The Evo

Evo is a science fiction novel, but it is also far more than just that. It is a thinking person's science fiction story as well as a teaching experience. The single truth of nature is that everything evolves or dies away if the niche that nature has provided for it fills without its evolving beyond that niche. In some cases, different evolutionary trends come together, and a revolution occurs as they leap forward together and something totally new emerges. That is what this book is about. The storyline is based upon an actual scientific prediction that the human species is about to undergo its next step in evolution. That step will coincide with the coming scientific revolution because science has just about run its course with the brain structure and the mind that the human species has been given thus far to work with. And yet this is still not enough because we are still undergoing a technological and economic

revolution based on the computer as well as a cultural evolution based on overpopulation of our home planet and advances in transportation, and communication and biological technologies.

The story takes place about thirty years in the future when all these advances have come to a collective tipping point. Humans live in a dystopian society run by a single world gov, although there are still many factions representing old national and cultural groups within the world gov. Quite simply, society is quite near the breaking point as the gov social experiment is failing. Something must happen, something very chaotic, before a new level of consciousness can be reached since this step in evolution will be consciousness driven. Something terrible does happen in the form of an invasion of sorts. Most humans have migrated to the megalopolises and mega-cities since all farming and food production is done at the corporation and factory levels. Small farms and medium sized cities have died throughout the world, but a small and persistent minority of people still lives independently in towns and

smaller cities. They are only connected to the rest of the world through computer wifi since the only land lines for communication are run by the gov and mil. These people represent only a few percent of the total population, but that small percentage belies the fact that these people have not succumbed to the new cultural and societal experiments of the world government. These people are not only independent but consciously more evolved than most of their brethren in the mega-population centers where life is regimented and strictly controlled by the world gov. When the crisis hits and world war becomes a reality the smaller cities and towns are the last to go, but a small group of children and young people set out across a mountain range in the Rockies when their charismatic leader is killed. They only seek to get as far away from the unknown enemy as possible and lick their wounds but learn that getting away and surviving do not go together as they discover who the real enemy is. They then accept a destiny over which they seem to have no control and choose to head across the mountains to the nearest population center only to find that they have been followed into the mountains and their destination is on the verge of falling to the enemy. So, they choose to fight for their existence, the existence of humanity and the existence of all life on the earth. Their trip through the mountains is actually a spiritual and conscious journey from being to becoming.