Scorched Earth: A Future History of Planet EarthPetrovic, Walter D.
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Scorched Earth: A Future History of Planet Earth
Petrovic, Walter D.
Science fiction
They were never found and Reginald's need for companionship made him
adopt the child and so he became responsible for him. He gave him the
name of Hosea, who grew up to be a brilliant man and a great political
leader in the OMEGA 4 EAST City.
Hosea became the most powerful man in the city's parliament, keeping
tensions at bay, but allowing the people to think freely. He had
allowed debates to continue, concerning the existence of the Twentieth
Century and he had, himself, held to the belief that there was a
civilisation that they had descended from. He had computer disks and
video tapes, books and photographs all showing the life as it was in
the ancient past. This was proof. It was proof that could never be
used but Hosea was the kind of man that was eager to see what
conclusions would be brought by his colleagues by just using logical
reasoning.
A conclusion, of sorts, had been found. It was a forced conclusion and
had occurred at a time the people of the city were looking for some
real direction.
Hosea had been electrocuted at age of ninety-six, while he was trying
to make improvements on solar-electric power sources. He was well
known for this pursuit within his city.
Hosea's first son was named Cano and when he was young he exhibited a
strange spiritual aura and it was an unanimous decision, by the city
fathers, to have him trained at the Monastery of St. Tobias, outside
the city.
In 2580 C.E., at eighteen years of age, Cano completed his studies of
religious history, and other related topics, at the monastery. He
became a spiritual healer and a leader, and he later changed his name
to Canon Di'Vaticanus.
He was a well-liked man, at first, who seemed stable and secure
considering that his mother, Hosea's first wife Anna, deserted both of
them when Cano was only twelve.
She had travelled to BanGor where she had become the High Priestess of
the Cults, since she was able to endure the rains, without allowing
herself to fornicate. All her daughter-descendants replaced her as the
High Priestess. Anna was an ecologist while at the OMEGA 4 East City
and she had developed a counter-agent that let her and whomever else
took the drug, capable of tolerating being caught in the rain without
having instantly become sexually deranged.
In 2600 C.E., Hosea married his fourth wife (having lost both his
second and third to early death). Her name was Ruth and she was
regarded as the best in her field of Aging research. In fact, in the
same year of their marriage, Ruth had made a break-through by
perfecting a drug that retarded the ageing process.
The first human to test the drug was Hosea when he became mortally ill
and with the taking of the drug he miraculously recovered.
The drug was primarily kept for those in the Line of Knowledge but Ruth
had sold some to other people in the city for certain favours and
services.
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