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 discussed the progress that had occurred through the many
generations that grew and nurtured along with it the disease of
corruption and immorality; the same diseases that were present in all
civilised peoples. These powerful progression had meant the inevitable
downfall of all the great Empires which once reigned on the Earth.
From the first humans that walked upright, to the last of the brave
that went into space, in the late Twentieth Century, it had been the
same until the fall of man, in his greatest conflagration. Brook and
Lloyd exchanged little bits of knowledge about the Twentieth Century
and the three great wars that were fought. There were endless columns
of living flesh, where people were herded like animals by other people,
and transported to large camps. While there, many who were not
fortunate enough to die, were made use of in the endless experiments of
new drugs, surgical techniques and endless studies of the individual's
body tolerances to torture.
The atrocities, that every war carried with it, seemed to grow and
spread. They were pandemic. Yet, these atrocities were allowed to
continue, where social morals degenerated further with every proceeding
conflict and the outrageous brutality that was let to worsen, by the
lack of authoritative controls on those madmen. They spoke of the
GREAT NATION's 'Proposition Blue'; devised in the last half of the
Twentieth Century, to preserve human life, in the event that global
annihilation would become reality. Learned men and women were chosen
and assembled, and were taken to subterranean cities. There, they were
to carry-on with their work and with their lives, in the perfect safety
of their restraint.
In the years that proceeded, and no major wars were fought, the young
chosen became old and were replaced by newly chosen young
intellectuals. They too, continued in the sealed cities.
Lloyd reached for his book and opened at a particular spot. He had
read aloud to Brook; Dearborne and Boy listening:
"Two generations of the Proposition Blue personnel lived-out
their lives, underground. In the Omega 1-SGI, restless
dissention had spread when the time of the last global war
had finally come to pass. When the news of war spread
through the ranks of The Blue, many scientists forcibly left
their protective cities and went out into the world to let
the common people know of some meagre ways to protect
themselves during the inevitable nuclear strikes and the
subsequent fallout.
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