"There is nothing new under the sun." This adage has been quoted many places, each author taking it from a previous work. This adage applies to crime, and our definition of crime, which may have much in common with Atlantis during the Second Era when technology and society were in flux just as it is now. With new innovations and new abilities, economic and societal classes shift, priorities change, values get redefined. Then, as now, power came packaged with its companion: corruption.
As The Casebook of Elisha Grey III evolves, similarly to the crimes investigated in the seminal volume and The Casebook of Elisha Grey II, the events that emerge from what is defined as criminal activity have motives that will be familiar to anyone in the 21st century -- because history is repeated until it is transcended.
In the seminal volume of The Casebook of Elisha Grey, what are the possible crimes? Murder, or mercy? Theft, or appropriation for the benefit of others? Slavery, or liberation? In The Casebook of Elisha Grey II, is it poisoning, or an inadvertent result of modern chemical technology? Is it mind expansion without discipline, or subjugation of others to one individual's abilities? Is it the need to control others, or plain and simple jealousy gone awry?
In The Casebook of Elisha Grey III, similar questions will arise, and in the end the stories are the impetus for each reader to ask similar questions and arrive at their own conclusions. Now, as it was then, crimes result when people look at one class, or a group of indivuduals, as something to be exploited, or undermined in a way to attract attention, even if that attention is from the authorities.
The basis, motives, or perpetrators may not always be clear to the Atlantean constabulary forces. However, Elisha Grey -- with his extensive scholarly background and insight into people's character -- can weave his way through a myriad of witnesses and circumstances to arrive at a solution to a crime. Sometimes, however, his solution doesn't provide the final outcome even he would desire.
As The Casebook of Elisha Grey III evolves, similarly to the crimes investigated in the seminal volume and The Casebook of Elisha Grey II, the events that emerge from what is defined as criminal activity have motives that will be familiar to anyone in the 21st century -- because history is repeated until it is transcended.
In the seminal volume of The Casebook of Elisha Grey, what are the possible crimes? Murder, or mercy? Theft, or appropriation for the benefit of others? Slavery, or liberation? In The Casebook of Elisha Grey II, is it poisoning, or an inadvertent result of modern chemical technology? Is it mind expansion without discipline, or subjugation of others to one individual's abilities? Is it the need to control others, or plain and simple jealousy gone awry?
In The Casebook of Elisha Grey III, similar questions will arise, and in the end the stories are the impetus for each reader to ask similar questions and arrive at their own conclusions. Now, as it was then, crimes result when people look at one class, or a group of indivuduals, as something to be exploited, or undermined in a way to attract attention, even if that attention is from the authorities.
The basis, motives, or perpetrators may not always be clear to the Atlantean constabulary forces. However, Elisha Grey -- with his extensive scholarly background and insight into people's character -- can weave his way through a myriad of witnesses and circumstances to arrive at a solution to a crime. Sometimes, however, his solution doesn't provide the final outcome even he would desire.