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Lightspeed
to Babylon
By: J.Y. Jones
Publisher: Book Locker
Ebook $8.95
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Hardcover with dust jacket $31.95
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Have you ever wondered what would
happen to the world if radical animal rights groups
were given everything they wanted? Can’t happen,
you say? There is increasing evidence that it can indeed
happen, and that, in fact, Biblical prophecy indicates
that it very well may happen!
Lightspeed to Babylon is an end-times novel and
a science fiction tale, but it is distinctly different
from any other. Conflict between man’s science
and the God of the Bible is the overarching theme, and
this permeates the plot. The principle character is
Buck Morgan, a boy who grows up on a futuristic Kansas
farm in the middle of the twenty-first century, when
science, progress, and productivity are at a zenith.
Despite early childhood trauma caused by the death of
his mother in a wild animal attack, Buck Morgan excels
academically, attends West Point, becomes a renowned
astronaut and test pilot, and ultimately becomes the
first man to approach closely to light speed (some 75
years in the future). Despite his personal fame and
astounding scientific advancement by mankind, his world
is one where morality, integrity, and aspirations of
high achievement are slowly eroding away. While he is
away in space on mankind's first mission to another
star, 90 years of earth time passes while Buck Morgan
experiences a time lapse of only nine years, a phenomenon
that results from a well-known quirk in relativity physics.
He leaves behind a world of exemplary stewardship of
natural resources, and a world where science is the
reigning god. It is projected during the first half
of the book (before the long space journey begins) that
both the animal rights movement and evangelical Christianity
have been mostly discredited in public life. What Buck
Morgan encounters on his return from space is a complete
and unexpected victory by a resurrected animal rights
movement. There is intense conflict between the hero
and a ruling new world order, a love story from out
of the past, a world unexpectedly at war, a daring rescue.
There are numerous other action chapters.
Woven into the fabric of the book are several important
elements. Christians and Jews are still present and prominent,
but their influence has ebbed severely since the twentieth
century. The animal rights movement is likewise but a
remnant in the first half of the book, but it revives
with a vengeance in the last part. Another feature is
how a takeover of the world by the animal rights movement
in latter times meshes well with prophecies from the Book
of Revelation, particularly as regards the predicted antichrist.
There are also some scenarios portrayed by which advanced
scientific progress, particularly in space, provides fulfillment
of certain end-times prophecies. During Buck Morgan’s
absence from Earth, regular flashes to the traveling spaceman
occur, and his progressive, optimistic thinking provides
a distinct contrast to what is actually occurring back
on his home planet. Because of the confusing nature of
the time dilation phenomenon mentioned above, each chapter
opens by stating the date it begins.
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