2084: A Tale of Post America

In the year 2084, recent widower Carlton Smith, an executive with a robotics company named RUR, is forced to take his eighteen-year-old daughter Tori with him on a cross-country trip in a souped-up Humvee. If they can't find out who murdered the chief engineer for RUR and stole his prototype computer chip, the company will be forced into bankruptcy.In their quest, they must survive extreme weather conditions, as well as mutants, refuges, and gangsters, as they make their way between embattled city-states.In San Angeles, Carlton is befriended by the beautiful but mysterious Julia O'Brian. Is she really who she claims to be? Or is she part of the conspiracy to kill him and destroy the company?

Milt Timmons holds a PhD in Communications from the University of Southern California and has taught all aspects of Speech, Drama, Radio, T.V., film, and Journalism for thirty years. He was head of the Motion Picture Department at Los Angeles Valley College for twenty-two years, and head of the Broadcasting Department at Sam Houston State University, in Texas, before that. He is the author of several books, including "Orientation to Cinema," "Everything About the Bible That You Never Had Time to Look Up," and the philosophical novel, "Regarding an Angel's Flight." He wrote most of "2084" in the 1980s, but scheduling conflicts prevented bringing it to market earlier. Since this is a realistic novel, solidly based on scientific extrapolation, elements of the story that were regarded as sci-fi fantasy as late as 2006 have now become yesterday's news.