Ultimate Downsizing - Softcover

Furst, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1419619977 ISBN 13: 9781419619977

Publisher: BookSurge Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

In the 22nd Century, Planet Earth has evolved into The Eternal Kingdom of Peace. Ruled by one King, decision is made to initiate a Mission into neighboring planets to help them attain the same perfect state .A Planet called Balder is to be the first. An Emissary from Balder is invited to travel to Earth to be instructed in its ways. A space shuttle is launched from Earth when Halley's comet passes in 2138. The shuttle rides the comet's tail, and arrives near Balder in 2188. After some shuttle exchanges, The Emissary travels to Earth. The Emissary learns, that since 2005, downsizing and mergers reduced the number of organizations to one entity: Planet Earth Inc. Human participation has ceased; work is executed by robots and computers. There is universal profit sharing, total financial comfort, no crime and no war.

About this title

About the Author:

Jan Furst is a retired Naval Architect and Marine Engineer, living on Bowen Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Born in Oslo, Norway in 1913, and educated at the University of Danzig (now Gdansk) he worked in the Shipbuilding Industry in Norway for many years. After having emigrated to Canada with his family in 1962, he continued there, first as a Shipbuilder, then as a consultant to the offshore oil and marine industries In Canada, Indonesia, United States and Bahamas. He was a commissioner on the Royal Commission on the Ocean Ranger Disaster and now volunteers for marine related and other activities. He has an honorary doctorate from Memorial University of Newfoundland. He published “Kajakksport og Kajakkbygging”(Oslo, 1931), a treatise on the construction and use of kayaks. He has a life-long interest in Old Norse sagas and pre-Columbian North American history and culture. His special interest in this field led him to speculate on the mysterious disappearance of the Icelanders and Norwegians, who 500 years before Columbus had settled on Greenland, but abandoned their colonies less than 100 years before the “official” discovery of North America. This led him to write the semi historical novel “Thorfinn Thorhallson’s Saga”, which is a plausible account of what happened to them. Jan is still very active, writing short stories and poems, teaching fencing for a small group on Bowen, and is a member of the Toastmasters there. He has developed a system for amateur building of kayaks and small boats. One son, whose wife and two children live in BC, his other son; whose wife, one daughter and two grandchildren live in Ontario, his other daughter in BC. This year he is publishing his second novel: “Ultimate Downsizing”. It is a science fiction book, predicting the state of life on Planet Earth in the 23rd. century. His vision is based on extrapolation of present trends in technology, social structure and global economy, sprinkled with fantasy of development that may or may not happen. Bowen Island, October 24, 2005 Jan Furst

About this edition

• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1419619977
• ISBN 13: 9781419619977
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 90