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| Chapter 00 | "Prologue: Living In The Pools We Soon Forget..." | Read it! |
| | How much we are like busy little creatures, living in the tidal pools... |
| Chapter 01 | "When the Chain Reaction was Done" | Read it! |
| | Michael Gavon is powerless as he watches nuclear destruction descend on America and the world. Does he have the power to save us? And if so, why didn't he exercise it? |
| Chapter 02 | "To Pass the Evening with a Drink and a Friend" | Read it! |
| | Michael Gavon chats with his lifelong friend, Lisa MacClaren and between them, they discover the secret of how to change the world... |
| Chapter 03 | "Big Money Weave a Mighty Web" | Read it! |
| | Michael Gavon and his co-workers, Dan Crowley and Rusty Merritt find a clue to some real motivation to eliminate nuclear weapons.. besides the obvious! |
| Chapter 04 | "Right to the Heart of the Matter" | Read it! |
| | Through Dan's referral, Email and Chat, Michael meets Marena San Leoni, a Free Trade Analyst who holds the key to Michael Planet-saving analysis, but in fact, she may have a couple other keys on her keychain. |
| Chapter 05 | "Cut to the Chase" | Read it! |
| | Michael demonstrates a fact that is true for nearly everyone, but himself more than all: "I'm too busy! I don't have time to save the world!" In discussing men, women and lonliness with Lisa, he reveals his definition of 'intimacy.' |
| Chapter 06 | "A Tiny Moment of Truth" | Read it! |
| | In preparing to meet Marena, Michael receives a simple computer file, that changes, not only his life, but the course of history as we know it. Seriously... |
| Chapter 07 | "To Mold a New Reality" | Read it! |
| | Michael and the Gang at Rivendell are armed with "The Truth", but what is the target, and how do you fire the dang thing!? Would watching your own hometown being nuked change your perspective? Sure it would! What would you do to prevent you own extinction? |
| Chapter 08 | "You Know How Complex Women Are..." | Read it! |
| | The Arrival of Marena provides a solution for Michael's last sticking point before he faces the United Nations. But that night, Michael goes into deep cover into enemy territory to discover the oldest, most hidden secret on earth... What secrets lurk in the heart of a woman? |
| Chapter 09 | "He's Got to Walk a Fine Line" | Read it! |
| | Michael learns the secret of 'walking that fine line', as he realizes that the line is between horizontal and vertical... at the edge. |
| Chapter 10 | "Linked to one another..." | Read it! |
| | In a demonstration of his intense respect, Michael gives Marena the reins of his information gathering leviathan, but Marena discovers a secret that she wasn't looking for. |
| Chapter 11 | "A Beacon in the Darkness" | Read it! |
| | With his heart and mind so torn by his mission and fear of losing it, Michael is caught in a trap that he should have seen coming... |
| Chapter 12 | "The Lens between Wishes and Fact" | Read it! |
| | In preparing to face the UN, Michael learns what a difference a word can make... Don't say when when you mean if, don't say if if you mean when. |
| Chapter 13 | "Open Letter to the Powers that Be..." | Read it! |
| | Michael faces the United Nations, and unveils to them, The Truth... a truth that has waited for mankind to discover it for either 55 or 5500 years. |
| Chapter 14 | "Living in the Pools" | Read it! |
| | As popular support for Michael's Mission grows, Michael discovers a power that can bring whole countries to their knees, in the most unlikely place... a clothing store. Adrienne, as she prefers to be called, and being the dark angel that she is, helps Michael obtain the most precious substance on earth... |
| Chapter 15 | "To Cover Your Neck" | Read it! |
| | Michael and his angels wield a power that can bring peace and security to the world as a whole... so why is someone trying to kill him? And by what miracle does he survive? Also, Michael makes a choice that could either send him, and the planet, to Heaven or Hell. Which, remains to be seen... |
| Chapter 16 | "But What Am I To Do?" | Read it! |
| | The Good News: With Michael strangely incommunicado, Adrienne single-handedly conquers Germany, brings the Internet to its knees, as only she could, and shifts the balance of the nuclear powers. The Bad News: With anti-nuke momentum crushing down on the nuclear powers, Marena makes the more-than-ultimate sacrifice to save the world as a whole, and nearly kills Michael in the process. |
| Chapter 17 | "Wonders in the World They Wrought" | Read it! |
| | With Marena gone, Adrienne bravely steps into the gap and covers Michael's assembled array of information, as he diplomatically battles the US and Russia at the anti-nuclear brink. But what is Adrienne really after? And why is she talking to a beautiful stranger... a stranger who will ultimately ignite the wildfire that sweeps the world, leaving the US and Russia breathless in it wake? |
| Chapter 18 | "Imagine a Time When It ALL Began!" | Read it! |
| | Watch the CNN coverage as it all comes to an end. And Michael, as he always wanted to... gets to watch! |
| Chapter 19 | "Big Money Draws Flies" | Read it! |
| | Michael is charged with saving the world from the single most toxic substance on earth... all 300 tons of it! Calling on his lifelong friend, Computer Jock Extraordinaire, Bevin Kendall, they begin an odyssey to make HAL 9000 jealous... a Database that borders on the edge of Omniscience. And it was so logical to name it SYRINX. But one simple, logical choice may 'spell' disaster for Michael, literally forever. Just how much damage can 3 numerals do? Can anyone save him from his logic? One meek woman tries. |
| Chapter 20 | "Grand Designs" | Read it! |
| | After facing insurmountable obstacles, Michael, Bevin and the crew begin to gather the data needed to answer the most difficult question ever asked of mankind, until... |
| Chapter 21 | "Our Causes can't see their Effects" | Read it! |
| | ...Planetary Biologist Marcus Hagar seeks SYRINX's analysis of a disaster in a box... Biosphere ]['s ecosystem has collapsed, and would have killed its residence. Could the same thing happen to the earth? And if so, when... and if so, how do we stop it? One question at a time... Strangely enough, they may have gained some insight into the Book of the Revelation. |
| Chapter 22 | "Vital Signs" | Read it! |
| | Garnering every piece of data that the planet has, Michael, Marcus, Bevin and Daniel begin a test that will impact us all... how long until the Earth can no longer support us? |
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| Chapter 23 | "Red, Not Blue" |
| | SYRINX answers it's awesome question, and the answer is not 42. And I'm not going to reveal the results here, but let me ask you this... What are you doing in 2015? |
| Chapter 24 | "The Ones Who Start" |
| | Michael is again at the UN, because the people in charge are the least qualified to make the decisions... If you were in a plane that is losing altitude, would you want to form a committee to discuss the issues? |
| Chapter 25 | "Turn the Page" |
| | Knowing the answer is only half the battle... you have to pass it on... |
| Chapter 26 | "Reaction Burning Hotter" |
| | If you were trying to save the world, you'd expect a lot of popular support... dream on! |
| Chapter 27 | "To Any God or Government" |
| | Michael takes his message directly to the people of earth, and the some of the people come directly at him. SYRINX distills out the 4 root causes of our fate... and you will not like them. How many lives is a political ideal worth? 2 million? 20 million? 60 million? |
| Chapter 28 | "The Minds to Lead Us..." |
| | Two questions:
- Who would you believe if they told you something?
- Who would you follow if they asked you to do something?
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| Chapter 29 | "The Declaration of InterDependence" | Read it! |
| | THE DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE
1/1/2007 -- InterDependence Day
"We the people of the World, in order to avert a collapse of the EcoSphere, promote the survival and prosperity of all life on earth, preserve global peace, and enhance the unification of the world as a whole, declare our inter-dependence, and willingly enter into this covenantial constitution..." |
| Chapter 30 | "A God, A King, A Head of State" |
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Let all behold, the CROWN of gold
SCEPTRE and THRONE of global power...
All hail the GRAIL, the ORB and ROBE
Ordained to save the whole world of ours
We shall not cease environmental fight
Nor shall the SWORD sleep in our hands
Till we've rebuilt the Earth again...
Redeemed the green and pleasant land...
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| Chapter 31 | "Purposeful Motion" |
| | Michael stops his life for a while to meet a girl he has loved all her life. |
| Chapter 32 | "Thinking about the Overhead, and the Underfed" |
| | How do you defeat a local strong man? How do you frighten The King of Terror? By beating them at their own game. What can you do when a local band of thugs holds a so-called country's populace hostage? Send in a squadron of Stealth Bombers with very specific targets, and a very powerful payload... |
| Chapter 33 | "Checking out the Long Range Forecast" |
| | It's been 8 years since SYRINX gave us the bad news... does it have any good news? |
| Chapter 34 | "In the End..." |
| | Who would you trust to save the world as a whole?
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