Wild Blue Yonder: A Novel of the 1960s
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
No Place Like Home
25 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Nate finally extricates himself from the grips of the Air Force, but in a parting shot is warned that he may not like the Real World; in fact, he’...
The December of My Dreams
25 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In which Nate discovers his…well, he discovers a great deal of what’s going on inside of him while attending the performance of Beethoven’s ...
FIGMO
25 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Nate undergoes some radical personal changes after learning his story about the General was published without his attribution. His anger is temper...
Touch and Go
25 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
You may remember that Nate’s recruiter promised he’d become a jet aircraft pilot. This, of course, turned out to be nothing more than a ploy t...
Oktoberfest
25 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It’s really such a great German tradition, Oktoberfest, a party to end all parties. Too bad Dylan spoils it for the troops. But then again, if h...
Time Has Come Today
25 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Their last days on Socrates Island and dissent fills the air. Alan tries to talk the other troops into going AWOL and, well, you gotta listen to b...
Socrates Island, Part II
25 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Sun-drenched beaches. Starry nights. Friendship, firelight, and philosophy. Idyllic Socrates Island continues to seduce the troops with its siren ...
Socrates Island, Part I
25 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
After listening to this chapter, I know you’ll want to visit Socrates Island. Sorry, but it’s fictional, although there are many wonderful, ob...
Children of the Future
25 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This is just so unbelievable. Remember those two old ladies the guys met at the Ravi Shankar concert last chapter? Well, they’ve invited Nate an...
Liederhalle
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Liederhalle. In Deutsch, a place of song. A place to celebrate music of all kinds. This night the Mozart-Saal, one of the music halls within the b...
Change of Command
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It’s spring, 1968, and the world as Americans know it is falling apart: the Vietnam War rages, President Johnson is stepping down, Martin Luther...
A Writer's Life
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
“Write what you know” is a common piece of advice given to writers. Nate, given that it’s unlikely he’ll ever see one of his articles for ...
The Pieces Fit
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Nate is figuring out how to use the I Ching which Jane had given him for his birthday. Henry Harold Henry introduces the troops to John Coltrane’...
Zeitgeist
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
What’s a zeitgeist? The troops ponder, debate, question it. But Nate sees beyond Alan’s intellectual posing. He knows – really knows – wha...
Sedition
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Nate catches a hop on the courier plane to spend a weekend visiting London. He stays with his old friend from Stateside, Tony Rizzo, in Tony’s b...
Der Alten Scheune
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Nate, Alan, Henry and Tim have found a secret place to meet up, get high and talk. And it’s right behind their barracks. Tony unexpectedly flies...
Stars and Stripes Forever
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Nate embarks upon his new duty assignment as base correspondent at Kleinelachen Air Base, and meets Sergeant Tom Tremblay, his NCOIC editor at the...
First Sergeant Buford
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Nathaniel “How could I know” Flowers arrives at his new duty assignment, Kleinelachen Air Base, Germany, and immediately gets himself in a hea...
The Summer of Love
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Nate, back from his first acid trip, begins examining the meaning of the Real World more closely. Sitting in the swing on Jane’s front porch, th...
Memphis Blues Again, Part II
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Nate continues to nudge open the doors of perception, compliments of Tony and Owsley's Monterey Purple.
Memphis Blues Again, Part I
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Remember Tony Rizzo, whom Jane and Nate met after the Grateful Dead concert? Well, Tony has decided it’s time for Nate to meet Lucy in the Sky w...
Haight Ashbury
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wonder what it was like to hang out in the Haight for a kid back in the 1960s? Nate and his roommate Lee find out big-time in this chapter as...
Goin' to California
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
A wacko who runs a pizza joint and greets customers with “Goddammit!” A roommate who drives an arrest-me-red Austin Healy 3000 sports car. A l...
Hurricane
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In which our unlikely hero braves Hurricane Betsy and lives to write about it. Not only that, but survives military punishment for doing so. And w...
Fall In
24 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
To Fall In or Fall Out? That is the question, the philosophical question Nate Flowers must grapple with in Chapter 2. Whether it is better to just...
Me or Them
23 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1965 and Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers, family in disarray, flunked out of college, has enlisted in the U.S. Air Force to avoid being drafted...