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    The Afro-Saxon Chronicles
    The Afro-Saxon Chronicles
    The Afro-Saxon Chronicles
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    The Afro-Saxon Chronicles

    By Marsha Prescod

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    Scifi with a twist. Different futures through an African Caribbean prism. Four stories, three from the 1980s,all set in the far future. Satire with humour, politics and an underlying seriousness.
    See how society in a thousand years time might view the 20th and 21st centuries, in the story "3010: A Space Idiocy".
    Learn the history of the Revolution that used Rap music, and James Browns Get on the Good Foot to bring about societal change in "An African History Book"
    Enjoy the cautionary tale of why we shouldn’t take pets for granted, in" Sleeping Dogs".
    Thrill to the cautionary tale of why alien invaders wont have it easy, in "Communication".
    Dive into the world of The Afro-Saxon Chronicles

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarsha Prescod
    Release dateOct 19, 2020
    ISBN9781005877668
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      The Afro-Saxon Chronicles - Marsha Prescod

      THE AFRO-SAXON CHRONICLES

      3010 A Space Idiocy & Other Stories

      Marsha Prescod

      3010 A Space Idiocy & Other Stories Copyright © 2020 by Marsha Prescod. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.

      The moral right of the author has been asserted.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, names, characters, places and incidents, locales, organizations, businesses or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book onscreen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of the Author

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      Interior Formatting by Kimolisa Mings

      The Afro Saxon Chronicles

      Do you want to read SciFi with a different perspective? Can you enjoy humour with a twist?

      Dive into the world of The Afro-Saxon Chronicles

      See how society in a thousand years time might view the 20th and 21st centuries, in the story 3010: A Space Idiocy.

      Learn the history of the Revolution that used Rap music, and James Browns Get on the Good Foot to bring about societal change in An African History Book

      Enjoy the cautionary tale of why we shouldn’t take dogs for granted, in Sleeping Dogs.

      Thrill to the cautionary tale of why alien invaders wont have it easy, in Communication

      Table of Contents

      3010. A Space Idiocy

      Sleeping Dogs

      An African History Book

      Communication

      Other Works

      3010. A Space Idiocy

      There’s no point asking me how I got here, because I really don’ t know. I’m as ignorant as you are, regarding the details. One minute I was walking down the road, in the 20th century; the next minute, I’m walking down the road in the 31st century. I don’t know whether it’s a hallucination (no, I’m not a druggie!), a road accident, a dream, a death, someone else’s fantasy, or what! There were no blinding flashes, no little green men – nothing to give me any kind of explanation or hint as to what happened to me. I’m just here.

      I’ve been here for about, oh, six or seven months now. Not sure of the geography – things have changed a hell of a

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