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A science fiction series by Colin Trafford<\/em> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Image” src=”https:\/\/pascaleditions.com\/colintrafford\/wp-content\/uploads\/LOOKING-FORWARD-TO-THE-PAST.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”off” url_new_window=”off” animation=”left” sticky=”off”] [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n By the late twenty-first century, a convergence of catastrophes has plunged the world into a nightmare conflict of ethnic nationalism. \u00a0China is buckling under the weight of brutally ruling an Africa with a population of over six billion. America has dissolved into the breakaway ethnic Hispanic, black, Mormon, and Christian and Islamic Fundamentalist states. \u00a0Europe has been overrun by Islamic fundamentalists in the wake of decades of guerilla and civil war.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As devastating storms and environmental chaos ravage much of the former First World, in far North an association of former European, North American, and neo-Soviet states have formed the Rim — the most technologically advanced remaining political entity, despite external threats and internal conspiracy that threaten to bring civilization’s last outpost down.<\/p>\n But that very technological advance has produced a Singularity: an artificial intelligence of miraculous power and cryptic, more than human intellectual capacity. \u00a0And it has\u00a0opened the door to Heaven — as aliens from Proxima Centauri arrive with a gift from stars: \u00a0a gift of new pasts…<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_4″][et_pb_contact_form admin_label=”Contact Form” captcha=”off” email=”cwtrafford@gmail.com” title=”Email Colin”] [\/et_pb_contact_form][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Looking Forward To The Past A science fiction series by Colin Trafford By the late twenty-first century, a convergence of catastrophes has plunged the world into a nightmare conflict of ethnic nationalism. \u00a0China is buckling under the weight of brutally ruling an Africa with a population of over six billion. America has dissolved into the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-225","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n