Noah and the Fireflood
By John Walters
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After the Earth's atmosphere ignites and burns and the surface of the Earth is destroyed, with the help of an enigmatic genius called the Time Tiger a young woman travels backward in time in a desperate attempt to save the Earth's fauna from extinction.
John Walters
John Walters recently returned to the United States after thirty-five years abroad. He lives in Seattle, Washington. He attended the 1973 Clarion West science fiction writing workshop and is a member of Science Fiction Writers of America. He writes mainstream fiction, science fiction and fantasy, and memoirs of his wanderings around the world.
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Noah and the Fireflood - John Walters
Noah and the Fireflood
By
John Walters
Published by Astaria Books at Smashwords
Copyright 2012 by John Walters
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Noah and the Fireflood
This much is known by all intelligent species, being one of the great tragedies of all time: Earth’s atmosphere ignited and burned; Earth became a fireball, then a glowing heap of ash and molten rock.
From worlds all over the galaxy Earth’s descendants and sympathetic aliens came to mourn. By the time they had arrived and set up encampments on the Moon, most of Earth’s surface had cooled. It had melted like an ancient wax candle. Not a microbe remained alive.
A lesser-known event, dwarfed by Earth’s demise, was the disappearance of Dalia Lee.
Her father was an ambassador from one of the outer worlds and she had come with his delegation as his private secretary. She was slim, dark-skinned, with large brown eyes and wavy black hair that, when not tied or braided and looped, fell to the small of her back. She loved animals and had pets from many different worlds, but her dream had always been to travel to Earth to pick up DNA cultures of the fauna, and construct a vast zoo-park on her home world. When she realized the impossibility of the fulfillment of her vision (for there were replicates of very few Earth species off-planet) she became despondent, almost comatose. But after several