[Lens of Time 01] • The Pyramid Builders
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- Authors
- Andrew, Saxon
- Publisher
- Saxon Andrew Publishing
- Tags
- science fiction
- Date
- 2012-04-11T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.27 MB
- Lang
- en
Dr. Christopher Connor has discovered a way to view the past. His invention
collects light and focuses it such that events that occurred on Earth years
ago can be viewed. All one need do is travel one light year away and one can
see what was happening on the planet a year earlier by capturing and focusing
the reflected light that left Earth a year ago. There’s only one problem: no
ship exists that can travel faster than the speed of light, so his device
cannot be conclusively demonstrated to function as advertised. That’s fine
with Christopher, who would much rather party and have a good time rather than
defend his creation against critics and governmental bureaucrats. Besides, who
would pay to view the past anyway?
Jillian Gordon, an Egyptologist with a PhD in Quantum Physics, has discovered
that the survival of Earth depends on viewing what happened at the building of
the Great Pyramid of Khufu five thousand years in the past. Christopher’s
device would allow her to do just that and she intends to draft him into the
project. Christopher is about to discover that the organization Jillian works
for has engineered a starship with a faster-than-light drive, which will now
allow his device to be field tested. The stardrive for that ship was developed
from diagrams carved on the back of an ancient stone tablet excavated at the
site of the Great Pyramid.
Life for Christopher is about to make a radical departure from his party,
happy-go-lucky lifestyle. Getting Christopher to focus on what needs to be
done is a problem Jillian hadn’t counted on in her quest to save humanity. The
predicted destruction of Earth, which is carved on the front of the tablet,
doesn’t leave her much time and Christopher isn’t cooperating.
What neither of them know is that the answer to survival is more than sixty
five million light years away in light that left Earth just before the mass
extinction of the dinosaurs.