Jessica Lorenzi Conti Author

   

        Humanity and its future is a recurring topic of science fiction. Whether it is an apocalyptic future directly inspired by biblical stories, the pessimistic vision of writers on the world and humanity, observations related to the concerns and anxieties of the changes that surround us or whether it is a promising and conquering future where the entire universe revolves around the human being in all the splendor of his ambition, his rage to live, to discover and to master everything that crosses his path, we writers always approach this science fiction topic with the ambition to ask questions and answer them at the same time. 

        And of course, our aspirations are always and above all to invite the reader to a philosophical, spiritual and sociological but also scientific reflection. Let's dive if you want into what will be used for this reflection. I have chosen as a setting for the evolution of my characters who will be your guides in this analysis, two eras and more particularly two eras of man. The first, a time in the history of the Earth and of humanity, opened with the industrial revolution in the 18th century and thus succeeding the Holocene, during which the human species became a major geological force governing the state, the functioning and evolution of the planet.

    Without knowing it, we have changed geological eras. We have left the ten thousand years of the Holocene era which, due to its warm and stable temperature, saw the birth of agriculture and industry, after the last great Pleistocene glaciation. And we have entered the Anthropocene, the era of man, this era in which man has become the main geophysical force on the planet, capable of modifying his environment. — (Audrey, “Welcome to a new geological era, the Anthropocene”, in Le Monde, January 14, 2011) 

    The Anthropocene would correspond to the moment when man became the massively determining factor in the geological evolution of the planet. A living species, ours, is breaking the age-old balance in an accelerated fashion, including by threatening its own survival. — (Catherine Portevin, “The Anthropocene”, in Philosophie Magazine, October 5, 2012)

    Popularized by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Paul Crutzen in 1995, the word anthropocene refers to the period that began when human activities left their mark on the entire planet. The Earth, it is understood, has entered a new geological period, marked by the irreversible imprint of humanity on the planet - the Anthropocene, therefore, literally “the age of man”. — (Guillaume Lachenal, “Here lies the anthropocene”, in Liberation, November 13, 2019)

    The second era chosen is the one that follows the first one chronologically. The age of man, the era of man, as we will call it here, has therefore lasted since humanity left its irreversible imprint on the planet. But that era is coming to an end. Not because man disappears, but because man changes, so we are entering what was called The New Era. Ours, meanwhile, the one we know, in which we evolve, the one that broke away from the Holocene, will henceforth be called the old era.

           My new WIP is a science fiction cyberpunk story taking place in the future in a year not revealed on purpose as it invites the reader to guess how many years have passed between today's society and that future society. 

           The main purpose is for the reader to guess that we aren't that far from that new era as that period of time is called by its contemporaneous people. 

            Not to spoil but the main difference between what the world citizens at that time call The New Era and the Ancient Era (Ancient era starting with the first homo genre recognized as human to the first man who was conceived, was born and grew up in a raising farm) is that many things like human life, birth, reproduction, childhood, family, human death, body, health are not untouchable, they are not sacred anymore) So now instead all of these became just some products, items to add in a cart, rent, sell, bargain for. 

              Of course you will find out why society of the new era is so different than society now and what has been causing one to become another, by reading the book but I wanted to write this article to make a point on what exactly is and mean to desacralise things.        

              Of course our modern societies desacralized sex and human relationships, pornography we constantly see everywhere desacralize sex between two people, dating apps desacralise our relationship to the others and marital status, of course divorces desacralised the institution of marriage, and all of those of course occured duting the past 100 years.     Of course being a single parent or surrogacy desacralised birth and maybe all of these things are great as they offer opportunities and freedom to people who would not have had some chances or some opportunities. 

              But let's think about all of this for a moment where do barriers fall? Are there still any? What about when we desacralise a woman, a man or a child's body? What about when we desacralise a woman, a man or a child's life? What about when we desacralise a woman, a man or a child's death? 

                 I soon welcome you to enter the vision of our darkest possible future where no one has barriers anymore where everything is touchable, everything is for sale. 

                    Soon to be published : Man's Eras a cyberpunk novel by Jessica Lorenzi Conti. 

             And hopefully you'll have nightmares, deep thoughts and an opinion about it. 

                             For anyone reading this if you are interested in getting a free manuscript to read before anyone else, just get in touch on Twitter I'll be happy to get your thoughts. 

        I made lesson plans and reading sheets for teachers to download in English, French and Spanish.

For students from 8th to 12th grades : the New Vision book series : a lesson plan and a reading sheet for each of the 10 volumes with topics like inclusion, history, social and cultural inequalities, philosophy and of course literature and basic reading comprehension sheets. 

For children from 4th to 8th grades : my Young adult books :  a lesson plan and a reading sheet for each of the books with topics like inclusion, history, social and cultural inequalities, philosophy and of course literature and basic reading comprehension sheets. 

For children ages 3 to 9 : my children book series "Learn and play with the Bumbuzz" you can download free material like games and coloring pages. 

  You can all download everything right here>

      After Halloween with Bumbuzzboon, you'll get the chance to meet Bumbuzzix and of course discover Bumbuzzland with "Learn and play with the Bumbuzz- Welcome to Bumbuzzland".

For up-to-date information about the children book series "Learn and play with the Bumbuzz" you can go onto www.bumbuzzland.com 

Here are the series last books :

                Because New Vision book series needed a guide, because you still may wonder what is this weird

title order or what actually is the message behind these 10 volumes of hard science fiction / dystopian alternate history ?

Just because you did not have enough of it or maybe you still have some questions that are left unanswered?

Available in English, Spanish and French, New Vision Bible will help you answering any of your questions or guide you before, during and after your read.  

               Maybe you've been wondering why New Vision volumes go backward. 

Here is the explanation.  First of all the volume where everything started needed to be called 

"10 plagues" and as the last volume needed to be called "1 end" it was obvious it was better to do a backward order, but don't worry things evolve in chronological order, you do not read backward!

I also wanted to title backward the volumes to add an element of stress, like a timer 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 and supposedly after 1 comes zero, nothingness. 

It was important for me that readers feel the emergency in the series because it is again a reference on how fast we must act, the emergency there is to take care of our planet and our humanity in need of solutions and relief to all of this violence, pollution, crime, inequalities, unfairness...

So when you read the New Vision book series think that once you are done, there are many things out there needing you to act, maybe change, so that tomorrow looks like the tomorrow you'd like to live in...

I don't advise to read the series in chronological order I advise to read it in the publishing order :

PUBLISHING ORDER (READ THE SERIES IN THAT ORDER)

7 parallels : volume 1 read it first.

6 intrusions butterfly defect : volume 2 : read it just right after 7 parallels

5 women : volume 3 : read it after 6 intrusions butterfly defect

10 plagues : Prequel, this is the first volume of the prequel trilogy read it after 5 women.

9 destinies : Prequel, this is the second volume of the prequel trilogy, read it after 10 plagues

8 great minds : Prequel, this is the third volume of the prequel trilogy : read it after 9 destinies

4 enemies :  1st volume of the sequel trilogy, in chronological order happens just right after 5 women. Read it after the prequel trilogy

3 currencies : 2nd volume of the sequel trilogy read it after 4 enemies

2 choices : last volume of the sequel trilogy  read it after 3 currrencies 

1 end : Last volume read it after all the others!! 

 CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER : (DO NOT READ IN THAT ORDER!!)

PREQUEL TRILOGY : 

                           10 plagues is in chronological order the first volume where everything starts and where you understand why New Vision is going to be created. 

                           9 destinies is in chronological order the second volume where you meet the people who will created New Vision and where they actually create New Vision

                          8 great minds is in chronological order the third volume where New Vision is already established and launches the "8 great minds" project. 

FIRST TRILOGY PUBLISHED :

                         7 parallels is in chronological order the fourth volume where New Vision is already established and launches the " 7 parallels" project. 

                         6 intrusions butterfly defect is in chronological order the fifth volume where New Vision is already established and launches the "6 intrusions butterfly defect" project. 

                         5 women  is in chronological order the sixth volume where New Vision launches the " 5 women"  project. 

SEQUEL TRILOGY : (Where publisshing order and Chronological order are finally identical)

                         4 enemies is in chronological order the seventh and is also the 7th volume published where New Vision needs to fight against four groups of enemies trying to prevent New Vision from launching the "7 parallels project", in this book we will come back during the 7 parallels project which may finally....have never taken place... Will New Vision succeed and win the fight against enemies trying to prevent them to save the world? 

                         3 currencies is in chronological order and publishing order the eighth volume where I can absolutely not tell you what is going on otherwise I would spoil the end of 4 enemies. 

                         2 choices is in chronological order and publishing order the ninth volume where I can not tell you what is going on. 

                         1 end   is in chronological order and publishing order the tenth volume where we come to the series conclusion, this volume will be the most philosophical as we will go over the questions that arose during the series and try to link them to the biggest questions of our existence on this planet and in this universe and you will why not find some answers? Or rather some more questions!...

Many other science fiction sub-genrse take over along the 10 volumes. Here is some spoilers about how this all blends magnificently together...

Alternate history : This is definitely the science fiction subgenre of "7 parallels", New Vision book series 1st volume.

Of course without forgetting time travel and parallel universes 

Utopia, time travel and parallel universes are the three main sub-genres of New Vision book series 2nd volume "6 intrusions butterfly defect". 

The further we get into the saga, the more parallel universes are created, resulting from the butterfly effects New Vision missions have created.

in New Vision volume 3  "5 women", the two main subgenres are time travel and parallel universes and our heroines will have quite some hard time to deal with it! Our multiverse then grows again at the end of this volume...

From Volume 3 "5 women" we jump into 1st prequel volume from the prequel trilogy "10 plagues" I sincerely have no idea about how to classify 10 plagues, the main idea I had here was to install the apocalyptic vision I have about our present world and analyze where it comes from,... I will not qualify this as alternate history because it is more likely history than any kind of fiction for the main part, you will either hate or love 10 plagues which is sincerely completely different than all the other volumes. It is about how it all started how all of our sufferings got shaped over the history of our civilizations, it is why we are in the shit we are today and why we still have time to act for our future, let's say I qualify this volume of apocalyptic if I give up on human kind and epic heroic if I still trust human kind, you will make your own opinion about this volume.

"9 destinies" which is New Vision volume 5 or if you prefer the prequel volume 2 is part of near future science fiction sub-genre, set from 2030 to 2080 you will find out how New Vision really came to life, it is rebirth, the beginning of the reconstruction of a destructed world...

"2 choices" is definitely a multiverse story but something new appears... space exploration and new questions...

              New Vision book series is about inspiring about what matters and rising tolerance through looking back at our history and mistakes in the past. In the ideal world the Freemason organization New Vision is trying to build, the African continent has its place as equal to all the others. The World New Vision builds through 7 parallels to 4 enemies is a world where not only the African continent gets to have its share, black people history is one of the most present protagonists within several New Vision volumes. Black history leaders and America's civil rights icons are part of important plots within several volumes of the book series.

New Vision book series has one and only goal and message : having the reader look through history's fails and learn about solutions for the future. 

New Vision's aim is to get the reader thinking he can do more than read, he can do more than think, he can act today at the present moment for tomorrow. Yes, no one is actually able to get back to the past and annihilate events and mistakes but anyone has the ability and the right if not the obligation to look ahead and know how to act for that better future to take place without need of going back and change things, because we can all change things today. 

The concept of time travel by mechanical means was popularized in H. G. Wells' 1895 story, The Time Machine.  Since that time travel fiction, many have been created and the means used to travel through time are not always mechanical, here is a few examples I chose to go through and of course I also talk about the means of travel used to travel through time and space in New Vision book series. 

In many stories of the genre the character who travels through time can also travel through space, finding himself into a different location than the one he left, this is the case for the TARDIS  (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space) in Doctor Who TV series as the TARDIS not only travels through time but also space but it is not the case in Back to the Future where the DeLorean arrives exactly where it left. 

     In New Vision book series the means used to travel through time is a Lorentz wormhole and the individual transfer platform which generates the passage is used by the time traveler. In New Vision book series each platform corresponds to a location and it is thanks to the programmation of a spatio-temporal transfer key that the traveler is set to travel according to the geolocation and chronolocation data programmed on his key. A traveler can't get to a location where a physical transfer platform has not been placed. But for the chronolocation data, the physical platform can have been placed in any year, the platform will exist in all other realities and those platforms from platform to platform is the passage. 

     In many other stories of the genre where no mechanical means are involved we find just a passage to another dimension appearing in our reality, this is the case for 11.22.63 from Stephen King 

       Through all the examples we can find out there we also find psychological abilities like in the movie "The butterfly effect" where the main character has the psychological ability to transport himself into another dimension. We can also find that model in the TV series Heroes where Hiro Nakamura has the power to travel through space and time only thanks to his mental abilities. 

      Of course if we want to take many more examples where we are getting away from New Vision book series hard science fiction or even from science fiction we can also find comedies where we travel through time with the most creative techniques like in the movie The click where it is a remote control who sets the current time, a phone booth in Bill & Ted movies, a photobooth, a hot tub, even a fridge was initially planned in the very first script of Back to the Future. In the franchise, the DeLorean time machine is made out of a retrofitted DMC DeLorean car with a ‘flux capacitor’ needing 1.21 gigawatts of power and a speed of 88 miles per hour to capacitate time travel. However, in the original script, written by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, the DeLorean was not found inside of a car, rather a fridge. The flux capacitator – the key component for time travel – was absent from the original script. Instead, the time machine was a “power converter” devised from a laser device and kept inside a refrigerator, which was loaded into a truck before being driven into a nuclear blast, which would initiate time travel.

The rather complicated process, which would involve Marty climbing into the fridge in order to survive the nuclear blast and transport to another place in time, was simplified by scrapping this idea and placing the device in the now-iconic DeLorean car. The image of Marty stepping out of the spaceship-like doors of the DeLorean fit the film’s sci-fi genre way better than the household image of a fridge. 

If you like time travel and not through a fridge, a hot tub or a phonebooth you will like New Vision book series, start reading volume 1 "7 parallels" today, it is available in ebooks and paerback in English and French, soon in Spanish on Amazon>

      What better than a dystopia to make the reader, the spectator understanding the chaos of the situation? What better than a dystopia to involve the reader, the spectator and immerse him completely into the situation of destruction, violence and ruins of civilization, nil of society where he needs to decipher the codes of a solution?

    And what better than time travel to get the solution, to investigate and to decipher the codes of the problem to its origins? Or maybe like in the Terminator franchise or the Tomorrow war to fix the problem?

New Vision book series investigates, invites the reader to decipher the codes and takes action in the past to act on the dystopian future that is soon to be ours...

     The Terminator franchise, Edge of tomorrow, The Tomorrow War and Terry Gilliam's 12 monkeys are  movies you could describe as Time travel movies as Time travel is an important part of the plot. But it is not the only common point about these three movies as all are set in a dystopia. All of them treat the topic of the end of humanity and investigate and fight what caused its lost. 

     Of course New Vision book series has the exact same common thread : Humanity and the planet at stake and the tool used to investigate and fight that thread is Time Travel. 

    If in Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys time travel is mainly used to investigate on the dystopian situation the world is currently living in 2035, in The tomorrow war, Terminator and Edge of tomorrow the solution to fight the threat is found in time travel. 

The Terminator franchise uses time travel as a mean to fight the scourge at its origins and counts on the Butterfly effects to fix the chaotic, dystopian future this is exactly like New Vision book series as in 7 parallels, it is he origins of each event who created our present chaotic dystopian world that the 7 parallels project targets. 

The Tomorrow war recruits fighters in the past to go fight in the dystopian future in order to fix that dystopian future and Edge of Tomorrow has its fighters use time travel as a weapon as they use it to learn from their mistakes and act differently on the exact same action priorly failed. 

New Vision book series does each of the actions that are done in those 5 movies : New Vision like 12 monkeys investigates on a solution by traveling in the past and , like Terminator, they find a solution by interfering in the past. They count on the Butterfly effects of their actions in the past in order to establish the future they want to see, the solutioned future. New Vision like Edge of Tomorrow envisions not to fail because possibilities of trying to make things right are infinite thanks to time travel used as a tool. And finally New Vision like The tomorrow war recruits his brilliant members who will be brainstorming on the 7 parallels project and who will be the judges of the butterfly effects in our splendid past civilization and ont in the fallen one of course. 

                                             If you are a fan of one of these movies, you will love New Vision book series, so start reading New Vision book series with volume 1 : "New Vision - 7 parallels". 

When we treat about time travel we can of course have no certitudes about anything we make up in fiction! Everything could be right or wong but even though that's the case, science fiction writers have over time developed some codes. Just like in any fictional topic, time travel has its dos and donts its favorite paths and plots and today in this article I will talk about particles annihilation.

You will find out what they mean by that, economists John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx and Adam Smith are New Vision members and are among 7 parallels project brainstormers and judges. You will enjoy their ideas about the strategy to adopt in the past at a certain moment of our history to make disappear capitalist exploitation to the benefit of an economy where the work value is the main capital gain for a world where workers are not hands, tools, servants or slaves but the capital. For a world where everyone has equally its place, for a world where everyone has value and benefits of a fair system who ends social and economics inequalities. 

Find out about Karl Marx, Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes and historian Marcus Rediker's strategy to annihilate capitalist exploitation from humanity's history by reading New Vision 1st volume, 

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