The mind behind ‘The Augmented Man’
The pandemic is now hopefully at its tail end, but it has raised some very valid and pertinent questions. What is our new normal? How will we interact, behave, communicate and work? These metamorphic and evolutionary changes have been speculated in many sci-fi books, journals, articles, prophesy’s and the like — one such close analogy is the movie ‘Contagion’, which eerily holds up a mirror to many of the challenges we are facing today.
Likewise, as we look ahead to the future, we can draw on many parallels in current day science fiction, and there are many plausible instances described in The Augmented Man by Joseph Carrabis, which is set between a time period of 10 and 30 years from the present and focuses on issues surrounding childhood trauma and PTSD.
As I started to delve into this book, I was fortunate to borrow some of Joseph’s time last week to talk through his book and his journey.
I finished reading ‘The Augmented Man’ the day after my interview with Joseph, with a newfound respect for his writing which not only represents the work he’s done with trauma patients, it has a solid grounding in reality that resonates with authenticity and emotion that I ended up empathizing with all of the main characters, villains and anti-heroes. It’s certainly left me wanting to learn more and I hope a sequel is on its way very soon!
