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The Brave New World

IMPORTANT: I WILL NOT BE CONTINUING THIS SERIAL. SYNOPSIS It is January 2nd, 2035. In New York, leaders of all the world's nations are assembling to agree on a plan to save the dying planet: Earth. Of course it's a lie, because the planet isn't about to die. People will. As it often happens when something starts with a lie, disaster strikes. A mysterious electromagnetic storm destroys the global power grid, and cuts communications. Many people die, some commiting suicide because of the inability to post on Instagram. But as soon as the storm dies down, millions of mysterious, glowing cubes appear all over the globe. The cubes contain tools that will let humans colonize a new planet: a bigger, richer version of Earth. The newly formed Colonial Council, which answers to the United Nations, has only one goal: to ease the crisis on Earth by transfers of goods and resources from the New World. Millions of new colonizers rush to the New World, united by a common purpose: to turn their dreams into reality. Some dream of getting rich by trading New World goods. Some dream of conquest, and building an empire. Some dream of peace, adoration, and love. Some will succeed, and others will fail. But fortune always favors the brave.

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Smelly Business

Samir said goodbye to Sunil a few minutes after he'd finished his cocoa. They'd discussed everything they had to discuss, and he could see there was no refill coming. There was no point in hanging around.

The next item on Samir's agenda for this particular Earth day was seeing Paul Leduc, the supermarket owner. He'd agreed to deliver food, food he'd imported from the New World, to Leduc's store. He'd agreed to deliver so much that it had to be broken into instalments, and the first instalment was due at the beginning of the month.

Samir loaded five kilos of fruit and vegetables into his backpack, and put another five kilos of dried fish on the rear carrier of his bicycle. This was nearly half of all the food in the storeroom; he really couldn't take any more. He wheeled his bicycle down the path leading to his house and onto the lane that led to the main road.