Release date: May 18, 2016
Subgenre: Hard Science Fiction
About The First New Martians:
A Novel by Eric W. Deakin about how Humankind began the ascent to the
stars via inner space and those who made it possible. How an old
soldier, his dog and a young Aboriginal girl, with help from the Axis
Engineers, changed the history of humankind forever. How more money than
the collective wealth of the entire world was spent on this mission.
Excerpt:
Prologue
Here I am, now the most powerful human that I know of, in all of our history.
I have, in my hands, the ability to protect all of mankind. Yet should they
threaten the viability of their planet, I also have the power to destroy them.
Should I help them make of themselves what “I”
think they should be? As Baron Acton once wrote, “absolute power corrupts,
absolutely”. The immense responsibility of this situation in which I now find
myself, is a huge diversion to my
image of self. I have shelved this problem. I will do nothing,
yet. For many years I wondered at
politicians who did nothing, and remained popular. I now have a better
knowledge of their dilemma. Have I become, as a god? Am I subject to a god? Am
I now a part of the plan of a godlike
power? The God of my childhood began with his god-ship over mankind. He had been an overlord, giving order to everything.
It had seemed to me then, the universe he created and most of the creatures
therein, were well ordered. But
mankind was ever a disordered species. The God of the Old Testament tried very
hard to order mankind into his
ethics. He had little success. Eventually he cleansed the world of almost all
of mankind. A few he chose to continue on under his order and they did so. Very
soon mankind was going on full ahead
just as before. At least this god was a quick learner. He gave up being an
overlord. Mankind would now have to learn from his own mistakes. God would not
intervene. He would reward those who did as he ordered, in a heavenly
afterlife. Some kind of dark brother
of God would punish those who disobeyed in an antithesis of this heaven, after
their death. The priests of God, as did always the priests of all gods, found
great power and profit in this ideology. One could only ascend to the utopia
which waited for them, through the approval of God’s church and its
priesthoods. Everyone else would be subject to the ravages of the dark
anti-God. Those who did not accept the power of God and his priesthood, were to
be punished. There was no other God but God. Much of the world went into the dark ages, where truth was subject to
the approval of the priesthood. The priesthood became more and more powerful in
these times. God seemed somehow to be an absent slave of his priesthood, used
by them to further their own power. The advent of the freedom given science and
the resulting industrial revolution, which might never have occurred under priestly rule, reversed all this. God
still seemed to be absent but the priests became much less powerful. Mankind
was now looking for new leadership and guardianship. Would God rise up again to
take this needed place? Could “I” serve the God of my childhood and take this
place in his name? Or should I take this place and impose my own ethics and
that of the Axis fearing not the God
of my childhood?
How I came to be in this position is an almost unbelievable story. Where it all leads, shows the many open possibilities available to humankind.
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About Eric W. Deakin:
Eric
W Deakin was born in the United Kingdom in 1947. He immigrated to
Australia with his family while still a child. He began a career in
Electronics in the 1960s. He retired as a fire service officer in
1996 when he built his own home in a small fishing village on Kangaroo
Island. He has been a yachtsman and lived aboard his yacht for 15 years.
He now travels aboard a 13 ton truck he has converted into a mobile
home with his wife Judy and his standard poodle Grace who helps
with the writing and plays a cameo role. He has a passion for
science and technology and a disdain for the dogmas of politics and religion.
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