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    The Age of Earth and Water
    The Age of Earth and Water
    The Age of Earth and Water
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    The Age of Earth and Water

    By Michael Corso

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    Centuries ago, the land was separated from the water with the enacting of the Land Relocation Compact. Now a young professor has discovered the treacherous path on which that decision has taken the human race. With war raging between Terra and Oceanus, Malitech, the world’s largest weapons manufacturer, has created a new machine that will wipe out the Oceanics for good. With tensions growing and mass genocide as a certain future, the young professor must seek out the Keeper of Gravity in order to gain peace for the sake of all.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael Corso
    Release dateMay 11, 2016
    ISBN9781311135063
    The Age of Earth and Water
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    Michael Corso

    I am a writer continuously learning and evolving, one who loves movies, superheroes, cartoons, and long dramatic pauses, but not in a soap opera way. You can read my stuff if you like. You just might be entertained. Or you might hate it. Who knows? Only one way to find out.

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      The Age of Earth and Water - Michael Corso

      THE AGE OF EARTH & WATER

      BY

      MICHAEL CORSO

      OTHER WORK BY MICHAEL CORSO

      SHORT STORIES

      A Rift in Time’s Regard

      Under the Willow Tree

      Below the Surface

      BOOKS

      The Fear Within

      The Adventures of James Squirrel

      Copyright © 2016 by Michael Corso

      Source material for cover image courtesy of Shutterstock.com

      All rights reserved. Published by Michael Corso through Smashwords.

      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This book may not be re-sold or given away to others. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      If you would like to contact Michael, please write him on Twitter @7MichaelCorso or on his blog, www.MichaeloftheBooks.wordpress.com

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Other Work by Michael Corso

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      About the Author

      Ladies and gentlemen, members of the board, I stand before you today because our oil reserves are depleted, ocean water distilleries are continuously being hijacked, our underground springs are all used up, and as result of our forefathers hasty mistakes we have no other water reserves in order to keep the people of Terra alive.

      The glass-walled room full of suited men and executive ladies sat silent. The young, rough-looking professor stood before them with a handful of papers in his hand and a projector displaying images on a screen. At this point he laid down the papers and turned off the projector.

      This leaves us with two choices, he said. Either we make a peace treaty with the Oceanics… The professor was cut off by an eruption of discordant clamor and a flailing of arms. He had to shout over them in order to continue. …OR we send an emissary to the keeper of gravity! All commotion stopped. And we can hope he will agree to realign the land once again as it was done with the great machines of old.

      An aged, red-haired man in a black suit and tie spoke up. "You don’t know what you are

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