In a world where three-fourths of the world's population is decimated, an ancient, unstoppable entity finds himself wandering the wastelands. When he has to decide the fate of a lonely child, he is forced to come to grips with feelings he had forgotten he could have. Follow the story, of how man tries to rebuild civilization after a terrible mishap, and how he also finds out he was never at the top of the food chain. All the while the Author is taunting you with an interesting game. Will you play? When I was a kid we used to sit around late at night and play a game. You know the game I'm talking about. The one where one person starts a story and the next person carries it on, so on and so forth. The game I invite you to play is very similar. In these pages you'll find a complete and entertaining story. No cliffhanger endings. The game comes after you read. The characters are in a world where there are so many possibilities, so many options for them to take. I want you to tell me what happens after. After you read the story, and care about the characters, I want you to respond back and tell me what you want to know next. I want to hear what my fellow avid readers want to see happen. That doesn't mean that I want you readers to write the book. No, that's my job and my burden. What I want is to play a game of I start the story and you tell me which path to take from there. And hey, if you don't like the sound of the game that's fine. Remember that this book is a story all on its own. Either way, have fun.
Albert Barnes was an American theologian, born at Rome, New York, on December 1, 1798. He graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, in 1820, and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1823. Barnes was ordained as a Presbyterian minister by the presbytery of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in 1825, and was the pastor successively of the Presbyterian Church in Morristown, New Jersey (1825-1830), and of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia (1830-1867).
He was an eloquent preacher, but his reputation rests chiefly on his expository works, which are said to have had a larger circulation both in Europe and America than any others of their class.
Of the well-known Notes on the New Testament, it is said that more than a million volumes had been issued by 1870. The Notes on Job, the Psalms, Isaiah and Daniel found scarcely less acceptance. Displaying no original critical power, their chief merit lies in the fact that they bring in a popular (but not always accurate) form the results of the criticism of others within the reach of general readers. Barnes was the author of several other works of a practical and devotional kind, including Scriptural Views of Slavery (1846) and The Way of Salvation (1863). A collection of his Theological Works was published in Philadelphia in 1875.
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