Sava Buncic

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Sava Buncic is a novelist (literary and futuristic fiction for adults), long-time scientist and university professor in public health. The issues that particularly attract his literary attention include challenges and hard choices encountered throughout life in the fierce modern world and how an individual can meet them. Also, he writes about how the world will look in the future, in his view.

In addition to novels, Sava has authored several scientific books and book chapters and numerous articles in scientific journals, all published world-wide.

Sava has lived and worked in constant motion between different countries and continents (lives mainly in New Zealand, but spends time regularly in United Kingdom and Serbia too) for most of his adult life.

He has been married to his wife Sheryl, a scientist, for decades and his only son Veljko, an architect, lives with his own family and works in London.

Genre:

  • Adult Fiction
  • Fiction
  • Science Fiction

Skills:

  • Academic Writing
  • Novelist

Branch:

Hamilton

Location:

Hamilton

Publications:

Mantle Convection

This is a literary fiction novel for adults. Mark’s lonely and emotionally painful childhood is deeply rooted in his heart and mind as he fights to overcome often opposing, dramatic challenges throughout his life, and molds himself into a professionally and personally successful man. He endures the dark shadows of his inner self but is also enlightened by his revelations. His meditative soul and his journey are influenced by his family, friends and peers, as he explores and grows from lacking to finding personal identity; from missing to gaining confidence; from losing to earning friendships; from betrayal to loyalty in love; from naivety to manipulation in his career; from failures to successes in parenting; from illness to health; and ultimately from the path of ‘do what you have to’ towards ‘do what you want to’. The book )e-book and printed book formats) can be purchased from Amazon, see author's page: https://www.amazon.com/author/sava-buncic

Integrated Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health

This is a textbook (on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/sava-buncic). The importance of food safety for human health has been widely recognized. The safety of foods of animal origin is particularly relevant because the large majority of food-borne diseases come from poultry, eggs, meat, milk and dairy products and fish. This textbook, aimed at university students and professionals involved in studying and controlling food-borne diseases covers an integrated approach to food production, hygiene and safety and shows how it results in concurrent benefits to animal well being, human health, protection of the environment and socio-economics. The book can be purchased from Amazon, see author's page: https://www.amazon.com/author/sava-buncic

Inside Out of Bubble

This is a literary fiction novel for adults. Clive is contentedly middle-aged, educated and hard-working, a by-the-book man living with his wife in their own very self-contained way. He experiences and is forced to live with increasingly irritating and damaging intrusions from his neighbours, professional cliques and wider surroundings into their happy little world. His struggle to defend their right to be left alone leads to his professional and personal downfall and, induced also by his wife’s death, major clashes with the law and society. Ultimately, he fights to pick up the shredded remnants of his personal existence, and discovers that unselfish love is the only thing that helps. The heart of the book questions whether a happy little circle can be created, protected and maintained within the ocean of modern society awash with rapidly growing selfishness, empty hedonism, fading moral values, cultural dumbing down, corruption and political machination. How high a price must be paid, and what is one person ready to pay, when fighting to be left alone? The book (e-book and printed book formats) can be purchased from Amazon, see author's page: https://www.amazon.com/author/sava-buncic

Harnessing Altruism

This is a literary (futuristic) fiction novel for adults. Could you keep on living, and how, as the sole survivor of all your family? Would you bring a child into a world in which it would live without any means of modern civilization, in misery and isolation – knowing that would never change? If you could never see either your husband or your son ever again, who would you choose? Harnessing Altruism is about the world in the mid twenty-first century and beyond, in which the very existence of humanity is threatened by an unbearably hot climate and shortages of essential resources due to the long-term insatiable greed of modern civilization. The Turnbull family struggles to survive under increasingly harsh conditions in the war-torn world, in miserable refugee camps and in underground sanctuaries having nothing else but minimal rations of food and water. In the process, from childhood to older age, Ed must keep learning where the balance is between his primal instinct for survival and desire to maintain his own essential traits of humanity, how to handle the ‘every man for himself’ situations while facing the risk of imminent death, and what is that one thing for which he would do anything in the world. Answering all these and other questions is made monumentally hard by the helplessness of people in a world in which they influence nothing and do not know who decides about the life and death of the irreversibly and progressively shrinking human population. The book (e-book and printed book formats) can be purchased from Amazon, see author's page: https://www.amazon.com/author/sava-buncic

To Be Had

This is a literary fiction novel for adults. Can you earn respect and love within your own family if you cannot provide them with more than bare survival? Are there any ethical and moral boundaries you would not cross, any humiliation you would not bear, while trying to make enough money to enable your child to build a life better than yours? Boris faces an uphill struggle while he desperately tries to climb the financial and social ladder. The break-up of his marriage and the loss of contact with his daughter Luna convince him that lack of money is the cause of all his problems. When he, after humiliating failures, eventually manages to amass serious wealth by dubious means, Luna judges and rejects him. But when Luna is almost overcome by her own adversities, Boris fights for her to accept him and to help her through her tragedy. Battling alongside him is Simona, his only friend from his dark past. Will Boris, Luna and Simona, each grappling with their own black dogs, find a way to connect with each other and become a family? Can they ever be content, earning little and living at a lower social level? To Be Had is a harrowing account of people wrestling to find their own identity and peace of mind in a world where money seems to control everything around them and for them. The book (e-book and printed book formats) can be purchased from Amazon, see author's page: https://www.amazon.com/author/sava-buncic

Need to Want

This is a futuristic fiction for adults. If you believe you are the last little group of people in the world, living as in the stone age on an small, isolated island, would you want to try to continue the human race? If your answer's yes – what would be the reason for that; in other words – what would you consider the crucial, main sense of human existence? In Need to Want, by following the lives of Bruce and his family, Sava Buncic deals with these questions and some other issues that are inseparably interconnected with them. Can we feel fulfilled when all our basic needs are met and we live in balance with the nature we essentially depend on, or do we need much more to be happy? Why and when do greed and selfishness make individuals start neglecting the higher interests of society and even endagering the fate of future generations? Is this because some unconcious urge pushes our human race towards self-destruction? Can the most sublime creation of nature, the human mind, control its own dark side? This novel inevitably provokes you, the reader, to search for your personal answers to those unknowns and dilemas, reflecting the troubled relationship of modern civilization with the nature that keeps our planet alive.

Taming the Wish

This is a literary fiction for adults. Petar, a physician and scientist living an ordinary life, unexpectedly and through no fault of his own, faces the danger that his whole existence and that of his loved ones will be erased by the powerful machinery of the state's secret service. Will he turn to bare survival, just surrender to the terrible threats from that monster and do everything it demands from him? Even though that could lead to destruction of the fundamental ethical, moral and humanistic values that uphold humanity, and make it what it is, or should be? Or will he try to resist, however hopeless that seems and regardless of the possible cost, and fight the monster to preserve the normality of people and the society they live in? While grappling with those existential dilemmas, his only secure foothold is the love he shares with those he is closest to.

Musings About the World and People

This is a short stories anthology. Many times, you’ve noticed some small event, people’s behavior or words in your surrounding which interested you. But you forgot them. Because, the next moment, something else caught your attention. Most of such incidental observations have the fate of shooting stars. They flash like fireflies in the summer twilight across your consciousness and sink into the darkness of oblivion. Because they were not written down. In this book, Sava Buncic presents 63 short observations about people and the world, which he recorded over the years. Perhaps they will prompt the reader to think about his/her own relationship to the topics touched upon.