Awakening the Butterfly

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By Martin Schell ’74

Published Dec. 13, 2019

A syfy romance with strong spiritual and economic themes. A multicultual cast of characters guide the visit of an unintentional time traveler. There are several pages describing a flyover of Princeton in 2102 via a kind of hovercraft. Earth is a backwater, struggling to participate in the vast interstellar trading network established by a humanoid alien civilization who are neither monsters nor mentors.

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An inside look up the inside of a building, with four floors and a dinosaur skeleton visible.
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