Echo of Tomorrow: Book One by Rob Buckman

Author:Rob Buckman [Buckman, Rob]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Adventure, Military
Amazon: B00R5LEQXE
Publisher: Rob Buckman
Published: 2014-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

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Scott dived back into the work, reviewing ideas, encouraging flagging spirits, suggesting ideas, and coordinating efforts. Week after week, they kept running into roadblocks for lack of basic weapons design, and more than one shouting match erupted. In the end, they brought it to Scott and dumped it on his desk.

"We have got to find some reference to the basic research that went on before they stuck us in the bloody ice box.” Jimmy Duncan complained, waving his arms in the air.

"I don't see how.” Scott answered. "We’ve checked every database, we, or the President could find, and there is nothing."

"I can't believe that they managed to erase every private data base and Libraries in the world, that's impossible!"

"You forget Jimmy, they've had three hundred years to do it. Think of how much history, we accidentally erased in three hundred years. These people did it systematically, and as a national, or I should say, international policy."

"No, I didn't forget, I just don't believe it." He sat, slumping down in the chair in disgust.

"So where do we look?” Scott prompted. "The Libraries of Congress are gone, so has the British Museum Library as far as we know, not that we can go there, it's off limits. Where Lawrence Livermore Lab was is now a big hole in the ground with a lake on top."

"What about Fermi Lab, or the particle accelerator in that place in Europe?"

"Gone!"

"Shit!” Jimmy exclaimed. "There has to be one they missed!"

"Not in three hundred years."

"Unless someone hid it!” Brock commented.

"What?” Three people asked at once.

"Think about it. If you saw the way things were going and thought the information might be valuable in the future, might not you hide it where whoever it was that was destroying the information wouldn't find it? And, what if the very people who were doing the erasing thought it might be valuable in the future, even from a historical point of view?"

"You mean to archeologist in the future digging up a lost city, or something?" It was a thought.

"It might be that the archeologists of this time don't know what they have because that can't decipher it, like the Egyptian writing before the Rosette stone." Scott smiled, now they had started thinking. Holding his hand up, he called for silence and slipped the dialing card with the President's private number into the holo-projector.

"Yes General, what can I do for you?” He asked, accepting the call.

"Sorry to bother you, but can you tell me if you have such people as archeologist now?"

"Why of course." President Westwood pondered Scott’s question for a moment.

"Where would I find them?"

"That's easy, most of our eminent archeologist work out of the institute of historical research in the Capitol, why?" Translated, that probably meant historical erasure.

"I need to ask them a few questions, and have access to any and all data they may have, even classified data. Is there anyone who specializes in modern history, say the last three hundred years or so?" Westwood busied himself for a moment, asking for a word search on his information terminal.

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