CASSANDRA
Cassandra is a sequel to Troubadour. A woman in her early thirties, two generations younger than Peter Icarus has become his principle disciple—the only one to believe he actually visited another planet. He dies two years before she receives the chance she’s dreamed of—an invitation to visit Troubadour.
     Though very long-lived—often 150 years—she finds the remarkable people who populated Peter’s experience are now dead. Their children, who knew Peter, become her principle companions. One of them, Deetjin, a little boy when Peter visited gradually becomes her lover, his surrogate sister, Saavin, Cassandra’s closest friend.
     She soon learns that even a utopian world still has its internal problems. Her lover and best friend belong to separate political factions wanting Troubadour to move in very different directions. She discovers that even an ideal world contains those who can’t manage to prosper—who become emotionally dysfunctional and need special care.
     Like her mentor she becomes a key figure in this debate/decision. As an immigrant outsider—something valued deeply by the Troubadourians—she becomes the fulcrum of their decision.
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TROUBADOUR
A skilled psychologist, though unhappy in his own life and family, yet still searching for answers to life is suddenly invited to visit a distant planet—Troubadour—200 years in the future.
     Transported instantly through the invisible dark energy of space, Peter Icarus is led to an apartment deep underground full of technological wonders. He learns that all living spaces are underground, except for three stories, restoring the planet’s surface to its natural pre-human state.
     Left largely to fend for himself he flounders for days trapped in his own depressive unhappiness. Though he receives regular visits by two wise citizens of Troubadour who gradually introduce him to their world.
     This non-violent world community has replaced bureaucratic government with world-wide individual consent, the traditional family with professional parents, schools with individual tutoring, economy with shared stewardship of all things, law and order with electronic implants that locate everyone 24/7 making responsibility easy to assign, personal occupational choice entirely in the hands of individuals.
     Perceiving himself to be vastly inferior to these people, he discovers that he’s been invited to visit Troubadour not just to introduce an Earth-person to a new world. At the climax of the story he becomes, as was always intended the crucial apex around which a major world decision is to take place—putting him as the centerpiece of a vast meeting of the world population. He must rise to the occasion of this overpowering assignment.
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