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History Changers: Expedition 2022
History Changers: Expedition 2022
History Changers: Expedition 2022
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History Changers: Expedition 2022

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Andy and David are poles apart. They are from different eras, they have different physiques & different friends. Yet their lives are about to become inexplicably intertwined.
December 2022 - An errant team of scientists reverse the earth's magnetic poles generating worldwide natural disasters. Six billion people die. Twenty year old David - a brilliant inventor - & his custom built computer Kojak survive what comes to be called The Event.
December 2057 - Thirteen year old Andy lives in Zone 1 (formerly Perth, Western Australia), 35 years after-the-Event (AE). People wear radiation suits due to particle bombardment. Water's restricted. No one gardens. Most before-the-Event (BE) knowledge has been lost (computers were wiped out & few books remain). Andy wears a family heirloom - a PC pendant named Kojak. A team of scientists (The Watchers) strictly control scientific pursuits. Interacting with survivalists is discouraged because they know about banned technologies.
Andy's parents (Leo & Mani) are Watchers. The family travel to Zone 5 (formerly the Kimberley, Western Australia) to investigate survivalists' weather modification activities.Andy's family head off to locate the survivalists. Andy stays near the camp metal-detecting. He discovers a hologram disguising an amazing garden & meets a survivalist named David. He learns that David designed the original Kojak prototype.
Next day Andy secretly meets David again, but Leo & Mani discover them. David recognizes Mani as his daughter. While the adults catch up, Andy hangs out in David's workshop. He & Kojak activate David's time-travel invention & reappear in Karratha in 2022.
Andy's love for books draws him to the library to research forgotten technologies which might improve AE life in 2057. A student (David) helps him use the internet, & later they head back to David's place. Andy realizes David is his grandfather (back when he was 20). He also discovers that the Event will happen in 40 hours.
David is spending Christmas at his research station & decides to take Andy with him. Because he knows the future, Andy convinces David to take a fuel-oil press with him & also seeds - hinting he may be "desperate for food" in the days ahead.
Upon arrival at the research station, Andy discovers the incomplete time-travel transporter module in David's workshop & realizes it's the same workshop where his adventure began. Next day Kojak tells Andy to hide in the unfinished invention. During the Event, a plasma ball energizes the transporter module. Andy reappears in 2057 with the press - which will revolution everyone's AE lives. That evening he starts planning his next history changing trip - to the Svalbard heirloom seed vault (Book 2).
Andy & David are poles apart, but they discover they have a lot in common. They both desire to make the future a better place. Readers with an interest in alternative fuels, seed banks & inventions will resonate with this low-key sci-fi book. Like the other books in the Rebelutionaries series, the characters in this series are out to rebel against society's low expectations of teens and young adults. Content for homeschoolers includes low-key sex-education themes.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateDec 11, 2012
ISBN9781301341542
History Changers: Expedition 2022
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Beau Cornerstone

*Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labelled, "This could change your life!"*Gidday from Downunder!I produce educational resources for teachers, home-schooling families and distance education students. I also proofread manuscripts and teach students to improve their essays. And I write inspirational fiction and non-fiction for young adults.The e-fiction I have up on Smashwords at present is for readers who like thought-provoking, coming-of-age stories with a Christian vein.Some of my inspirational writing has been published in print format by traditional publishers. There is a place for printed books and magazines. However Smashwords is unique because it gives an author the freedom to be highly creative in their genre. An author can include dialogue between characters which will never be censored by an editor. The eBook might be labelled avant-garde by a mainstream publisher. But from the reader’s perspective it’s enjoyably different and potentially liberating.What’s compelled me to write avant-garde Christian fiction?I managed an Aussie Christian bookshop for a number of years and I remember the types of Christian books customers wanted. Often they were too risky for a traditional Christian publisher to print for a variety of reasons. Yet customers wanted to buy these types of books for themselves, their children or their grandchildren.I was particularly disappointed by the books that were on the market for Christian teens at the time. The cookie-cut college characters in the fiction books were so unobjectionable... they had clear complexions, pure thoughts and perfect partners. Meanwhile my pimple-faced, teen customers were sneakily reading the books on sex and depression from the counselling section (I knew this because I had to put the books back on the shelves after they left).As I’ve penned the Rebelutionaries series, I’ve kept in mind that my target audience are intrigued... interested... know-it-all... and sometimes bashful about their growing bodies and s-e-x. So the teenage characters in my books are intrigued, interested, know-it-all and sometimes bashful too.Why do I enjoy publishing through Smashwords?When I managed the shop, Christian books were mega-expensive. Even though we sold our books below recommended retail price, I knew that many people had to settle for buying something on sale rather than what they wanted. And seeing a customer leaving empty handed when I knew they wanted to buy a particular book really irked me...These are the days of recession, so it's more important than ever for writers and authors to provide affordable (even free) quality reading material to their readers. Fortunately this can be achieved through Smashwords.Before I read a book, I like to have a feel for where the author is spiritually. If you'd like to sus me out a bit more, find out the themes I address in my inspirational fiction or read about the facts which inspires each fiction eBook, check out my blog - http://beaucornerstone.blogspot.com.au/ Also check out my website - https://sites.google.com/site/proofreadingandwriting/ for samples of the educational resources which will eventually be available here on Smashwords.Beau

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