Count Down - The Concise Epitaph of Humanity: A Dystopian Series

By Oscar Watson

Count Down: The Concise Epitaph of Humanity

There are thousands, no, millions of words that describe, define, or typify human endeavor. From self-help guides to precise biology, everything known about humanity is splashed on page after page, and has been so since the creation of the written word.

Earth is invaded, no, overborne by an unstoppable and inexorable enemy from beyond our dimension. These beings, beyond our comprehension, have begun to destroy our world, and have tendered an ultimatum. They demand that an unknown author, chosen seemingly at random, be tasked with giving a full disclosure, and a true apology for all of humankind, and in that same document he must explain to the impending executioners why we should be pardoned and allowed to live.

Count Down, however, is a very different kind of book, and you simply must read it, because it may mean the difference in your life from this point on. While it is a cautionary tale at this point, we could find ourselves in the specific situation where just such a book may be our only hope. If you have read dystopian literature, you have experienced the almost-but-not-quite version of Count Down.

This is the real deal. You will be glad you read it, and the compulsion to share with others will be inexorable. Because ultimately, how does one apologize for the species, and how does one explain the inexplicable?

Count Down will challenge you, engage you in your own explanation, your own words to explain and define what it is that drives you, how you think, what you do. It will not only cause you to question your motives, it will galvanize your convictions.

Don’t wait another minute. You have ten thousand words. Do what you can.

Don’t Delay. Download This Book Now.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Guava Books
• Release date: Mar 16, 2017
• ISBN: 9781540143235

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Count Down

The Concise Epitaph of Humanity

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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Table of Contents

Precursor

Ten- Explain How You Communicate.

Nine – Name Your Greatest Advancements.

Eight – Define Your Greatest Accomplishments.

Seven – Explain precisely what you are.

Six – Explain Your Greatest Universal Contribution.

Five – Outline Some of the Good Reasons for War.

Four - Explain Your Reasons for Economy.

Three – Define the Optimum Human Remembrance.

Two – Describe What You Expect to Change.

One – Should Humanity Be Given Another Chance?

Twenty Questions for the Reader.

Conclusion

Precursor

They came to conquer, annihilate, or balance the scales. Religious leaders argue that they came to take us home, free us from sin, or send us to hell, dependent on their personal beliefs. At this moment, the only known is that for some reason my computer is the only one left functioning in all the world. I don’t know why, and don’t understand how it is operating, as power has been stopped in every corner of the earth, all at the same instant. Except for the power in my home, my recreational vehicle, parked in a campground on the edge of the Mohave Desert, its gasoline engine ticking over on gasoline I was able to get from the owner of the site, when everything went to hell.

By appearance, our nemeses are not the bug-eyed and gratuitously ugly beings one would expect. Very similar to ourselves, with four appendages that are similar to our own, albeit with a smaller head and less clearly defined skeletal form, they move with fluid grace that suggests they live without gravity, without an atmosphere per se, and that they may even be from another dimension. Walls, doors, and such do not impede them, and it seems their ability to become invisible on demand may be a result of actually existing in multiple dimensions simultaneously. Our scientists would be fast at work deducing more than I can, had they the time, the tools, and the technology. But the simultaneous destruction of our physics as well as of our written and recorded literature seems a bit extreme. We won’t get the chance, don’t have the capacity to resist or overcome. The time is simply too short.

From all accounts, it seems they simply appeared in every capital, in every population center, from towns and villages in the Andes to Washington. Paris, and Beijing. When they appeared, physics seemed to fail. Guns and combustion engines failed. Electronics and computers ceased function. The entire electrical grid of the world just went inert. The internet died. So did millions of people, as the aircraft ceased functioning, as did every auto, every submarine, every ship. The level of catastrophe was global. Books, indeed, all printed materials ceased to be, seemingly stolen from their places, or atomized in an instant. This is a textbook apocalypse. The magnitude is unfathomable. Yet here I sit, my RV is still ticking over, the air conditioning has not failed, and the tiny electric fan that cools my brow as I type is still operational.

I don’t have much to go on, save the message I received at the moment it all went to hell, from an email message sent to my account