Stelzer’s Travels: A Voyage to a
Sensible Planet takes the reader on an incredible
journey to the Luxenben. Our host is David Stelzer, an over the hill businessman from the planet Earth. Stelzer’s one true love is
money. The pursuit of this one true love takes up most of the man’s life and almost all of his thinking. However, a strange set of events was about to make Stelser question his motives, his life, and everything he once held dearly. Stelzer’s
amazing journey was to start on a routine trip to Brith Shalom, a temple and Hebrew language school. Once again, Stelzer was trying to squeeze money out of the Rabbi Samuels for overdue rent on the property he rented from Stelzer. Once again, no real money was forthcoming. What’s worse is that Stelzer managed to volunteer himself into taking Rabbi Samuels’ strange fanatical assistant Neuman to some mysterious meeting. The next thing Stelzer knows is that he is on some Utopic planet where the two-headed inhabitants are twice as smart as the one headed assortment of semi-intellectual inhabitants from other planets that are housed in zoos. Stelzer’s Travels: A Voyage to a Sensible Planet is intelligent, humbling, and completely entertaining. The inner workings of Luxenben are
extremely detailed and presented in an extremely tight sequence. The author even recreates the full history of the planet (which resembles our own in many ways) and relays the Cartish foundational system that saved this planet from its imminent destruction. The extremely well developed characters are unique and extremely creative yet hold a realistic reminiscent spark of those individuals in our own lives and in our own society. An amazing journey to a sensible planet.