Kirjahaku

All was as it should be. The ski conditions were textbook; the skies were deep blue, the wind was calm, it was twenty-four degrees and there were three inches of fresh powder sitting on top of a finely tuned base. There could not have been a more perfect day to begin altering the course of history. This is the epic story of Alexander Gabriel, a brilliant 43-year old investment broker, who, following a skiing accident, finds himself inexplicably hurled back thirty-five years in time and forced to begin his life over as an eight year old. Imagine the fantasy of returning to a younger age while retaining your hard-earned wisdom. Imagine the wonderful life you would lead, the mistakes you would easily avoid, the opportunities missed that you could now grab at will. However, these fantasies never include the terror and confusion of being cast back to one's youth; but there would be a great deal of confusion and a great deal of terror.

This novel begins where The Gabriel Chronicles: Book 1-the Beginning ends. After the World Guidance Council (WGC) had taken complete control of the world's governments and Alexander Gabriel had relinquished control of the WGC, he turned his mind to other things, extraordinary things. Scientists and engineers, led by the incomparable Dr. Isley and financed by Gabriel Industries, began designing and perfecting a new generation of prosthetics. These lifelike prosthetics looked, felt, and moved like a natural limb, allowing amputees throughout the world to begin living normal lives. But Alex, Dr. Isley, and his team didn't stop there. They took this incredible technology to its ultimate conclusion. They built a complete, viable, synthetic life form (SLF). But again, this wasn't the end of Alex and Dr. Isley's contributions. Over the following ten years, they designed and built a ship, a colossal ship-a ship to take all the best from Earth to colonize another planet.

In the middle of the twenty-first century, an exceptional group of men and women set out to colonize another planet, which would come to be known as the planet Gabriel. Meanwhile, those who were left behind create SLFs-synthetic life-forms designed to aid humanity. Then, in the twenty-fifth century, the earth is destroyed by a massive asteroid, with a small group of humans and SLFs just barely escaping. Now they and the colonists of Gabriel are all that remain of the human race. The Gabriel Chronicles, the last volume of a trilogy, tells the story of the extraordinary lives and adventures of the men and women living in this new world. It tells of the birth of two infants who were extraordinary in appearance and abilities and who may represent the next step in human evolution. As humanity works to establish itself on Gabriel, the colonists experience miracles, natural disasters, and the new planet's first murder. They also encounter an ancient race of alien beings whose intelligence and technology are far beyond those anything they could imagine. Now only time will reveal humankind's new place among the races of the galaxy. In this science fiction novel, the third in a series, following the destruction of Earth, human colonists work to establish themselves on a distant planet among alien beings.