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The following is the review of the book 30th Century: Escape by Mark Kingston Levin, PhD. The book was published in 2017.
For those who are fans of TV shows such as ‘The Flash’, this book is just perfect for you to read. The book talks about a character Jennifer Heros, as the captain who grew up in Montreal but had to serve on a mission to save human species from extinction. She had a second-in-command Kylie Brown who served in her absence.
They were in a mission to Pacifica Anthozoa, Moruroa to contain a deadly virus made by Australian Syndos-run government that could lead to human extinction. The virus had the potential to contaminate everything that a human species consumed such as water. They attempted to turn back time to the 27th century from the 30th century they were in.
The book reveals how Invention is put to work and becomes successful. The minds behind such things never get to see their work come to fruition like chemist Zexton Ho who designed the “Trans-Time One” that was used by the crew to travel back in time. This was done by mostly going deep down the ocean.
The ocean has the potential to save humanity through the creatures that are found in it. Jennifer had the luck to be saved by a dolphin which helped her cross shallow water of the island, Moruroa.
A person never gets lost forever, Jennifer was found by Marty and Alice who decided to help her as she had stayed alone for a long time. She needed to get treatment as she might have been exposed to Plutonium radiation. However, she demanded she was examined at that time but there were no treatments to detect the radiation.
They travelled to every area that surrounded the island of Moruroa but with water surfing and diving, a lot can happen as there are owners to every territory you go to. The crew of Jennifer, Alice, and Marty were attacked by a shark on their trip to Fangataufa. Jennifer was taken to a doctor for radiation treatment and was expected to go every two weeks.
She also had to make peace with her new reality, living in the past (21st century from the thirtieth century) and hence she travelled to Honolulu to go to graduate school for studies in Physics, and she also fell in with Marty.
Her tasks at graduate school were always reminiscent of Zexton’s inventions. Aside from the professor who accepted her PhD topic, she was also worried about her sexuality, bisexual in the century she was now in and for the people of both sexes she was involved with, and she had to tell them.
She told Marty the truth, and he was fine with it. Jennifer never did anything with other women without Marty’s consent. She also could not let the thought that she might have had family members somewhere, so she had gone to Montreal where she met some of her family members.
Meanwhile, Marty got used to the idea of watching intimate moments between two women, and he started liking it which ultimately also got to the point of couples becoming intimate in a single group.
Education-wise, Jennifer was a fighter; she wanted her advisor to graduate her with her PhD but did not as she somehow lacked numerical skills and that disturbed her as she wanted her degree so much. But she did not falter because of that she knew of a renowned professor in Mathematics whom she wanted her dissertation advisor to collaborate with on developing an equation (model) that could be used to answer her hypotheses.
She defended her dissertation in style with answers to all the questions from the committee, both the professors who helped her with the equation and the general audience. She was granted the PhD.
She and Marty got married and it appeared that Jennifer had the same identity as another Jennifer who was born in 1994. This disturbed her mentally and led to depression; her papers also got rejected by most journals as could not focus any longer.
There is a perception that when an individual attains a PhD it ends right there and then call it quit. To Jennifer, education appeared to be a hobby-she went for another PhD in archaeology in Tahiti and travelled with her twin sister Jenny to Sydney Australia to travel back ahead in time to the 27th century from the twentieth century.
In essence, the author tells the story of a woman (named Jennifer Heros) who travelled back in time to relive events and somehow try to save human species from extinction. There are some events she enjoyed as she started feeling young again, but she did not like some because they were only accepted in the thirtieth century (the future century which she left). In my view, the woman wanted to save the world from the deadly virus because they failed to do so initially which she regretted not having done and thus she had to travel back in time to fix it. This reminds me of the TV Series ‘The Flash’ where the main character had to travel back in time to save his mother who was struck by something like lightning. Moreover, it seems to me that she enjoyed her bisexuality in the 21st century more than she did in the future (30th century) because she practised it more openly and wildly, and she believed in solving scientific theories which she did by studying for PhD degrees. What is likeable about the book is that the author used depictions to illustrate the island’s map, albatross, Zodiac and is well-edited. I, therefore, rate the book 4 out of 4 and recommend it to adults particularly the bisexuals.
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30th Century: Escape (General Audience Edition)
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