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    The New World
    The New World
    The New World
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    The New World

    By John Walters

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    In post-apocalyptic Sicily a megalomaniac has taken over one of the last outposts of an interstellar colonization program, and organized crime has assumed political control of the island. A man caught in the middle of these conflicts struggles to save his wife and with her join a team making one last effort to reach the stars.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Walters
    Release dateMay 14, 2011
    ISBN9781458083104
    The New World
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    John Walters

    John Walters recently returned to the United States after thirty-five years abroad. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He attended the 1973 Clarion West science fiction writing workshop and is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America. He writes mainstream fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and memoirs of his wanderings around the world.

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      The New World - John Walters

      The New World

      by

      John Walters

      Published by John Walters at Smashwords

      Copyright 2011 by John Walters

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold reproduced, or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or if it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

      This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons places or events - except those in the public domain - is purely coincidental.

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      The New World

      The journey to the stars is the great leveler. Gone are social definitions, class distinctions, caste separations. Gone religion, gone politics, gone gender. Borders no longer exist. We are free. We can wipe the slate clean and start again.

      --Daniel Darqueth

      * * *

      The windstorm swept over southern Sicily, bursting down upon the villa and exhaling its hot dry desert breath, whistling through cracks between windows and sills and under doors, picking up debris and hurling it about, spewing out red Saharan dust like ashes from hell. It continued undiminished through the first afternoon and night and all the second day. If anyone ventured outdoors it knocked them off their feet, took their breath away, clogged their ears and nostrils, stung their eyes, forced grit between their teeth.

      Late the second night the wind increased, and the ropes that tethered Lazarus’s trailer onto the patio snapped. The trailer slid across the concrete and smashed against the iron grill of the front gate. Nobody was inside, but the fiberglass shell was badly dented and the contents of the cupboards were strewn all over the floor.

      In the uncanny calm the following morning, the sun shone brightly on the vermilion and ochre sand that covered the ground and every other exterior surface like snow.

      Lazarus awakened in a foul mood. He came outside in his boxer shorts and immediately began shouting orders to balance the trailer and reinforce its tethers, to sweep the patio and porches, to clear away debris. Then he called for his breakfast, and sat on a plastic chair chewing eggs and toast and drinking coffee as he watched

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