A Comedy of Errors

It's the year 4022, more than 2,000 years after a global catastrophe wiped out most of civilization. The story centers around Howard Carson, an amateur archaeologist. One day, Howard stumbles through a hole in the ground and makes a fantastic discovery: In front of him is a door to an ancient burial chamber, the first ever found perfectly preserved. Inside is a treasure trove of ancient wonders and mysterious artefact's from a time long past. Read how Howard and his team carefully catalog the strange objects found inside the burial chamber and try to guess how each one was used by the ancient civilization (us) of their studies. And how very wrong their guesses are!

The Motel of Mysteries is part dystopia, part science fiction, and part satire. And keep this last part in mind as you read! This book is not meant to be taken too seriously (example: The object the archaeologists believe was used as a Sacred Ceremonial Headdress by our society). Along with humor is an interesting message about how wrong we can be in our assumptions about societies and cultures we really know nothing about. And it begs the question: In our real-life studies of peoples long gone (the Incas & Aztecs, for example), how accurate are we really when it comes to knowing about them from the artifacts they left behind? We could be as off-base in our knowledge as Howard and his team. Makes you think, doesn't it? --AJL