Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by Gilion at Rose City Reader. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence of your current read, making sure that you include include the title and author so others know what you're reading.
My Book Beginning this week is from Intervention (How Humanity from the future has changed its own past) by Alan Butler.
Growing up as I did in the 1960's and 1970's, I was introduced to a raft of information that had become extremely popular at that time. The genre was heralded by the arrival of an author called Erich von Daniken." From the first two sentences of the Introduction
"A couple of hours' journey northeast of Beirut, in Lebanon is the beautiful Bekka Valley." The first sentence of Chapter One.
I was immediately intrigued by the concept and requested and got the book from Netgalley. Here is the description from Netgalley:
Description
From Alan Butler, the bestselling author of Who Built the Moon? and
Civilization One, comes a persuasive new theory about humankind’s
origins, evolution and historical turning-points being planned and
directly affected by humans from the future.
Many key events in the history of humankind show evidence of having been
intended by human beings from the future, who took specific actions
that would steer the world in a particular direction. Time travellers –
some of them anonymous, some celebrated in history – have made
alterations to our planetary and global environment (the creation of the
Moon, the extinction of the dinosaurs) that were necessary to allow us
to exist and to develop as an intelligent species. They have also left
us markers that show what steps we need to take to progress further. All
these interventions were placed retroactively within the ‘timeline’ for
future generations, not for those immediately affected.
Key interventions include:
But the most spectacular revelation lies in our future. By looking at
the mathematics underlying many of the inventions, we discover, with
unexpected precision, when our first contact with our future selves will
happen. This will occur within the lifetime of most readers of this
extraordinary book.
7 comments:
This one sounds really exciting! Thanks for sharing...and for visiting my blog.
Intriguing opening, the book sounds very interesting. I'm going to have to check it out. Thanks for sharing!
Here's my Book Beginnings on Fridays =)
It certainly sounds different!!
Not sure this is my type of read, but it does sound interesting!
Happy Reading!
~Kristin @ Always With a Book
Sounds like a great read. Can't wait to meet our future selves, great concept!
This is not the usual type of book that's showcased in Book Beginnings! Is it supposed to be sci-fi or nonfiction? Regardless, it's intriguing.
My Friday post is from ONLY SCANDAL WILL DO.
To me this sounds absolutely bonkers. But for that reason I want to read it, kinda. Thanks for posting! And thank you for visiting my blog today. :)
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