2041 Sanctuary (Let There Be Light)
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Authors: Robert Storey
2041 SANCTUARY
2: Let There Be Light
(Book Two, Part Two of Ancient Origins)
Robert Storey
By Robert Storey
2040: Revelations
(Book One of
Ancient Origins
)
2041: Sanctuary
Part 1: Dark Descent
(Book Two, Part One of
Ancient Origins
)
2041: Sanctuary
Part 2: Let There Be Light
(Book Two, Part Two of
Ancient Origins
)
2041: Sanctuary
Part 3: Genesis
(Book Two, Part Three of
Ancient Origins
)
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Forthcoming titles
by Robert Storey
2042: Apocalypse
(Book Three of
Ancient Origins
)
First published in Great Britain in 2015
by SANCTURIAN PUBLISHING
Copyright © Robert Storey 2015
Robert Storey has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.
1
st
Edition
All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance
to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
eBook design by Robert Storey
Cover design by Robert Storey
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.
Sancturian Publishing
CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDUM
The Ancient Origins series of books run sequentially in time, year on year. Within each volume, however, a multitude of characters, located in various parts of the world, may experience events simultaneously despite their narrative being separated by a significant number of chapters. In certain instances, some character timelines may be interrupted in order for other characters’ tales to be told, for them only to resume at a later stage in the book despite minimal time passing in their life. If the reader is prepared for such deferrals in narrative it will serve to let the book’s structure and chapters flow as intended.
Dedication
2041 Sanctuary: Let There Be Light is dedicated with love to the human race, of which we are all a part.
May we find our way home.
Acknowledgements
A massive thank you as ever to my parents for helping me stay the course and for their invaluable editing and insight into what works and what doesn’t. Also, another big thank you to my copy editor, Julie Lewthwaite, who continues to keep me on the straight and narrow.
Furthermore, thank you to everyone who has given me their support and encouragement, which includes anyone who’s been kind enough to contact me or leave a review for my books online or otherwise. It’s your kind words and feedback that has kept me motivated through difficult times, both professionally and personally.
Table of Contents
AUTHOR NOTE
Please be aware
Let There Be Light
was never intended to end where it does, as I originally planned to conclude
2041 Sanctuary
(which began in
Dark Descent
) with a single volume. However, as I wrote it became clear my characters had other ideas and the completed book, with appendices, was one thousand, three hundred and fifty pages long. Due to paperback constraints, and trying to keep weight and thickness down while preserving font size, it was decided, after much deliberation, to split the book in two.
I was loath to go down this route for a number of reasons, most prevalent being I didn't want to interrupt the flow of the read and secondly, and perhaps more importantly, I didn't want it to appear like a money-making exercise. However, unlike the paperbacks, I was at least able to half the price of the e-books, due to the minimal production costs, when compared to their hard copy counterparts.
Therefore the story that begins in
Let There Be Light
concludes in
Genesis
, and
2041 Sanctuary
comprises three books (or parts) and they are as follows:
2041 Sanctuary (1: Dark Descent)
2041 Sanctuary (2: Let There Be Light)
2041 Sanctuary (3: Genesis)
For more detail on my deliberations behind this decision, please visit the website:
www.Sancturian.com
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In the blackest pits, or emptiest of voids, there is always a guiding light; it’s just up to us to find it.
– Robert Storey
FACT:
On the 8
th
January 2011 an asteroid with the potential to impact Earth in 2040 was discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey. This near-Earth object was given the designation, 2011 AG5.
A year later, in 2012, the world’s international media warned this same asteroid might impact our planet in the year predicted. This warning was subsequently retracted soon after by the same sources, citing a false alarm.
Whether these media channels were privy to the whole truth is open to conjecture, however, true or not, our planet is under constant threat of annihilation and we still have no tried and tested means by which to protect ourselves from this celestial threat.
The governments of the world’s most powerful nations have secret contingencies for global disasters. These plans are kept from the public for a reason.
Prologue
Out of the earth came the fires of hell, the breath of death licking at the heels of all living creatures. Predator or prey, it mattered not; consumption of flesh and bone was sacrificed to the maw of white hot heat and flame. Rock melted and the air itself burned as the devastation that was the fallout from the arrival of the asteroid, 2011 AG5, streaked out from the impact epicentre faster than a supersonic jet. As predicted, trains of tsunamis sprang into being to arrow into the Indian Ocean, their titanic power obliterating everything and anything in their path.