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Jeanette Gibson
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The Last Word Cemetery
The Last Word Cemetery is a mind-bending mash-up of tragic love and apocalyptic mayhem…in which the cemetery itself is responsible for both causing the chaos and extending the ray of hope at the end of the world. Tobias McCreedy, the lead character in Part One, is a wealthy humanitarian whose world is shattered when his wife dies only a few years into their marriage. A chance conversation inspires Tobias to build a magnificent necropolis in which the dead can have the last word. No longer, Tobias resolves, will lifetimes of experience be obliterated by time. But what will be the mode of expression? Tobias turns to his young scientist friend, Lobsang Liu, to create memorial holograms of the deceased that may be viewed at each grave. Lobsang more than succeeds at his task, and the Last Word Cemetery endures for centuries. Then comes a long period marked by wars and natural calamities, erasing most of the historical and archaeological record. In Part Two, twelve-thousand years later, we see a world civilization based on mostly unwitting misinterpretations of the scant remnants of the past. A team of archaeologists discovers the vault of the Last Word Cemetery. Most of the holograms stored within it are still viewable, and their content blows to hell all the concepts upon which “Second-World” society is based. We follow March Archaeologist-Engineer 68 and Credence Archaeologist 741 as they come to grips with recalibrating reality. The archaeologists decide to make the holograms known to the public, and pandemonium breaks out. But this time, as far as planet Earth is concerned, there are no more punches left on the ticket.
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