Category: Science Fiction Publisher: First Books Library
ISBN-10: 0759628785
Type: Fiction
Pages: 166
Copyright: Jan 1 2001
Science and Religion clash in this thrilling sci-fi adventure that covers everything from genetic engineering and cryogenics to the use of tissue from unborn fetuses. The battle for the future of humanity has begun.
In the next two hundred years, there will be a human crisis that will wipe out more than one quarter of the earth’s population. It will not be war, alien invasion, or the pollution of the environment that will cause this decimation, but the onslaught of a virus; the most cunning enemy known to man. Faced with our own mortality, mankind will turn away from religion and use science in an effort to preserve the human race.
The battle for survival will not merely reach into the hospitals and government offices, but into the lives of everyday people; where it will become a war between technology and morality, between medical science and religion.
Kyle Reed, a successful entrepreneur and CEO of his own company in the twentieth century, purchases a medical research company known for its work in genetics and refrigeration. Unknowingly, he has bought his way, and humankind’s way, into the future. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, he uses the technology of his newly acquired company, Kytec Industries, to preserve himself in cryogenic stasis.
With the financial backing of a multi-millionaire, Kytec becomes the leading medical research facility in the world. In the two hundred years that Kyle remains frozen, the human race finds itself thrown into a holocaust; dealing with the spread of disease and famine. Technology and religion clash during this time, and human testing will be used to find cures and propel mankind to survive and prosper.
Awakened after two hundred years, Kyle will be reborn into a world where there is a cure for every known disease, prolonged life and health, and even genetic enhancements that give humans flawless appearances. Soon, Kyle will find out that the world around him is not so perfect, and finds he is in the middle of a war. Revivalist Knights, led by Tyr Huse, a man dedicated to a path of faith, who serve the church, and the director of the medical research company, Rein Carn, are battling over the souls of the twenties; thousands of people who were born before 1999 and are frozen in cryogenic stasis.
The battle heats up when Kyle has to choose between supporting Rein, who is obsessed with his quest to design the perfect human species, and to this end needs to use human test subjects, and Tyr, who asks Kyle to help him destroy the company he once founded and protect the lives of the twenties.
Excerpt
“What Rein and Sable were telling me, they’ve been trying to crack the code of our design. Break into the center of our programming, the human brain. They don’t want to make clones; they want to make the perfect human over and over. They want to bring natural selection back into the process, and improve it. Human beings who are able to adapt and defend themselves against any illness or virus. Genetic perfection, passed down from generation to generation. They even believe the key to eternal youth lies there.”
“That is emphasizing the noble side of it,” Tyr said. “The drawback is that they’ve gone too far. When we finally emerged from the crisis, a ban was placed on all human testing. What they are doing is illegal, and against every moral that makes us human. They are stripping the rights of those who cannot protect themselves.”
“This can’t be,” Isel said standing up. She was noticeably upset with the conversation going on around her. “The ban on human testing has been in effect for over seventy-five years now. Maybe in the time of the crisis what you’re suggesting could be hidden, but now? Where would they get the resources for conducting such tests? Where could they come up with the test subjects they are using?”
Pegasus is the symbol of wisdom and inspiration. This book, although a dystopia, is meant to inspire people to search for a greater future through wisdom. We have the technology to create a Garden of Eden here on Earth, if only we are wise enough to
