Ithyanna Interview by Don Edward Cook, Part 1
ITHYANNA, TITLE CHARACTER OF ITHYANNA: LAST DAUGHTER OF ATLANTIS BOOK I: HOW THE WORLD ENDED MILLENNIA AGO, PART I
By Don Edward Cook
What if our current times of trouble, which many in our day and age have described as having no parallel to the calamities of the past, actually has a parallel in the far distant, forgotten past?
What if that time of great world calamity was in the days of Noah? What if that world was not the rustic primitive albeit very corrupt civilization as often depicted in the tales about Noah’s Flood, but instead the reputedly advanced technological world of Atlantis that was as rife with evil as our age is today?
This is the theme of my book Ithyanna: Last Daughter of Atlantis Book I: How the World Ended Millennia Ago. And to elaborate further about the book’s premise and to offer key insight into who she is, I have the honor and pleasure of interviewing the book’s title character, Dr. Ithyanna D’Yel Tiekka Ekkleono, a scientist at the Vansqvaa Institute for Higher-Learning in Loxxdiekko, Atlantis, the seaside city where she also lives.
DON EDWARD COOK: Dr. Ekkleono, thank you for coming to my point in spacetime today.
ITHYANNA: [Relaxed.] The honor and pleasure are all mine, Don. And please, call me Ithy. I’m not big on formality.
DEC: Thanks, Ithy. The name of your home city. It sounds sort of Californian.
ITHY: [Laughs.] After what I’ve learned about your age, Don, I can tell you my Loxxdiekko is very much like your cities L.A., San Fran, or San Diego. A cool set of parallel cities.
DEC: So, tell me. What led you to embark on the path you did?
ITHY: It all began with my mother’s death when I was eleven years old. After that, I looked into whether anyone else who lost someone like I lost Mom, and I saw they, too, died the same way, from what our clinicians call Dark Times Heartbreak Syndrome. I was a heartbroken girl, whose only escape was through working for my aunt Laktia at her beachfront ice cream place in my teens, as well as… well, let’s call them “lewd teenage escapades”. I wasn’t chaste like my adopted sister Biannia, who became the wife of Shem, son of the doomsayer Noah.
DEC: As in the Ark’s Noah?
ITHY: Yes. That control-freaky doomsayer Noah.
DEC: Sounds like you don’t have much use for him.
ITHY: And not for his unseen sky-god either.
DEC: Getting back to your own quest, Ithy. As much as you despise Noah, you and he arrived at parallel conclusions, yet at wildly differing solutions.
ITHY: Yes. He and his gopher-wood death-barge, and me at my space ark-based one.
DEC: You mean, where your take some humans, and possibly some livestock, plant seeds/spores, and records of your world’s culture and accumulated knowledge to another planet?
[Ithy leans towards me.]
ITHY: I’m mean getting the Perdition off my doomed world, Don, while there is still time.
DEC: You had no faith in Noah’s plan?
ITHY: [Very agitated.] Look, Don! If you had all the access to the data I have, which I apologize for not being able to bring with me today, you’d see that you’d have a far better chance of winning a super-prize lottery than Noah’s plan would have in succeeding! [Calms down, then sighs.] Sorry, Don. I didn’t mean to snap at you.
DEC: Forgiven.
ITHY: And in addition, Don, the very vaporsphere that gives the world of my day nice balmy weather from pole to pole year round would be gone! The poles would tilt by 22.5 marks, or degrees, and would no longer be at a perpendicular zero degree tilt. Those factors alone, Don, would create chronically frigid conditions at both poles, a super-hot band around the Equator where the land would either be super-arid desert or hot, dense, and unbearably humid jungle country. You get the rest. And that’s the best case scenario! The worst is that Earth would end up as a water-world forever and an eternity of days!
DEC: As we’d say on Earth, in French… « C’est la vie dans la terre. »
ITHY: [Laughing cynically.] I should have known you’d say that!
In Part II of my interview, I will discuss with Ithyanna about her love life, those for and against her space-ark plans, a bit about her mental superpowers, and more. Log in tomorrow!
Don Edward Cook decided to become a writer late in life around age 55. As a Canadian with a strong Christian faith and a strong believer and supporter of freedom, Mr. Cook’s faith in God and love for science fiction has resulted in Ithyanna, Last Daughter of Atlantis. This book is loosely based upon his short film The Last Atlantean (2009), which garnered a place in the top ten percentile of IMDb’s MovieMeter during mid-summer in 2010. Ithyanna, Last Daughter of Atlantis has also earned positive reviews by both Kirkus and Goodreads (the latter review netting Mr. Cook’s book a five-star rating.)
Mr. Cook currently resides in London, Ontario, Canada.
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Julie, the first few lines in my character interview with “Ithyanna” after the intro were placed in the wrong order and therefore (up until where I pose the question about Ityhanna’s plan to take a nucleus of humans and the basics to begin anew) do not make any sense at all! Refer to my original “Character interview” and set the lines in the original, CORRECT order ASAP!
Thanks for the reedit! I appreciate it!