The Blue Spark - John Hopkins

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Résumé :
Book Three in The Powers That Be trilogy, THE BLUE SPARK, paints a thought-provoking, action-packed vision of a dystopian future world with humankind on a razor's edge between science and morality, loyalty and betrayal, hope and despair, courage and fear, evolution and extinction.* * *A supernatural visitor entrusts an enigmatic cubed artifact with maverick archeologist Professor Ian Dury. Five years later, legendary robotics pioneer Mitsuo Kobayashi appropriates the top-secret cube, projecting a young woman's body and soul into sixteen sister replicants before the catastrophic consequences of playing God lay bare his hubris.Rachel and Owen Haig raise their precocious daughter, Hannah, out of the public eye and away from The Powers That Be (PTB) until events spiral their extraordinary lives asunder.With a vicelike grip on the PTB, a corrupted Andrew sabotages a quasi-utopian new world order, precipitating the return of an advanced alien hybrid prehuman civilization.25-year-old Hannah Haig leads a solitary life in 2070 as a drone tech aboard Thundercorp No. 5 when terrorists destroy the moon-like orbiting warehouse. A month later, estranged from her family and stricken with survivor's guilt, Hannah's Blue Spark inheritance manifests, leading to a transformative sacrifice that seals humankind's destiny at the end of a celestial path.On a future Earth reshaped by eons of cataclysmic upheavals, something stirs within the cube long since buried under the sands of time. Sometimes, history repeats....

Biographie:
Author and artist John Hopkins' passion for the science fiction genre and keen curiosity for what lies beyond common knowledge shape his character-driven storytelling. While active in his accomplished career in communication arts, John followed his muse, creating Lost Cactus, a comic strip set on a top-secret research base akin to Area 51. The 3-panel strip's supernatural mythology was expanded into a shared universe of short stories, sowing the seeds for his epic The Powers That Be trilogy.John is also developing graphic novels under the Lost Cactus Archives banner featuring the original comic strip's diverse cast in tales ripped from the legendary southwestern desert base's top-secret classified files.Discover more at www.johnhopkinsauthor.com

Sommaire:
Book Three in The Powers That Be trilogy, THE BLUE SPARK, paints a thought-provoking, action-packed vision of a dystopian future world with humankind on a razor's edge between science and morality, loyalty and betrayal, hope and despair, courage and fear, evolution and extinction.* * *A supernatural visitor entrusts an enigmatic cubed artifact with maverick archeologist Professor Ian Dury. Five years later, legendary robotics pioneer Mitsuo Kobayashi appropriates the top-secret cube, projecting a young woman's body and soul into sixteen sister replicants before the catastrophic consequences of playing God lay bare his hubris.Rachel and Owen Haig raise their precocious daughter, Hannah, out of the public eye and away from The Powers That Be (PTB) until events spiral their extraordinary lives asunder.With a vicelike grip on the PTB, a corrupted Andrew sabotages a quasi-utopian new world order, precipitating the return of an advanced alien hybrid prehuman civilization.25-year-old Hannah Haig leads a solitary life in 2070 as a drone tech aboard Thundercorp No. 5 when terrorists destroy the moon-like orbiting warehouse. A month later, estranged from her family and stricken with survivor's guilt, Hannah's Blue Spark inheritance manifests, leading to a transformative sacrifice that seals humankind's destiny at the end of a celestial path.On a future Earth reshaped by eons of cataclysmic upheavals, something stirs within the cube long since buried under the sands of time. Sometimes, history repeats....