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Felicity Harley
3 min readApr 1, 2020

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Inanna the bio-engineered human who is a main character in my series

I’m writing a series called Until This Last.

The title Unto This Last is taken from an essay and book on economy by John Ruskin, first published between August and December 1860. The book greatly influenced the nonviolent activist Mohandas Ghandi.

The first book was published in 2017 by Double Dragon Publishing available on Amazon. https://theburningyears.squarespace.com

I recommend you read it — well researched and believable!

I am watching this pandemic unfold and working on Book 3 in the series with my editor. I first wrote the quote below from this book over a year ago. As a science fiction writer I’m always hypothesizing about the future — even I have to say this passage caught me off guard when I read it today.

Gabriel has moved North, as he discussed he would with Sophia a few months ago, to Alaska and to a community established there on land located just above the Beiring Straights. It is an old community and had come into being after another highly artificially bio-engineered, communicable influenza virus had spread like wildfire around the world in 2045. This virus was like the Spanish flu that affected 500 million people across the world. However unlike that flu which resulted in the death of 50 to 100 million (three to five percent of the world’s population) this pandemic wiped out close to six billion people (80 percent of the world’s population) many

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Felicity Harley
Felicity Harley

Written by Felicity Harley

writer. student of the human condition & psyche. grounded by family, garden and good wine.

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