Imagine a planet at peace. Interconnective harmony; universal respect for all living things...and the freedom to go naked.

The 2007 release novel Strange Days Indeed paints such a picture with a twist: the memoir writer is gazing back from an enlightened 2061 to our erstwhile present, telling new generations how we once lived and why we ever chose to live that way. In particular, he's focusing on the unlikely history -- and current morphing -- of two age-old, by then archaic, customs of compulsory dress and cruel diet.

Who hasn't imagined how nice it'd be if we didn't have to wear clothes? Or think it barbaric the way lives of millions of feeling animals are taken each day to become dubious food for humans?

"In our heart of hearts, we were all natural-born nudists."

So writes Zet Quimby, eccentric 112-year-old, in his memoir teleported back to us. After 2012, dramatic earth changes and a quantum leap in spiritual awareness transformed life as we know it. In telling how improbably we live in times he, too, weathered, Zet recounts his life as affected by our former perma-dressed ways and cruelty-based eating habits.

Not surprisingly, future generations view our era as most peculiar. read more