Beyond

Death is not what you expected.

De: Dale Justice, Adam Koehler

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In 1901, Nikola Tesla proved there is energy in every object in the universe: the air, a rock, a tree, or a living being. Now, over a hundred years later and with much more technology at man’s disposal, science has achieved the unthinkable: radiant energy for all captured from thin air. No need to burn coal, drill for oil, or fracture the atom for power. The atmosphere is now energized, free power broadcast for all through radiant energy receivers and oscillators. Social upheaval exploded across the world as massive industries are now useless. This was anticipated by the powers that be. But there is another unintended consequence one no one could anticipate. Every religion on Earth has an afterlife belief. Humans, from prehistoric times through today believe the spirit lives on after death with some stream of consciousness continuing after the physical body passes. In folklore, a ghost is the soul or spirit of the dead that can appear to the living A 2009 Pew Research Center study revealed 18% of Americans claim to have seen a ghost. When science energized the atmosphere, the spirits of the dead that have always been among us reanimated. The eighty-two percent of Americans who have never seen a ghost are about to. Now, an intrepid group of academics, detectives, ghost hunters, and military are assembled to try and find answers: General Marshall, the Pentagon’s head of Operation Bright Light which developed the Tesla technology, Dr. Eric Graf, Dean of Metaphysics and Psychology at Stanford University, Graf’s team: Jake Sweitzer, formerly an Army Lieutenant assigned to Operation Bright Light but dismissed from the service because he saw too much, his lover, Celeste Hunter, daughter of a Navajo mother and Scottish software engineer dedicated to researching the spiritual and metaphysical world, Jean-Paul Duvalier, a New Orleans Police Detective, and Voodoo priest and Frank Capezzi, a New Jersey-based ghost hunter with a smarmy TV show. Opposing them are Intelligence service operatives and their superiors intent on controlling the technology and leveraging reanimated spirits as the ultimate intelligence-gathering tools. It is a battle of good versus evil, the living versus the dead, and how to save the souls of mankind from eternal purgatory.

AI not ready to read books

Having an AI read definitely took away from the story. There were cadence and pronunciation issues. I enjoyed the story though. Would have been better with a human reader.