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The Transition

by Fred W. Holmes

190 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #04-2756; ISBN 1-4120-4948-2; US$21.95, C$21.95, EUR14.99, £11.33

The Transition starts with Amaranth, a child saved from the Irish potato famine in 1847, and ends with Luna, her descendant, a UN SpaceForce officer on the moon in 2037.

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About the Book The Transition focuses on a family which leaves Ireland during the potato famine of 1845-9 and sails to Canada. They clear land for farms near Owen Sound, Ontario, establishing a small liberal-socialist community. Over the next one hundred years the project slowly fades and most of the land is sold. But in the 1970s, Jamie Ramsey, a descendant of the founder, starts another group with the same ideals. The New Harmony group uses capitalist methods to set up bases around the world. New Harmony's human and financial resources help strengthen the United Nations, which after 2017 becomes a benign and effective world government. Ramsey's granddaughter Luna, the first child born in a space station, campaigns for Oprah Winfrey's Reformed Democrat/New Harmony Party coalition which beats the America First Republicans decisively in 2016. By 2039 the UN army is the only army, and war has ceased as religious and nationalist egotism lessens. No-one is starving. Poverty and disease are being overcome as the population stabalizes at nine billion. Fair Trade laws bring global standards of care for the environment, uniform personal and corporate taxation, and much improved labour conditions. The exploration of space proceeds apace.

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About the Author Fred Holmes is a middle-aged person of left-wing views who has lived in the Toronto area most of his life. His life is so ordinary as to stagger description, except that he has a fantasy about peace and love ruling the world. He has tried to put his secular humanist vision into a form which might interest similar people.

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