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Strange Future: A 23rd Century Guide for the 21st Century Cynic
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Published: March 09, 2010
Words: 69349 (approximate)
Language: English
Ebook description
Thomas Gordon's life was going just fine, until a chain of inexplicable mishaps results in Thomas getting fired. Fed up, he starts the search for a better life. Along the way, he meets a group of scientists with an intriguing escape route: human cryogenic preservation. Thomas and his 2 companions emerge in the 23rd century, and quickly discover it isn't exactly the "better world" they expected...Tags
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Review by:
kimmi
on July 29, 2011 :
EXCELLENT!!!! From start to finish!!! The author's concept of life 200yrs in the future was very believable and the character development throughout the book was also 'spot on' with how humans would react, put in that situation for REAL!! Will be buying a copy of this book for my personal collection!! Thanks Josh Smith.. Was an AWESOME story!!
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Review by:
Mark Jacobs
on March 17, 2010 :
A good, entertaining read; incorporating a universe of interesting ideas. It’s fascinating how the future is described in fiction depending on the author’s personal viewpoint, and their perception of who is deemed politically powerful at the time of writing. Although I realize most of this is satire, Josh has vividly drawn some aspects of a future world that is both believable and credible to even to an old Conservative like me. One minor note of criticism: I always cringe when I see a character in the future that is totally befuddled by events in the near or even distant past; i.e. Amazed that there was a time when there was no government control of reproduction (baby lottery). I think we should give future characters a little more credit. Good job, Josh! I hope to see more from you soon.
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Review by:
Mike Collins
on March 13, 2010 :
I liked it ... quite a bit.
Some of the parallels between now and the future were quite funny ... especially when they went to 'International House' and discovered the IHOP !
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Review by:
tinker
on March 10, 2010 :
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The epub version, at least, of this is unreadable due to poor formatting. The line spacing is to small, 0.13in. do people still use inches? I had to edit the css entries to double this value to stop the lines of text overlapping and while I was at it I removed the random page braks that Smashwords always adds and put in proper Chapter breaks.
As far as the story itself is concerned I have not yet read it so no rating is given yet. I have noticed while editing two errors. Buckingham Palace is not the home of the British Royal family, it is the official residence of the Monarch. The Queen lives mainly in Windsor Castle, other members of the Royal family live elsewhere. The other error, often made, is Big Ben, it is the nickname of the Great Bell and has only been seen by a handful of tourists, the clock tower of the Palace of Westminster is sometimes referred to as the tower of Big Ben.
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