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The Ark Society
Novels
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This set of tales is also
based on the Village of Tomorrow designs, but on the assumption that we
need some way to preserve at least a few pages out of Mother Earth's
encyclopedia against the absolute worst thing that could happen to
Earth short of total destruction. There are actually three novels, but
the third is only about 2/3rds complete, so it won't be available for
download.
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The Bar at World's End
Sarah
Engelhardt, a marine biologist who has learned how to communicate with
the cetaceans but not how to get tenure, decides at the last possible
moment to accept the invitation to present a paper at the Ark Society's
Colloquium in Colorado.
Very much to her surprise, she discovers from Dr. David Weisel, an
astrophysicist specializing in gamma ray bursters, that Earth is about
to have a close encounter with a peanut-sized, Earth-mass black hole.
Nothing will ever be the same again. Not only will everyone outside the
Arks die, so will most of the biosphere. Nor is survival of the Arks a
foregone conclusion.
Sarah finds she must yank David out of his suicidal despair so that
together they can work with Mother Earth to keep everyone within the
Arks, human and not, alive through the very long hours of closest
approach.
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To read The Bar at World's End,
right click here
and select "Save Target
As..." (in Firefox, "Save link target as...") to download the pdf file.
It could take awhile on a 56K modem so be patient.
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Voyage of the Flying
Dutchman
Tony
Niccolo, an engineer by trade, has made himself responsible for
designing, building, and flying The
Flying Dutchman, a dirigible able to carry 8 passengers and
their companion animals in reasonable comfort. His mission is to begin
setting up a network of aerostat-based communications relays so that
the Arks, barely able to communicate via short wave radio, may again
have a
robust method of sharing information.
With Melinda Walking Horse, his second in command, and a crew of
teenagers recruited to keep them from trying to boldly go where no one
could possibly survive, Tony must contend not only with Really Bad
Weather, but with a ruined world barren of life, desperately lonely
people in the other Arks, and all new diplomatic protocols between
humans and their companion animals.
Take a tour of an Earth with a 96 hour day and a 2 week precession, as
well as a 90 degree axial tilt. Oh, and a 500 standard day, highly
elliptical orbit.
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To read Voyage of the Flying
Dutchman, right click here and select
"Save Target
As..." (in Firefox, "Save link target as...") to download the pdf file.
It could take awhile on a 56K modem so be patient.
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Return to Eden
Carla
Wellington, Founder of the Ark Society, is feeling very old and tired
after 10 Jahre (about 13 years) of struggling to keep the Arks alive in
a world so changed it will be at least 100,000 years before it will
even begin to return to what had been considered normal. But she
discovers she has friends and family who want her to be happy, for she
is the new Eve.
She soon discovers her new Adam is Davi Weisel's uncle, Harry Weisel,
much to his dismay. As he had been her principal assistant in founding
the Ark Society and building the Arks, it seems only fair that they
should take a tour of the world aboard The Flying Dutchman and share their
tale with all the children who have no idea what the world used to be
like. Along the way, they check out the state of
the world--still uninhabitable--and the Arks, including the Australian
and African Arks not visited earlier.
Again, this story is incomplete, so it is not available for download.
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If you like these tales,
please feel free to pass the link along, and let me know if you'd like
to see more of them. Just email me at tkholmes1951@hotmail.com
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