Just got a marketing e-mail sent to me dated August 25 2502. Thought I would share it with you all:
AD2502– The Echelon Collection is
proud to announce the 50th anniversary edition of Coming
Home, author Yuris Okan's groundbreaking narrative of the Perthan
experience of the Second Inter-Solar War. This edition has been
lovingly restored to its 2452 format and includes a collection of
fascinating historic documents, commentaries, and analysis by modern
literary authorities who still debate this controversial work. For
those who have had the fortune to be reading Coming Home for the
first time, or those that approach it as an old friend, here is the
original synopsis provided by Golden Gift publications in 2452.
“At the close of IW-2 Yuris Okan is
on the razors edge. A conscripted soldier in Perth's genocidal war
machine, Okan has witnessed the failure and defeat of his planet's
Inter-solar ambitions first hand. Now he has been offered a slim
chance to claim amnesty from his nation's actions and return to his
home-world. It will mean a journey by train, ground car, and foot
over 32,000 kilometers and two continents. Along the way, he is
pursued by vengeful insurgents, dodges police and CSA soldiers, and
fears discovery by his own forces who would execute him as a deserter
or force him to die in doomed last stand. The vibrant life of
Gardenza, its verdant jungles, teeming mega-cities, and close knit
island communities shines in Okan's vivid descriptions. The stories
of its people show the power of the human spirit, which rises up even
in the face of the some of the worst tragedies and greatest
atrocities human kind has ever committed. Amid it all, Okan wishes
for the same thing many did in Gardenza as it teetered on the
precipice of anarchy. To go home...”
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Stay tuned...
