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
Some scientists published papers, that they called "The Blue
Prospectus". It told the world about their government's
secret cities and it made demands for regular people to be
admitted into them, also. The people then rebelled, all of
them wanting in. In the Far and MiddleEast, the Red Forces
fought. They had left death and destruction in the wake of
their advancement towards (what was then) the world's
greatest, and most Holy of cities.
The masses were terrified.
At home, people fought amongst one another, crying at the
terrible lies that the men in power told to them. They
desperately tried to understand why some of them were not
allowed into the "Proposition Blue" standards. The final
chance to allow one young worker from each of the State's
counties, an admission into one of the seven Omega SubGround
Installations.
FLIGHT FOR SALVATION
GINN -- 2030
At dusk, as the twilight colours gave way to darkness and the pulsing
stars, Brook and his guest had sup and continued with their exchange.
Dearborne and Boy attentively sat by one another for many of those
passing hours. They said very little but listened a great deal.
Lloyd told Brook of a great vault that was uncovered in the centre of
Besten by historian scholars, many years ago. The vault contained a
great number of books, journals and visual ribbons which showed the
dire panic of the masses when the first bombs began to fall upon their
cities.
Pictures showed masses in exodus to the mountains just before the
escalation. Those people who left early, during the desperately
unsuccessful peace negotiations, had made it to the safety of the
mountains, where they hopefully found some degree of protection from
the deadly fallout. Those who waited and moved too late, perished in
the desolation that came to pass. And the world cried, for the final
prophesy was not fulfilled. The Son of Man had failed to return and
put a stop to the killing, the persecution and the corruption. Some
people died from their lack of Faith, while other stayed with the hope
that His return was still to come upon them, a little while later.
Their talk lead them into their own historic backgrounds, to the sum of
knowledge which was allowed by the original Canon Di'Vaticanus, in the
middle of the Twenty Seventh Century. He declared that this two score
and eleventh year (2651 C.E.), was the beginning of the long-promised
millennium, as heralded by the ancient prophets. His declaration was
made after an eleven-year-old girl gave birth to a son. The
eleven-year-old was a foundling in an abbess hermitage, left there by
someone who could not care for her.
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