Peter Messmore

Emergia: A Chronicle of the Future Peter Messmore

The year is 2041 in America. The nation is split with political, ethnic/racial, and social dissension. Disparate groups work against each other and national unity. Courageous leaders emerge to reason with others who want to dissolve the United States of America. Against impossible odds they work to formulate strategies that will unify the nation. Courageous Americans strive to unify the nation and prevent national division. Then astronomical intruders intervene. Scientists, religious leaders, and secessionist leaders use these events to further their selfish goals. Supernatural occurrences complicate the national situation. Soon, America's rush toward division involves the world. A sobering fictional examination of America and humankind's fate in the next decades. A REVIEWERS COMMENTS ABOUT EMERGIAI finished reading your novel, Emergia. I found it to be absolutely fascinating. Like the fictional settings of Bradbury, Asimov, and Jules Verne - whose far-reaching intellects gave them the impetus to create visions of the future - the world you describe is both believable (based on historical and political realities) and incredible. You have held it all together with a strongly developed plot that made it hard to put the story aside. All the while, you propelled the reader headlong toward a destination that was both expected and feared. Emergia's conclusion leaves a powerful message: we had better get busy finding better ways to resolve our differences, not only in our relationships with other nations, but with other Americans. Failing that, our progeny could face the annihilation that your theme predicts. Thanks for sharing your amazing creation. I enjoyed reading it and was quite impressed with your insights.