Before 24 Billion and Counting

24 Billion and Counting - But before. Prologue

In 1995 and for some years after, Chris Williamson wrote an account of his meeting with Lewis Ferrand in 1994. Lewis lived in 2145, and had been projected into Chris' present by unbelievable mental stress while on a mission to Mars.

The pair were genetically identical which gave them hitherto unforeseen powers of time and distance travel to seek help from their genetic pairs when in extremes of danger.

Chris wrote his account, and eventually when an elderly man put onto Wattpad, a writer's website, a truncated version of the account in 2013, in the hope that the story would filter through time to avert the gigantic scam perpetrated on earth's ordinary populace which had funded the Mars expedition and concealed the true objective of the project.

The account didn't survive that far into the future because Wattpad did not have sufficient influence. But other forces were at work.

In 2050 a publisher from New Zealand, Charles Berisford, with the same genetic make up as Chris and Lewis, subconsciously and then obsessively followed the genesis of the long ago written account by Chris, initially through Chris' niece Alicia.

His quest is described herein.

But how did he or she get these words to you in 2016?

There could be another writer but he or she will never reveal themselves, for the future, as it approaches 2145 is too dangerous.