{"id":1625,"date":"2009-04-08T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:30:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:30:55","slug":"save-humanity-now-tomorrow-code-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"Save Humanity Now: The Tomorrow Code by Brian Falkner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_AS3Nr1ChgcU\/Sdvt6cxS_aI\/AAAAAAAABwU\/QlDauXXKcyM\/s1600-h\/TomorrowCode.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 212px; height: 320px;\" src=\"https:\/\/writingya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/TomorrowCode.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322108973079526818\" \/><\/a>Tane and Rebecca are best friends, both in their second year of high school in Auckland, New Zealand. They&#8217;ve known each other practically forever, and can talk about anything and everything, from the most mundane of everyday topics to something as esoteric as time travel. Tane&#8217;s sort of the quiet, creative one, while Rebecca is a math and computer whiz; so when Tane mentions the idea of transmitting data through time instead of people, Rebecca immediately starts thinking about how that might be possible, if you used a big enough satellite dish and were able to harness the energy of the universe&#8217;s gamma-ray bursts. <\/p>\n<p>When Rebecca gets hold of some of that raw gamma-ray data and writes a computer program to scan it for patterns, they get a real shock: somebody in the future seems to be sending them coded messages, and if they aren&#8217;t able to interpret the messages properly, all of humanity could be in danger. How do they know the messages are from the future? The first message they receive is a series of numbers. Lotto numbers. <\/p>\n<p>WINNING Lotto numbers. <\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the only way they can get hold of the Lotto money without making it a huge public deal is to confide in Tane&#8217;s older brother Fatboy, a motorcycle-riding rebel of dubious reliability. Fatboy cashes the ticket and promises to help them out, but then he and Rebecca sort of become an item&#8230;something that makes Tane just a bit irritated. The relationship tension mounts as they find out more and more about a top-secret, dangerous experiment called the Chimera Project. <\/p>\n<p>The stakes just keep getting higher in this suspenseful page-turner. Author Brian Falkner has created truly deep, interesting, textured characters that are easy to care about, and I enjoyed reading a contemporary sci-fi novel set in New Zealand, too. Even though I had to suspend my disbelief about a couple of things, I willingly did so and was not disappointed. It&#8217;s got everything\u2014lab experiments gone awry, deadly fog, coded messages, yellow submarines, and a nice twist towards the end. A great one for fans of dystopian novels and suspenseful adventures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/aff\/readersrant7?product=9780375843648\" target=_blank>Buy <i>The Tomorrow Code<\/i> from an independent bookstore near you!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tane and Rebecca are best friends, both in their second year of high school in Auckland, New Zealand. They&#8217;ve known each other practically forever,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2,12,74,5,6],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-af","tag-fantasy-sci-fi","tag-guy-appeal","tag-reviews","tag-suspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5558,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/5558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}