Chapter 28 is now in the queue for this Saturday. One of the things I've been doing with this story of an alternate Earth is to try to make it believable. Oh, I know, putting a superhero from another planet automatically puts it into the science fiction category.
Another thing that I've done is try to weave historical events into this, again in a believable way. Something I've found as I've been doing my research on these events is something many of you are going to say I'm crazy for even bringing it up this way, on this blog. I'm doing so simply because of two recent articles that were just published this past week.
One of them had this opening line: "One of the most effective ways ... to shut down an inquiry into misconduct is to say it is all a conspiracy theory."
Another had these opening lines: "Fifty years ago, journalist Gary Allen set out to write a book to prove conservative anti-communists wrong. But while researching, he realized he had not seen the "hidden picture." There indeed was a conspiracy, shielded by a narrative advanced by liberal academia and the mainstream media, both actually in the service of an elite cabal that included Rockefeller, Ford, Morgan, Rothschild, Loeb, Kennedy, and Carnegie."
I think everyone would agree that I've woven quite a number of 'conspiracy theories' into these novels. There are even a couple more of them in Chapter 28. Again, keep in mind that I've come up with everything in these novels on my own, and conducted my own, independent research. Based upon some of the emails I've gotten from you, the readers - and you're an eclectic bunch that's done a lot of stuff in a lot of places around the world DURING the time periods covered by my novels - it really sort of seems like I've hit the proverbial nail on the head and there's a lot of stuff called 'conspiracy theory' I've included that ... isn't theory, it's what really happened.
I specifically used this quote in the story earlier. 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.' Right now, based on my count, I'm up to twenty things I've said, hey, this sounds cool, let me put it in here. I need to figure out to make it work, so let's do some research. Then, as I'm doing my research, I'm going ... Damn! I thought ... but this says ... wait a minute, what? Maybe I'm a little touched in the head, maybe I'm now an incredible conspiracy theorist. Maybe I've found out that a lot of what we've been told not to concern ourselves with is real. Hell if I know. I thought I was making this stuff up all along. It's disturbing to find out that I'm not.
TL:DR - Carl's maybe off his rocker? Or he's found out that a lot of stuff we've been told not to worry about, it's all just conspiracy theory, is the truth. (Not all of them, but way too many for comfort.)