Ancient Future - Hardcover

Roper, Charles D

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 140330825X ISBN 13: 9781403308252

Publisher: 1st Book Library, 2002

Synopsis

Ancient Future is a fantasy about the generations spanning our present age to 3000 A.C. It is a story that will titillate the imagination of young and old. Its theme is adult, but many of its ideas were inspired by the children the author worked with as a counselor for several years. The novel explores the heights of human aspiration and potential amalgamated with greed and selfishness that erode the quest for utopia. Overview of story: Puzzled by inconsistencies in the historical accounts of his ancestors with data collected in the archives, king Antiochus is determined to find the truth he believes is being intentionally kept from him. Like pieces of a puzzle, he compiles the stories together, but remains unsatisfied. How could the preceding generation have survived a similar catastrophe that wiped out the ancient dinosaurs? Claiming the earth's human population was once over six billion inhabitants, how was that reduced to two-hundred wandering souls in just one day? Yet in spite of their claimed losses, the survivors would establish four renowned nations; Cynacia, Palacia, Sapphire and Addae. These nations would all excel in genetic engineering and alter to varying extents, the natural aging process. This would enable their generations to live centuries in their prime. The frontier of space would become overshadowed by the quest to unlock the secrets of time manipulation. Yet this generation would unexpectedly encounter time's ancient nemesis in their unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Nonetheless, who and from where was this ancient nemesis and what was he compiling on them? But Antiochus discovers that the answer does not come from the past as he slowly unravels a reality beyond his wildest imagination in an encounter that again alters the course of history by having the meddling king summonsed directly into the presence of the future!

About this title

From the Author:

For those that read my books and supported me throughout the years, thanks again.  Charles Darren Roper.

About the Author:

Born in Brooklyn New York and raised in the Virgin Islands, Charles D. Roper is an artist with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and a Masters in Business. The inspiration for this story came from a combination of original artwork and stories he would tell to young hospitalized children. Stories made the more special when they brought smiles on the young faces of children struggling with varying types of behavioral disorders. In most of his stories, the author attempts to invoke the reader to deep thought by stimulating the imagination with images and emotions that will hopefully span the spectrum of the readers psyche. Many of the characters in this story are not extreme, but patterned after true to life figures that though sometime villainous to one, may prove gracious to another.He once aspired to become a minister, but recognized his independent style of thinking often made him considered too controversial for many. It is the same pattern of thinking that is incorporated in his writing, which often shows more than one side of controversial figures, as well as ideas often considered taboo. Many of the characters, beloved or hated are sure to conjure up images of persons to which the reader is already acquainted.

About this edition

• Publisher: 1st Book Library
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 140330825X
• ISBN 13: 9781403308252
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512