2073. Pre-Credit wars. The Earth is dying. War is coming. There will be no last minute miracles. Piper Dawn Douglas must make a choice: find a way to finance a space colony ship capable of carrying her children to a fresh start, or leave them to suffer. It comes with a price. She'll have to sacrifice those left behind, to do it. Not every innocent life can be saved, but it's a choice she gladly makes. Hundreds of years later, Level 4 Gemma must piece together technology to build a machine capable of protecting human life. But time is running out, and there's a problem with the machine. If she can't fix it, will it really be the end of the human race? Twins Dawn and Ryder Kyles embark on a life changing journey across space, searching for answers, for family, for life. When life on Earth was nearly wiped out by the quiet and heavy hand of mankind, hope changed its course. When mankind was again threatened with extinction, hope inspired. But is hope enough, to beat the universe and time itself? In our quest for survival, do the ends justify the means? Can faith, and hope, save us?

2073. Pre-Credit wars. The Earth is dying. War is coming. There will be no last minute miracles. Piper Dawn Douglas must make a choice: find a way to finance a space colony ship capable of carrying her children to a fresh start, or leave them to suffer. It comes with a price. She'll have to sacrifice those left behind, to do it. Not every innocent life can be saved, but it's a choice she gladly makes. Hundreds of years later, Level 4 Gemma must piece together technology to build a machine capable of protecting human life. But time is running out, and there's a problem with the machine. If she can't fix it, will it really be the end of the human race? Twins Dawn and Ryder Kyles embark on a life changing journey across space, searching for answers, for family, for life. When life on Earth was nearly wiped out by the quiet and heavy hand of mankind, hope changed its course. When mankind was again threatened with extinction, hope inspired. But is hope enough, to beat the universe and time itself? In our quest for survival, do the ends justify the means? Can faith, and hope, save us?

The book arose out of the authors' experiences in a project which was itself unique: The Cornell-Tompkins Committee for Free and Fair Elections in Fayette County, Tennessee. The project entailed six to eight weeks of living in Fayette County by forty-five volunteers, mostly students from Cornell University, in the summer of 1964. The project was financed entirely, to an amount exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, by the contributions of students, faculty, and townspeople in and around Cornell University, and by contributions from more distant places solicited by those involved at Cornell. Of the many things learned from the Cornell project, one of the most important was how responsive a community can become when confronted with a concrete civil rights program, one with which it can identify, one small enough to be feasible and intelligible, but still compelling in terms of the needs involved. The authors believe that many thousands of Americans can find no good answer to the questions What can I do. not because they are unwilling to do much, nor because there is little to be done, but because they lack the knowledge of what is needed where, and how and with whom one can go about responding to such needs. The book therefore undertakes, step by step, to describe and explain the development of the project at Cornell and its workings during the summer in Tennessee, and reasons that similar steps can be taken by others, with appropriate variations. It concludes with a detailed appendix listing civil rights projects and organizations desperately in need of help, whether in terms of money or volunteers or both.