The Fall of Man
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In my dreams, I see it happen from beginning to end – the fall of man. Night after night, a blinding flash shatters the sanctuary of my sleep, scorching skin through the silhouetted bones of fingers flung in front of my face. A few ponderous seconds later, the mother of all booms rolls in sonic waves across the heavens, as if Atlas had struck his huge gong inside my head. Stars are flung in every direction and scatter like burning pool balls into dark pockets of the universe.
When my sight is restored, the violent drama has subsided. In its place is nothing - a calm, still vacuum. With a twinkle, a lone star reveals itself at the centre of the void like a diamond hung in the coal-black emptiness. Around it orbits a second speck of light - a planet. In a perfectly choreographed routine practiced night after night on natural history channels everywhere, hot gases cool; the planet’s crust coalesces and great bodies of water gather in the depressions.
Snapshot: a bubble rises to the surface of this murky, prehistoric soup from somewhere deep within. For a second it bobs on the undulating surface of the gloop, an oily sheen refracting rainbows of colour across its taut, perfectly geometric skin. Then it pops without a sound. Life is born.
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For many years, environmental catastrophe has been discounted as myth or propaganda. However, the science is now proven. Tides are rising and storms are brewing. Soon, the oil must run out...
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Ed Green is a practicing architect, and is currently living in Cardiff, Wales. He has a PhD from the Welsh School of Architecture, where he also tutors. For some time, he has been preoccupied by the question: what are the implications of our daily actions on our future as a society? The Fall of Man is Ed’s first novel. It attempts to address the question in an exciting and thought provoking way, rather than a dry academic one (he tried that way first, so he knows!) Visit visions-of-britain.com for more of Ed’s ideas, inspirations and resources...