The satirical publication
The Onion recently reported that a team of professors working in the 1970s completely made up the idea of ancient
Greece, an important contributor to the formation of
Western Civilization, to fill in a missing section of the pre-Christian historical record. According to them,
Greece didn't amount to much and the historians created it all up in a flurry of hard work. Here is the link:
http://onion.com/aOUqJD.
A pretty funny and original idea, huh?
But what if a new novel, a modern action & adventure story, with a touch of history, some fantasy and a small dash of
science fiction, offered a slightly different take? What if Gettysburg Passage suggests that Western Civilization is in fact in real danger of dying at birth? What if some of the earliest, prehistorical influencers to Western Civilization, facing total defeat, need to be organized, nurtured and protected by people who are actually living today in the U.S.?
How would that be possible? I guess that's where a bit of the fantasy and scifi comes in. If The Onion can suggest that Greece can be made up, I can top them by having some normal people living right now be given the chance to "ride to the rescue" of an embryonic culture more than
5,000 years ago. And you thought the editors of The Onion were cheeky....
To learn more, go to Amazon.com and check out Gettysburg Passage, a fast paced adventure by John Callahan. Now available for $2.99.
some clever tags: Indo-European,
Greek sculpture, Mesopotamia, Egypt
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