A Love Beyond Time, in a World on a Timer

The setting for the futuristic novel A Love Beyond Time, in a World on a Timer takes place about 30 years after global societal collapse was first caused by the ruling apparatuses. Then a series of cataclysmic natural events brought on by human ecological destruction brings on the true apocalypse. Main characters include Noblé, a psychotic, mentally ill man with a heart of gold; Liliana, a naïve young woman experiencing the desolation of the planet for the first time; Marcos, the leader of a powerful tribe of nomads seeking revenge against the oligarchs who destroyed their planet; and Malcolm, a socialist-communist intellectual who managed to create an ideal, prosperous society in the middle of a wasteland. He had to save the world to redeem his sins. But the world had already ended. So he lurched along through his pointless corporeal existence, awaiting an overdue reunion with his perished family. Bereft of purpose in a man-made apocalypse, Noblé worked in the most suicidal profession, one known to expedite a longed-for reunion with his wife and daughter. They called it couriering, the simple act of escorting people, usually climate refugees escaping famine and drought, from one place to another. Desperate to leverage favor with the fates, he eschewed all material attachments and compensation for his deeds. As he dawdled over the years, playing at living while his mind was lost in the afterlife, a creeping and overwhelming feeling of failure to fulfill his destiny with his family took hold. The contagion of this intractable depression drove him toward suicide. On his way to die, he happens upon a benign, unremarkable young woman, who unknowingly holds the key to saving a once thought to be unstoppable global warming feedback loop. She possesses the one thing humanity needs to repent for its ancestors' ecocide, and more important to Noblé, the one thing he needs to atone to get back to his family. His mind is mired in the afterlife with his loved ones, and the black hole pull of such a longing has him losing his earthly sanity more every minute. But fate, it seems, is not finished with him yet. About the Author: Michael "Mac" Centuori grew up homeless in Phoenix, Arizona, and in Auburn, a small town in Washington State. He now lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he works in a mental health clinic and is also a professional translator. "The principal thing that inspired me to write this book was the compulsion to tell the truth about the history of humankind without fear of being marginalized or ostracized by society. (I have a history background and 20 years of study into it.) The history most Westerners learn is a whitewashed mythology propagated by the racist ruling elite that have held power in all Western empires over at least the last five centuries. This book is a medium for me to tell some of the truth and take the mask off of the evil people who rule us."