The Centauri Conspiracy
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Addspeak:
Everyone cries as the story is told and view-screens fill with Mary the mechanical killing herself to save Dee, Woll, and the two children. It has made it possible for people to treat mechanicals more kindly, and it is common now to see mechanicals with young and old features.
Also, gradually the general knowledge that Clones live on other Planets and some of their offspring or great grandchildren might be half or a quarter-Clone took the sting out of Cloning. On the 18th reunion date the U.N. declared all Cloning laboratories lawful and Clones legal citizens. They could live wherever they wanted—even in the Clone Colony. After that date, any childless couple could apply for a permit from a local governmental unit for a cloned child and that approved permit carried weight equal to a birth certificate. The law stated that a cloned child was one not born of a human mother, and that for the usual office fee of nine dollars the new child’s name would be added to the official U.N. Computer memory banks. All fertility labs quickly added legal Cloning services.
Lastly, as I mentioned earlier, there is serious talk again at the highest levels of learning and government of setting our calendar back to zero. Some want zero to be the year that the U.N. became the government of earth. Others, a larger and growing group, argue for zero to be the launch date of New Horizons or a date near that. My wish is that it be the date and time Bakman was first arrested. Also, many, me included, want time before and after zero to be referred to as B.B. and A.B. (Before Bakman and After Bakman).
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G. Russell Peterman
About the author:
G. Russell Peterman is a graduate of Thomasville, Missouri High School, Southwest Missouri State College, and holds an M.A. in American History from Vanderbilt University. Gene Russell Peterman is married, a father, grandfather, and great grandfather. After retiring from teaching after 30 years in the classroom, he turned to writing. Gene Peterman writes as G. Russell Peterman. He collected up his forty years of poems and published a poetry book. Also, he has co-authored with his daughter Kriston Dunya four novels (two historical fictions and two science fictions) and three collections of short stories. After her passing he started writing alone. Writing his first novel alone was Luck’s Wild, a civil war story. Blue was his second and this effort, The Centauri Conspiracy, is his third alone novel and his eleventh offering.
Believing in Community service, Gene Peterman is a volunteer. At present he has been an active volunteer for 41 years. He was elected for 20 years to the Millersville Rural Fire District Board of Directors and served as a volunteer fire fighter and Treasurer and earned Missouri State Certification as a level 3 Fire Instructor. He was appointed Treasurer of Public Water Supply District number 2 and served for nineteen years. He was also appointed for two years to the Cape Girardeau County Planning Commission and was elected its Chairman.
Other books by the author:
Novels: Historical Fiction
*My Eyes are Red [creation of a western family]
*Afternoon Moon [an 1865 English child travels to Seattle]
Luck’s Wild [a Missourian in the Civil War]
Blue [April Barcroft's story midst Bird Point Swindle]
Novels: Science Fiction
*Tyro [earth's first alien 3 million years ago]
*Into the Void [mistreated Kai people leave galaxy]
The Centauri Conspiracy [peopling other planets]
Poetry:
i am cabbage [a forty year collection of free verse]
Western Heart Series: short stories collections
[Stories about the troubles western men had finding a wife]
*Marrying Tree Stores: Book One
*Crossing Niobrara: Book Two
*Woman’s Creek: Book Three
[Books four and five are in rough drafts]
*co-authored with my daughter Kriston Anne Peterman Dunya
There is an ebook and print format available for all titles except Luck's Wild, Blue, and The Centauri Conspiracy.