{"product_id":"9780987846884","title":"50,000 A.D. The Awakening","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat happens when a person from the 21st century wakes up 50,000 years in the future?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou might say that Henry Matthews is the luckiest man in the universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen an asteroid impacted North America, his head along with all his thoughts and memories were protected and preserved, allowing him to stay alive for 50,000 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• What does this far future hold?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Total peace?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Long life?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Enlightened Democracy?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . or something else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e50,000 years in the future\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry Matthews is about to embark on a journey of great discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat does this future think of him?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince their own ancient record of human existence only goes back 35,000\u003cbr\u003eyears, trillions of people are startled to discover the existence of an unknown ancient history when Henry awakens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, some refuse to believe human history is older than 35,000\u003cbr\u003eyears, so that could only mean one thing. Henry Matthews must be something other than a human being.\u003cbr\u003ev. . . but what?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis science fiction book also tries to establish relationships between 'ancient'\u003cbr\u003eand 'new' by comparing a few aspects of the different cultures and languages that you would expect to change over these vast periods of time: does the hero of the story manage to figure out what the new languages he encounters evolved from?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 1 \u003c\/b\u003e- How Henry Matthews finds his way to 50,000 A.D. after the meteor apocalypse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 2 \u003c\/b\u003e- How he is discovered and what anxiety and\/or thrills it causes in these future galactic alliances in both a political and spiritual way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 3 \u003c\/b\u003e- Henry is revived and his relationship to this new era is exposed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 4 \u003c\/b\u003e- Destroyer of worlds, cultures, or empires? This section has an answer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J. Jack Bergeron","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009988149488,"sku":"9780987846884","price":11.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780987846884_p0.jpg?v=1763892895","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780987846884","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}