felt like it! There was an assumption that this quality of music would last forever. There was a naive optimism about the future mixed with the omnipresent paranoia about the Man or the System. The wide open experimentation with drugs and life styles. The idea that anyone who dressed like you was your brother/sister. If you just had long hair, you were a member of a worldwide fraternity. "Summer of Love" shows the bright happy free side of the Summer of Love, but also the dark side of "free love". Someone with bell-bottomed pants and bare feet might hitchhike across the country to San Francisco with little or no money because a friend was there (somewhere) and a record said in the "Summer of Love", all you needed was a "Flower in Your Hair". There were individual & local acts of giving and charity: The Diggers, the Haight-Asbury Free Clinic, the Hashbury shop owner who gives Starbright a place to stay. These were mixed with the fundamentally unsupportable nature of the "Love" generation, soon to collapse at Altamont. "Love" Street (not Haight Street) was more and more filled with a tidal wave of penniless, idealistic, escapist hippies looking for a good time (free of parents, the war and responsibility), free drugs, free food, places to crash. And Cops and Narcs itching to bust them. Others hippies ready to steal from them. Character "Penny Lane" finds out the hard way about the darker side of life and the Summer of Love, "Starbright", who comes to find her, does better with the help of "Chiron Cat Eye in Draco". He is tackyported from the future to watch over her and has to be extra careful not to affect events which could redirect or diddle with the future. He brings a "knuckletop" computer with 3D holographic keyboard!
Ms Mason's love of San Francisco shines through her story so one can taste and feel "Haight Ashbury" local of the 60's. Walk thru Haight-Ashbury today, you can still almost feel vibes of the "Summer of Love". This is what it was really like.
One of the greatest sci-fi books ever written, but more than that, one of the most authentic historical novels ever written about 1967 (even if it does borrow a bit from the Terminator)! Starts a bit slow, but don't get confused. Persist