Turn of the Century: 2100

Charlie Pedersen
Outskirts Press (2007)
ISBN 9781598003291
Reviewed by Debra Gaynor for Reader Views (2/07)

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Synopsis: When Alyson Higgs particle physics team in Berkeley, California, along with quantum science labs around the world, receive a visitation by a photon probe from the year 2108, they have to enlist the CIA and Interpol to engage criminal forces and terrorists intent on preventing world changing directives from reaching the United Nations General Assembly.
  
Turn of the Century (TOC) 2100 is set on an international stage where strong female and male characters clash over the major conflicts that embroil the early twenty first and twenty second centuries. But don't expect a search for the guilty. TOC s heroes and villains will take you where you must go in order to survive.
 
You'll be drawn into the romance and intrigue of discovery as events in Asia, Europe, and the USA culminate in New York City. A vision of life at the turn of the twenty second century unfolds as the future embraces our tumultuous times.
 
They say that hindsight is 20/20! Imagine the halls of power being confronted with future-sight facing foretellers of consequences of our current direction: energy demand; fresh water stress; terrorism, human trafficking, and genocide; global ecology and health crises; multi-culturalism; and militarism. Join the international quest where science and law enforcement face you with the facts: mass denial has reached its limits and it is necessary for the citizens of the world to change our destiny.  
 
When the passion of commitment meets the power of denial, be prepared for something we know in our guts we must have: answers.
 
In a world of trillion dollar economies and business cartels, the feelings of powerlessness and overwhelming complexity demand a new world equation that reflects our global codependency. Leadership must respond to the currency of its citizen s collective will, but will it?
 
Our interaction through the space-time continuum begs the question: if someone came to us from one hundred years in the future, what do you think they would say and could our world leaders face the facts. 
 
It's our turn, our Turn of the Century!