Author Spotlight: Tracy Shew

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Tracy Shew

Fantasy, Non-Fiction

Tracy Shew has had a varied life: Art Historian, professional pyrotechnician, professional philatelist, fledgling painter and sculptor, and once he managed the storage facility where Timothy McVeigh had rented a unit, necessitating a week-long vacation as investigators did their duty in mid-1995. Currently, he leads a quiet, unassuming life as an IT professional in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

After a lifetime of experience, and writing for 15 years, he feels ready to share some of his milder perceptions with others, wrapped in digestible (?), bite-size tidbits of prose. His goal is to show that the “ordinary” world around us is actually highly extraordinary, and that our perceptions of it are malleable and unique. Ostensibly, what he writes is urban fantasy, sometimes ranging into humor, science fiction, or horror. He looks to R.A. Lafferty, Terry Bisson, Haruki Murakami, Rod Serling, and anyone who demonstrates that thought-provoking content and strange but gripping story outweighs the appetite for bland, pretentious entertainment.

“If I’ve made you look at one thing around you in a new way, I’m satisfied.”

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Summary: What makes a writer tick? What happens when an author gives up pure entertainment and aims instead at a deeper meaning? Can books somehow save the world? Will readers even care? A/not A explores the life and meaning of the work Tracy Shew, science fiction and fantasy author. The book begins with a detailed autobiography, and Shew's various attempts to "make the world a better place" from an early age. Then, the author's philosophy is described in detail. The description contains aspects of religion, mind science, dreams, biocentrism and especially quantum mechanics. The author concludes with a hopeful revelation that understanding "A/not A" as a philosophy and a somewhat different way of looking at the world will assist people in gaining new perceptions and new tools for understanding reality. Common social stumbling blocks which lead to division and hate might be dissolved. The author has for the last five years "salted" aspects of A/not A into all his writing. At the very least, this book will help the reader understand Shew's more bizarre stories, how (and why) he has toyed with Abstract Surrealism as a writing form, and what he hopes to accomplish. This book is half autobiographical, half philosophy (with a strong flavoring of quantum physics and neuroscience). The most basic message is that the loss of dialog between people who disagree (the "division") is the greatest threat we face today. The author recommends a simple grassroots solution: Start talking and listening to one another.