Michael Tyne

Something momentous is happening in the Japanese city of Osaka...

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An investigation into a nuclear near-accident reveals results so strange that, at first, nobody takes them seriously. But one or two individuals make a connection to something much older…

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At the heart of it is a story which dates back over fifty years to another unique moment: the Woodstock Festival. There, two men - Peter Marriott, the hip British film-maker, and Daniel Firdaus, leader of a secretive Californian cult - saw something happen that no-one else fully understood; something which they could only describe as an evolutionary shift in humanity itself. Both have been pursuing it ever since: Marriott, out of a sense of duty to humanity; Firdaus entirely for his own power.

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In a war that lasted decades, a tiny group of people who had their start at Woodstock – East London gangsters, refugees from the California “scene”, a former KGB spy and a (possibly mad) Glaswegian cameraman known as Raging Dennis - came together around Marriott. They fought against the odds – and against Firdaus and his increasingly powerful organisation - to discover the truth about something which could change the world forever.  Eventually, for most of them, the dream died.

Now it is, once again, a reality.

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In Osaka, two wildly-talented young women - the actual product of the evolutionary shift - have created something miraculous: a way of transmitting it to others. As Masako Kobayashi and Hope Van Doren struggle to comprehend what they have unleashed, humanity in Osaka begins to change before their very eyes: and the world begins to notice.

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There begins a final battle: not just for survival - but for the future of the human race…