Thor's Saga (ePub)

Gunnery Sergeant John Thordarson, nicknamed Thor after the Nordic God, is a warrior without equal who comes from a long line of warriors. In 1979, he serves with the top secret Astromarines, whose duty is to protect the spy satellites that watch over the Soviet Union.

During a space battle to protect Skylab, Thor finds himself blown into deep space, where he eventually finds the death that he has cheated so often and his body enters a comet-like orbit.

Three hundred years into the future, Thor finds himself brought back to Earth and to life by a future generation who calls upon his skills as a warrior again.

The future world that greets Thor seems at once to be everything he has fought for as well as everything he has fought against.

His rescuers, as he discovers, are immortal, and society as he knew it has transformed completely. Everybody enjoys regenerative health and beauty beyond compare. Only total dismemberment can bring death.

Religion has been rendered obsolete in that the biggest selling point of religion is the promise of an afterlife. The future generation has made heaven on Earth.

Immortality means there are no children, no more passing on of DNA. As the population is freed from the trials and tribulations of childrearing, many of society's norms are smashed.

Thor also finds that there are no possessions, whose primary and now obsolete purpose was to advertise to a potential mate that one was able to provide a safe, healthy, and stabile environment for offspring.

But why did this splinter group of the future generation bring back Thor into this utopia? Over the course of 300 years of societal bliss they have grown to hate their society, a society without change, its people leading self-centered lives without challenge or purpose.

They want Thor to teach them the art of war since they believe that it is the biggest engine of progress that history has seen.

They believe that Thor is the perfect man to teach them. But has Thor changed his mind about war as per his last message to his family or will he help the splinter group "advance" from the carefree lifestyle he so despised in his time?