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PAUL COLLINS PRESENTS: "PRESCIENCE RENDEZVOUS (09)"

Etreasures is reintroducing an updated, improved, and rewritten Paul Collins book titled Prescience Rendezvous. This science fiction paperback follows the adventures of Conrad Bernstein, a CEO of an AIDS drug manufacturer who in the year 2000 finalizes the purchase of an artificial intelligence company, called Cali Al. He tours the firm and falls victim to an industrial accident. They cryogenically freeze him and he inadvertently wakes up in the year 2049.

In the future, he encounters an Eastern mystic, Profel Yogananda, who acts as his unwanted mentor. Through the sage, the CEO learns the World Trade Centre blew up and a terrorist group smuggled nuclear weapons into the USA and Europe, causing a nuclear holocaust.

Bernstein also learns the AIDS and Avian Flue merged into a compound virus, causing great loss of life. In this future, rumours abound that the USA was destroyed by an asteroid and America is now considered a collection of islands. He even sees the first hand experience of global warming and the erratic weather patterns that go with it.

He also discovers that advances in artificial intelligence and Biotechnology have advanced to the stage where the living not only can visit the dead, but bring them back to life! This enables Bernstein to meet "mutated AI clones" versions of some celebrities and loved ones.

In this new era, Bernstein's first wife, Stella, acts as his love interest. The hero escapes this place and goes back to change the future. The mystic's predictions come true and the CEO becomes victim to the mystic's final prophecy – Prescience Rendezvous.

Prescience Rendezvous is relevant to day because it takes a hard look at the possible outcomes of today's political climate and at issues such as the environment, communications, arts, the very basis of our belief systems, and science. It gives a fragment of the future of artificial intelligence and what advancements made in science could mean for a future society. Prescience Rendezvous, where science fiction and religious superstitions collide.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Paul Collins is a freelance commercial director born and based in Toronto, Ontario Canada. In 2002, he directed a documentary about youth violence called Just Talk. Its world premier was at the Final Cut Short Film Screenings DJ & VJ Sets in the city of Brighton in the fall of 2003. Collins has written Prescience Rendezvous (09 reprint), King without an Empire (05), and Mystery of Everyman's way (07). An updated, improved, and rewritten , Prescience Rendezvous, is now being republished and hopefully will be available some time in 09.