The Last Champion of Earth: 25th Anniversary Edition - Hardcover

Templeman, Donald I

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1532024290 ISBN 13: 9781532024290

Publisher: iUniverse, 2017

Synopsis

Today, humanity dreams of a time when all religious influences will fade into oblivion.

In the year 2174, the dream has been realized. God is a vulgar myth. The love and experience of life is an end unto itself. Material possessions are the measure of a person's worth. Sexual pleasure is the height of human ecstasy. There is no drug which cannot be abused. There is no conscience which cannot salve its own guilt. Man is truly the author of his own destiny...until the end of the Earth threatens to write the final climax.
Beneficent George is a King who loves the world and yearns to keep God from it. Louisette is a princess/whore who yearns to die. Anna Maria is the conscience of the world and yearns to save it from itself. Jean-Paul is a scientist who yearns for answers. Victor is the Champion who yearns to be King-Immortal. In 2174, mankind has finally made the world a paradise. But how will the inhabitants of the world survive on the dawn of total planetary annihilation?

About this title

From the Author:

"An unstable foundation is built upon shifting sands. A sturdy foundation is built upon a rock which endures all inclemency and adversity."
--Donald I. Templeman

From the Back Cover:

"I believe that God exists," Beneficent Georges grudgingly confessed.  "I simply do not believe in God.  For centuries, religion smeared its ranked stench upon every aspect of human life.  For millennia, billions of people huddled in their temples and their churches and their mosques trying to exorcise guilt for their imagined trangressions and reserve favor in some immortal afterworld.  They even warred in murderous hypocrisy over such ideals.  Tragically, pleasure and caprice became the enemy of life rather than its virtue.  Wealth became known as 'greed'.  The joy of sexual exploration became unlawful 'fornication'.  Even pride was reduced to 'vanity'.  And any proven fact of science outside the bindings of the 'good book' became heresy.  And for what?  The sake of His 'glory'?  The unverifiable promise of eternal life?  God be damned!  Let man have his day!"

The Alien's eyes swirled a hideous, bloody scarlet.

"Sand." it spoke in a gurgled wet baritone.

About this edition

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1532024290
• ISBN 13: 9781532024290
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400