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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s
imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or
locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2012 by Austin Dragon
All rights reserved.
Published by Well-Tailored Books, California
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in
any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written
permission of the publisher.
Thy Kingdom Fall / After Eden Series: Book One
ISBN 978-0-9887235-0-4 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-9887235-1-1 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-0-9887235-2-8 (ebook)
Book cover design by Luna Oliveira
Printed in the United States of America
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A special thank-you to my editor Stephanie Mitchell who, to use a Doylean phrase, may not be
luminous but is a conductor of light, and whose one simple question elevated the book from
the stratosphere into space; Luna Oliveira, my book cover designer and all around digital Jedi,
because people do judge a book by its cover; and to all my beta readers through the process,
especially Lawrence Phillips, Erica Diamond, and Veronica Olofsson.
Special shout out to Mom and Dad—no good son would forget such a thing.
And a final thanks to Him. Inexplicable talent in anyone—myself aside—is truly an amazing
testament. What will the lightning strike of inspiration bring next?
“After Eden, Thy Kingdom Fall. All Kingdoms Fall, New Kingdoms Rise.”
World War III. It was inevitably going to be one of religion, this great, grim, evil war of
humans, machines, and other things in the shadows that have never existed before.
Unfortunately, neither the cause nor the outcome was within our perception, though the former
should have been. No one could ever have imagined that it would not just be the third of the
world wars, as that is unremarkable, but the explosion of the first global war of the
Technological Age, the Tek Age—a hell we had never seen before.
Net-Dictionary: ‘Wolf 359’
1. A red dwarf star located in the Leo constellation, approximately 7.8 light-years from Earth,
making it one of the stars nearest to our solar system.
2. A fictional space battle in the Star Trek Universe between the United Federation of Planets
and the Borg Collective in the year 2367.
3. The opening battle of World War III in New York City on September 11, 2125. Over sixty
percent of United States of America Atlantic Oceanic Battle Fleet was destroyed by the Supreme
Islamic Caliphate Battle Group on the first day.
Other terms:
Pagan: (American usage) a non-believer of god or gods; one that doesn’t believe in religion,
often negative to, hostile to or hateful of religion.
Jew-Christian: (American usage) a religious person, other than Muslim.
Table of Contents A BRAVE TEK WORLD ............................................................................................................. 1
Wolf 359 ..................................................................................................................................... 2
Tek World! ................................................................................................................................ 8
The Devil I Know .................................................................................................................... 16
The Lords of Earth ................................................................................................................. 21
Preach, Baby, Preach .............................................................................................................. 36
The Butterfly Demonicus Effect ............................................................................................ 62
Stillborn ................................................................................................................................... 89
I Could Kiss Arafat on the Mouth ....................................................................................... 106
Weird People ......................................................................................................................... 118
The Math That Lost America .............................................................................................. 138
Scare(y) Decisis...................................................................................................................... 144
Trog-Land .............................................................................................................................. 166
The Man Made Out of String .............................................................................................. 188
THE PROTESTANT ORDER................................................................................................. 230
It’s Always Sunny in Hell ..................................................................................................... 231
Faith World! .......................................................................................................................... 259
Good Blood ............................................................................................................................ 292
A “Free,” “Safe,” and “Civilized” Society .......................................................................... 299
Locking the Gates ................................................................................................................. 317
The Last Christians............................................................................................................... 349
Resistance Rising ................................................................................................................... 373
Guess Who’s Coming to Passover Seder Dinner ............................................................... 402
Objects Are Closer Than They Appear .............................................................................. 417
Teeth ....................................................................................................................................... 447
The Magi ................................................................................................................................ 452
Slow Boil ................................................................................................................................ 463
The Continuum ..................................................................................................................... 480
Austin Dragon / 2
Wolf 359
“A date which will live in infamy.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
of America
America would have three dates of infamy. One of which was December 7, 1941, when the
Imperial Navy of the Empire of Japan attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii. Four US Navy battleships were sunk, four others damaged; eight other sea-craft were
sunk or destroyed; 188 aircraft were destroyed; and 2,402 Americans were killed, with another
1,282 wounded.
Another had been 127 years earlier, in the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland. On August 24, 1814, British forces invaded and occupied Washington DC,
burning public buildings including the White House and the US Capitol, which were both mostly
destroyed. It was the only time a foreign nation captured and occupied the nation’s capital.
The third was September 11, 2001, known universally as “9/11,” when nineteen Muslim
terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners and crashed two into the World Trade Center’s
Twin Towers and one into the Pentagon. The other was headed for the White House or the US
Capitol building before brave passengers seized the plane and it crashed in the fields of
Pennsylvania. Over three thousand people were killed that day, and the 110-story Twin Towers
collapsed and were destroyed.
Top of the World Restaurant, The Three Towers, New York City
8:02 a.m., 11 September, 2125
After Eden: Thy Kingdom Fall / 3
The New York City police commissioner gazes out the massive, slightly blue-tinted bow
windows. He stands in the same spot as he always does at this time and day of the year. The
Three Towers that Kanien built.
The breakfast meeting of senior New York brass, male and female, some in office-suits,
others in dress blues, has ended. They mill around talking to one another, drinking their
beverages, eating more food, and checking their mobile devices for messages.
President Cree Kanien had all the right credentials: long-time party activist and loyalist; the
right “religion”: Pagan, with the requisite number of public anti-religious comments over his
career; the right universities: Harvard and Yale; the right family: partner (hetero), two sons
(unverified), two dogs and a cat; mayor of Buffalo; governor of New York; vice president and
then president. There was nothing in his background that suggested he would go Jew-Christian
crazy one day while in office, but it was a unique craziness. He said he awoke one day and heard
a voice which told him that he had to build it “so they will come and your army can destroy
them.” Days later, he directed federal troops to seize the site of the One World Trade Center and
its surrounding areas and by executive order commissioned its total demolishment and the
subsequent construction of the new Three Towers.
He would be only the third American president impeached by the US House of
Representatives in America’s 349-year history. But unlike Andrew Johnson in 1868 and William
Clinton in 1999, who were acquitted by the US Senate, he was convicted. Everyone still wrongly
says Richard Nixon was impeached over Watergate (most people have no clue as to what
Watergate was). Nixon was the only other president who would have been impeached and
convicted, but he resigned the office in 1974—the only American president ever to do so.
Austin Dragon / 4
President Kanien had the sole distinction of being the only American president to be
impeached, convicted, and removed from office by the legislative branch, for gross abuse of
power over the Three Towers. But the ex-president was a marketing genius. The nation’s power
elite hated the buildings, but Kanien made the people of New York love them. And when New
Yorkers call something theirs, whether a person, place or thing, heaven help the person who
messes with it. No one, not even another president, would be removing the Three Towers to
rebuild the Old World Trade Center—One World Trade Center? What’s that?
At the opening ceremony for the building, Kanien stood shoulder-to-shoulder with his invited
attendees as he gave his remarks. These special guests were descendants of the victims of the
original 9/11 event. Kanien had some thirty-thousand present. He revealed in his speech that he
too was a descendant of a victim—though Homeland Security personal background files still
refute his claim to this day. It was reported that Kanien’s list of the “Children of the Three
Towers,” as he had named his special guests, had over a million names; after all, nearly sixty
countries aside from America lost people in the attack, Old Britain, the Dominican Republic, and
Japan being the countries with the next-highest losses in human lives. No one would touch these
buildings; they were the new international symbol of 22nd
-century New York.
All a moot point now; the Three Towers have been standing for fifty-three years.
“Maybe Kanien wasn’t so crazy after all,” he whispers to himself as he stares off into the
sky. From his vantage point inside the restaurant, 170 stories up, he can see almost eye-level into
the clouds, the very curvature of the planet, and at night it seems to him as if one could literally
step out into space itself. The view of the Atlantic Ocean is breathtaking; seeming so close that
he could stretch out his arm and touch its blue surface.
After Eden: Thy Kingdom Fall / 5
He smiles. To think that the man-made-global-warming “Flat-Earthers” over a century ago
said that massive flood barriers would need to be built all along the East Coast, including New
York, because of flooding from melting polar ice caps and rising global sea levels. Now the
experts are back to “we’re heading for the next Ice Age” again.
As far as New Yorkers and most Americans are concerned, the Three Towers are the tallest
buildings in the world. The actual distinction goes to towers within Caliphate and CHIN
countries, but they only built taller buildings to spite America.
The opinion of the American security and intelligence community, however, is that the
buildings are a security nightmare. More money is expended to protect these three buildings than
even the White House, and every year on this date, New York Homeland personnel wake up in a
cold sweat wondering if this is the year the Muslims will “try for it”—some attack reminiscent of
9/11. Or maybe even the CHINs.
The police commissioner’s predecessor had actually resigned his post because he couldn’t
handle the stress anymore. The commissioner has already had one stomach transplant, from one
of the best body farms, because he developed chronic ulcers. He pops a pill in his mouth—his
daily medicine for life to ensure he doesn’t develop any problems with his new stomach.
Nine-Eleven Holiday ceremonies will take up most of his day, and despite the elevated threat
level, everyone will pretend to have a good time.
“Commissioner, Kanien’s limo caravan is here. Fifth Avenue.” The voice of his chief of staff
sounds in both his ears through his flesh-colored ear-set device.
He touches the reply button on his wrist-band. “Keep him back until I get there.”
“Yes, Commissioner.” The line disconnects.
Austin Dragon / 6
This is truly intolerable. Kanien is an ex-president of the United States of America who still
draws a federal retirement stipend and has a Secret Service detail, but has been designated as a
potential terrorist by the current president. Technically, Kanien should not even be allowed to
enter New York City Metro, but everyone from the local beat cop to the New York Homeland
Defense and Intelligence Agency regional director ignores the terrorist threat directive on him.
Kanien is an insane old man, not a terrorist, and, more significantly, he’s one of the biggest
private donors to the New York sports culture community—the Yankees, the Giants, the Nicks.
What one sports writer called the “real three towers” in New York. It’s the kind of charity that
buys a lot of good will, loyalty, and friends in this town.
The commissioner shakes his head. Most likely he’ll have to fly to the Capitol again to talk
about it. But then, the president is an old man too. If this were even twenty years ago, no one,
himself included, would ever have ignored a presidential directive. However, the president
strangely isn’t pushing the issue at all. It’s as if he is allowing Kanien to be protected for some
reason. Everyone expects the president to be gone after the next election; his life-long reason for
political existence and the focus of political hatred—the Jew-Christians—are gone. Nothing in
the world has been the same.
“Commissioner! The east side!” The voice yells so loud in his ears that the commissioner
leaps straight up in the air. He bolts from his spot and runs to the east-side observation-window-
wall of the restaurant, pushing tables, chairs, and people out of his way. The room is in a panic as
police officers follow him.
For an American elite society that so hates religion, it is curious how many of the words and
phrases are just that—religious. He is at the east side: “My God!”
After Eden: Thy Kingdom Fall / 7
This is not possible! Nothing can breach our Atlantic Seaboard Defense!
Over the Atlantic Ocean, they can see them in the distance. The sky is filled with approaching
sky-ships, an air armada of what seem to be ancient 767s.
People yell out in shock, run for the elevators, or faint and fall to the floor. The commissioner
grabs his chest at his heart as his face contorts from a sharp pain.
Thirty-seven years earlier…