Prospero's Staff: A Utopia

“We have met the enemy . . andis it me?”

A 21stcentury detective awakens on a Cape Cod beach 2,000 years in the future with no memory. She’s stunned at what she’s told. She’s either pursuing a group of time-traveling terrorists from her era who want to steal 41st century technology and change history—or she’s one of them!

Each day of her adventure reveals something deeply unsettling.Homo sapiens’self-destructive weaknesses led to a third world war, planetary devastation, and the species going extinct. It has been replaced by a more advanced version of humanity that has rejected everything about her time and built a dramatically different society. In addition, she now possesses psychic abilities, has telepathic encounters with dolphins, and experiences visions about a past life—all supposedly impossible for a member of her species. A prophetic text from an ancient chronicle suggests she is part of a larger drama that has stretched over centuries and is coming to a dramatic conclusion.

And as if that weren’t enough, she is kidnapped by the terrorists and learns that her supposedly dead husband had faked his death. He tells her that the two of them are the architects of the plan to change the timeline, stop the war from ever happening, and save millions of lives. He pleads for her help. However, even if the plan ishers, it will prevent the existence of the people in this time whom she’s grown to know and love. And gaps in her memory make her worry her husband could be manipulating her. Why has she really traveled to the future? Which world deserves to exist? What should she do?