Born on this date in 1667 was
Jonathan Swift, the satirist who wrote Gulliver's Travels. Here are ten quotes:
- Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
- May you live all the days of your life.
- When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
- We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
- Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
- A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
- Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
- There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
- Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
- I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
New!
Jack Ward, President of Innovia, owes his life twice over to the enigmatic superhero, dubbed Power Blaster by the press. No-one knows who Power Blaster is or where he comes from - and he wants it to stay that way.
Scientist Desi Troyes has developed a nuclear bomb to counter the ever present threat of an asteroid hitting the planet. When Ward signs the order giving the go ahead for a nuclear test on the remote Bird Island, he has no inkling of Troyes' real agenda, and that he has signed the death warrants of millions of people.
Although the island should have been evacuated, there are people still there: some from the distant continent of Classica; protesters opposed to the bomb test; and Innovians who will not, or cannot, use their communication devices.
Power Blaster knows he must stop the bomb from hitting the island. He also knows it may be the last thing he ever does.
Meanwhile in Innovia, Ward and his staff gather to watch the broadcast of the test. Nobody, not even Troyes himself, has any idea what is about to happen.
Part One of The Raiders Trilogy.
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