[ Sunday, July 18, 2004 ]
Book Six: Future Legend
Chapter One: Teenage Wildlife
Gabe in a world much like Earth A.D. (After Disaster); thrown together with a mutant who can turn to steel, a talking dog and a girl named Flower, who looks to him like Daisy. She’s mute, the dog says, and Gabe wonders what she could do if she ever spoke. His first view of the steel man (who’s wearing a spacesuit to keep in the radiation his body emits) makes Gabe think he’s brought Neil or Buzz through time with him, and he calls their names. They are on a mission to stop the Tiger King from aligning himself with Gabrielle, who has a fellow time traveler in custody. They free the traveler, who takes Gabe with him on his time-spanning chair. Flower kisses Gabe goodbye, and the mutant warns him not to go fission.
Chapter Two: Time, Law, and Changes
The Traveler takes Gabe with him through time to the home of his people, who live in a paradise like new gods. The chair is powered by a mysterious force inthe heart of this New Eden, and the Traveler thinks itmight be able to heal Gabriel’s disease. But Gabrielle has tracked him even here and sends a flock of doppelgangers like demonic paratroopers to attack. The traveler sends him away, this time, using a wormhole-like tube.
Chapter Three: A Better Future
The world that’s coming is already here, and it wants to sell Gabriel to the population as a holo-TV show. Gabe finds himself placed in incredible stuntsreminiscent of his prior adventures, forced to fight for his life like a one-man army corps. The OmniChron is re-energized by an orbiting satellite that beams energy to the planet, and Gabriel fluxes away.
Interlude: Tin Machine
A standalone tale of a steam-era robot, a WorkingClass Hero. Another of the artifacts in the Museum ofCrux. It reveals what happened to the city after Father activated the OmniChron for the first time and everyone disappeared.
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