This is a pure fiction novel based on a very vivid and lucid dream
that I experienced in early 2009. It was a dream (or perhaps
nightmare vision) from my subconscious which envisaged a World War
Four (IV) scenario in the first decade of the 22nd Century. In my
dream I saw only three major powers. The Eastern Empire. The
Western (Catholic Empire). And a third force called the Cartels
grouped into a Northern and Southern faction. The entire planet
Earth was the battleground. This Fourth World War started around AD
2030 after a thermonuclear and catastrophic Third World War from
2017 to 2023. All the 196 or so nations were wiped out and the
world's population reduced from close to 7.5 Billion to only 600
million. The Western Empire was formed by survivors falling back on
their religious faith, which I dreamt was primarily Catholicism.
The rest of the world was non-Christian including the loose
amalgamation of warlords called the Northern and Southern Cartel.
The Western Catholic Empire was ruled by a self-styled Vice
Cardinal. His Clergy were in revolt during the first decade of the
22nd Century. However, he was a secular as well as an
ecclesiastical leader and the Army and the Imperium still supported
his government. The Clergy leaders, Bishops and Prelates, had their
own vast private armies or Militias. Civil War was about to
commence at a time when the seven Western Armies still loyal to the
Vice Cardinal were losing the Fourth World War all around the globe
from Europe to Asia to the Pacific. This work of fiction took 5
years to write and is approximately 557,900 words in length. It is
just one vision of one person from one dream as to one possible
scenario for a world at the brink of annihilation amongst countless
other visions and possibilities of the future to come. It is not a
heart-warming vision but a harrowing tale of terror, fanaticism,
pathogenic psychological madness and brutal conspiratorial plots to
achieve factional and individual supreme power at any cost,
regardless of the ultimate consequences for mankind and the already
devastated and irradiated environment in a world where technology
has regressed almost to a standstill and which has been polluted by
a Nuclear Winter has predicted by Professor Paul Ehrlich of
Stanford University.
General
Imprint: |
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2014 |
First published: |
February 2014 |
Authors: |
David Peter Ehrlich
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Dimensions: |
235 x 191 x 38mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
754 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4942-1553-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Science fiction
Promotions
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LSN: |
1-4942-1553-5 |
Barcode: |
9781494215538 |
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