ANAHEIM, Calif., Dec. 4, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- An eccentric plot replete with bizarre images, characters, and strange depictions, Erik Lehman's "Sustenance: Dark (1) Reign" (now available through 1stBooks Library) is an interesting study of what might happen and what kind of existence there might be after the end of God's reign.
Set in a musty, torrid, dark land of lush tropical, steaming humidity in a never-ending night, lit only by the moon's blue glow and fed by the coursing red-tinted rivers, oceans, and underground veins of pure evil. "Sustenance" delves into the possibilities of subsistence after God's period of sovereignty. It features life in purgatory and hell, and how the minority humans struggle to overthrow a pure but entrancingly romanticized evil. While Hell is right outside their door, they are not aware, nor do they realize the results of man's ignorance of good.
This book is narrated by a witness to this "diseased" land and his sons' struggle to become aware of the truth. An excerpt of the novel reads, "...The earth was void of all life but a few thousand unrighteous humans left behind in the wrath of their lord. Earth was barren, dried up. Rubble from a destroyed world. Mirages of steamed-heat from the boiling core floating on the atmosphere. The spirit of the dark angel hovered above the earth, with a smile. She had waited millenniums."
Lehman's fiction obviously comes from a very rich and vivid imagination, as well as from a discerning, questioning mind. "Sustenance" can prod readers to contemplate their own existence and what they think the future holds for them.
Erik Lehman has traveled the United States and abroad in search of a clue to the meaning of existence. He has conversed with people from all walks of life, discussing and observing morality -- or the lack of it -- fears, religion, life after death, the love of a parent, and the heartache of loss and disappointment. He has come to realize that no matter what country, religion, dialect, or outer differences we possess, we are all the same in our goal to survive. His imagination guides him through fantastically chilling worlds of the unknown. Lehman resides in Anaheim, California, with dreams of sailing around the world.
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