| INDIA'S FIRST E-FICTION BOOK SET IN 26TH CENTURY HOPE! the 26th century tale of commerce & love first published in 2001 as an e-book at www.firstprint.com, making it India's first e-fiction book set in the future. 30 Chapters, plenty of new and exciting ideas about future!! Pentagon printers e-mail: [email protected] |
| Prologue History�s greatest wars have been fought either for commerce or for love or for both. Hide Commerce, bury love and you will have absolute power over the human beings. This is the story set in the future, where commerce is buried and love is erased from the psyche of human beings and a powerful set of elders wield absolute power over mankind settled all over the Universe. But the desire for commerce and for Love is so great in human beings that a set of revolutionaries hiding in the fringes of the Kingdom of Galactica persevere hoping one day to wrest back the freedom to mankind, freedom to trade and to love. Ra and Ri, two faithful scientists of the Kingdom get entangled in this power game and in the process they rediscover Love. As to commerce�.well can it ever be buried? Chapter 1 Many of Ra�s colleagues across the galaxy have been asking him why he chose History as main memory for his humanoid assistant. It should have been physics (Phyro) or Astronomy (Astro) Maths (Matro) or any other. Certainly History is a far cry considering Ra is one of the rarest breed of radio astronomers. All Ra could do was to mumble under his breath some incoherent monosyllables in reply. Actually he himself never understood his deep urge to learn history, to leaf through the half forgotten centuries where mankind learnt to use the stone tools first, traded with pebbles, learnt to ride horses, fight enemies with spears, invented guns and nearly destroyed themselves with nuclear weapons, bought universal peace so as to explore as a human race into the depths of the stars, fought intergalactic battles, conquered many unknown planets. He so spread out that the mother earth is a dream for many to be visited once in a life time like the Haj visit for the pious Muslims of the previous millenniums. Ra himself is an official resident of a photon star planet named Isbella. Chapter 5 After Hannah took his seat he called out the usual oath �We owe allegiance to mankind as it originated and survived on the face of this Universe since time immemorial. We shall, at the honour of our lives, protect and preserve the laws and practices of the human race. We further pledge that we shall use technology only to the extent it sub-serves the human needs� Chapter 30 �If onlly Hanna were alive!�, she was thinking. She knew that Hanna and his group who collectively vanished into thin air after a freak space accident would have easily followed up the chink that she had opened in the regime to its logical conclusion. She knew that IGFE opening up coupled with relaxation in the regimentation of human mind which made everyone little less than a humanoid was the right ammunition that the team would need to bring the regime to its knees. �How they would do is not my business but knowing Hanna I am sure he would have done. But then what is the point. There is no Hanna�.� more excerpts....click here |
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