about the inventor

Saardu is an invented planet growing up in a stellar nursery that scientists named Eagle Nebula. (hubblesite.org)

The inventor is a California girl who was raised with humor and kindness in the middle of eight siblings. Her parents were Ruth Gagne and Jon-Jon Chan. 

Gagne is a French surname that translates to English as 'win' or 'gain'. In modern times it has sometimes been phonetically adapted as Gonyea. The author prefers to keep her grandfather's spelling. 

Chan is a Chinese surname. Jon-Jon is what everyone who knew and loved the chef called him. His birth name was Wang Leong Chan. When he joined the British Royal Navy in Hong Kong at the age of seventeen, having been orphaned during World War II, he chose John as his English name. He arrived in San Francisco, California, in 1958, and soon moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he became a renowned chef in the local communities where he opened restaurants with his wife Ruth Gagne. 

Ruth was raising six children from her first marriage, on her own, when she met the chef everyone called Jon-Jon, at South Seas Restaurant in Midvale, Utah. They quickly fell in love and married in 1966. Her children adored him and he was overjoyed to have a family again. 

Ruth named her fifth child Carma. It was a pretty name she remembered from a classmate she had in childhood, who always had her hair in French braids. 

Carma Gagne Chan is the inventor of Saardu and has written the first three novels intentionally at an elementary reading level so that young readers may enjoy imagining what's out there and what's possible.

Two additional novels were written based on the main character, Ruby Lovejoy, and her closest friends, Tom Sawyer, Rascal and Herald. They are children of the eleventh dimension which is known as Zenya. 

Zenyans are godlike beings that can speak a thing into existence. They play throughout the eleven dimensions, but avoid getting into too much trouble for fear of banishment to one-dimensional being for an indefinite period. 

Our universe is the fourth dimension, three dimensions of space, matter and energy limited and measured by time. In short, Time is the fourth dimension. Another way of describing is that the human experience is of the 4D nature. Earth and Saardu are 4D worlds. The Eagle Nebula is in the 4D universe. 

Readers first encounter Saardu through the eyes of Ruby, who has forgotten who she is and is living as a child in a spaceship on a course to the planet. Her environment is bizarre to her, and her parents are also very displeased with the way things are being run by the Admins who decide how best to fulfill the mission of the Triton community. 

The crew's mission is to fulfill Zenyan assignments for a period of a thousand years. The mission began on the largest moon of Neptune, hence the name Triton community. In 2992 M.N. (which stands for a new calendar era, Mundo Novo), there was a crew of 200 scientists, researchers and engineers--geneticists primarily--living and working on Triton, one of the moons of Neptune, the largest, with sufficient gravity to sustain their operations. It was a genetic storage and research outpost, where samples of all DNA collected to date from Earth was preserved in deep freeze and also studied for the purposes of health improvements. 

These scientists succeeded in eliminating all disease through genetic engineering.  Cancer became ancient history by the time Ruby was born in the Triton community, 19 generations later. In Ruby's time, there is no such thing as diabetes, allergy, heart failure, kidney disease, etc. The only thing they fear and have not conquered is a neurological disorder they call the Complex--yes, with a capital C. They have become utterly superstitious over it, and have begun to behave in such bizarre fashion, that the Zenyans can no longer welcome them into their dimension. Fear would be disasterous if allowed to enter the 11D nature. Something must be done to remedy the situation. 

Ruby is mysteriously guided by Zenyan allies to become the unwitting leader of this bizarre group of humans, and is helped by an old-school optimist hiding her complex to avoid being put into deep freeze.  The elder happens to enjoy spending her days in the Archives, reading ancient books. 

Thus begins the first adventure on Saardu, written by Carma in 2009. 

Learn more about The Saardu Trilogy and the creative process by following the inventor's journey and new posts at this site. 

Ruth Gagne & Jon-Jon Chan

Carma age 12, with 4 brothers, baby sister & Mom

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