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Memory Span: Utopia 2130
What if Mother Nature thought we humans were out of control and decided to reset population growth? How would it be if you somehow woke up 100 years after the event and didn’t find anything like what you see in the movies? What if violence and mayhem hadn’t come to rule, and that what you found was all peaceful and nice?
New world village Ascot 2130 A.D.
Total world 1.2 million
World crime absolute zero
Current female 99.8%
Post viral birth normal
New world village Ascot 2130 A.D.
Total world 1.2 million
World crime absolute zero
Current female 99.8%
Post viral birth normal
178 pages, Paperback
Published February 26, 2022
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G.S. Bailey
24 books22 followersGuy Stuart Bailey is an Australian farmer and author born 1963 in Mornington Victoria, raised Liverpool New South Wales, currently residing in Dalby Queensland. He likes to play golf, can dance ballroom, watches a lot of rugby league (Manly Sea Eagles fan), doesn’t mind a good action flick on the big screen, and he can easily lose half a night watching classic rock music clips on You Tube.
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August 5, 2016
This post-apocalyptic vision of the future was a breath of fresh air! Author G.S. Bailey channels the better aspects of human nature in his unique time-travel romance, offering up the possibility of a future which is, well, great. Word population has shrunk dramatically, and humankind has come together to figure it out. Plus, there is the interesting development that people are suddenly waking up in bodies that are not their own...
Altogether enjoyable, with sweet romance blended in, and plenty to think about. A much-needed shot of positivity!
Altogether enjoyable, with sweet romance blended in, and plenty to think about. A much-needed shot of positivity!
July 10, 2016
I was very impressed with all the story that was picked into this read! You really get a big world building epic story, in a smaller book. The characters were well defined and I felt emotionally connected to Rachel and Adam from the beginning. You take an amazing trip with them through time and around the world! Not too be missed! I love the romance and the reasons for the holding back the characters engage in. What an interesting world. I Highly recommend it!
August 3, 2016
The Menangle Virus, or to give the book its full title, Memory Span: The Menangle Virus, by G.S. Bailey, is a fairly short, but quite interesting science fiction/fantasy centred on time travel. Or is it? Well, I'll let the reader decide the answer to that. At just 67 pages on Kindle, the Menangle Virus is a quick, easy read; one of those books you can pick up at the start of a trip and be finished it by the end, or perhaps just read in an afternoon, on a wet day. Regardless, it was certainly a book I enjoyed.
Set in Sydney, the premise the book explored quite intrigued me. Adam was travelling home from work on the bus one day, when he drifted off to sleep, only to awaken in the centre of Sydney (a city completely abandoned and left to rot) some hundred and thirty odd years in the future. The kicker here was that Adam wasn't Adam? Or was he? Adam, it seemed had inhabited the body of a man from that year, Cooper (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, style).
What followed was an exploration of what might have happened. Civilisation as Adam knew it had been destroyed by a virus that swept the world some twenty years after Adam's bus ride. The Menangle Virus had originated in the small town of Menangle, near Sydney and had quickly spread around the world, effectively sterilising 99% of all woman. Humanity, it seemed was either doomed or about to be severely culled.
I won't give away any more of the plot, except to say I did enjoy many of the ideas the author came up with. The book was fun and easy to read, with a nice little romance thrown in for good measure.
I liked the author's conversational style of writing and although this is the first book from Bailey I've read, it may not be the last. A good solid four-stars from this reviewer.
Set in Sydney, the premise the book explored quite intrigued me. Adam was travelling home from work on the bus one day, when he drifted off to sleep, only to awaken in the centre of Sydney (a city completely abandoned and left to rot) some hundred and thirty odd years in the future. The kicker here was that Adam wasn't Adam? Or was he? Adam, it seemed had inhabited the body of a man from that year, Cooper (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, style).
What followed was an exploration of what might have happened. Civilisation as Adam knew it had been destroyed by a virus that swept the world some twenty years after Adam's bus ride. The Menangle Virus had originated in the small town of Menangle, near Sydney and had quickly spread around the world, effectively sterilising 99% of all woman. Humanity, it seemed was either doomed or about to be severely culled.
I won't give away any more of the plot, except to say I did enjoy many of the ideas the author came up with. The book was fun and easy to read, with a nice little romance thrown in for good measure.
I liked the author's conversational style of writing and although this is the first book from Bailey I've read, it may not be the last. A good solid four-stars from this reviewer.
July 20, 2016
Utopia. What an idea. But it became more than just an idea when the Menangle Virus wiped out most of civilization, and society was able to start over and correct past mistakes. This is the kind of society Adam O' Malley woke up to. Yup, woke up to. Just a few minutes before, he was in another time, 100 years in the future, and in another body. How did this happen? That's what the story is about. A fun and entertaining read. Thought provoking.
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