Part thrilling sci-fi adventure, part historical fiction, Earth’s Harmony is an endlessly imaginative tale from the creative mind of debut author Geoffrey Currens. In the near future, perhaps tomorrow, humanity receives a message from deep space in an alien language—a distress call, along with a set of blueprints. Two generations later, Earth is growing increasingly barren; animals are becoming scarce, and lakes are drying up. Nonetheless, as the distress called warned, alien attackers arrive at Earth seeking the one resource remaining worth harvesting: human slaves. Due in no small part to the efforts of pilot Byron “Cowboy” Carruthers and his ace gunner, Jim, the alien attack is fought off, but one ship manages to escape through a vortex into the past, where the alien could potentially take over the Earth and bring about a horrific future. Cowboy and Jim must pursue the alien through the vortex aboard the result of the blueprints received in the distress call so long ago—a telepathic ship they name “Mother.” Cowboy and Jim thus end up in the Devil’s Lake area of North Dakota in 1889, where awaiting them is the harsh prairie winter, an Indigenous man named Dreamwalker whose knowledge and collection of animals may prove pivotal to their mission, and a romance that will test Cowboy’s resolve to not make any ripples in time. Can they stop the alien—and their own actions—from destroying Earth’s chance at a future?
Historically, prolonged campaigns have been frequently lost or won because of the greater fitness of one of the combatant armies. In the twentieth century, infection was still a major problem, leading to withdrawal from Gallipoli, and the near defeat of the Allies due to malaria early in the Second World War’s Pacific campaign. Malaria emerged again as a major problem in the Vietnam War. The Australian Army Medical Corps, founded in 1901, learned from past medical experience. However, errors leading to significant morbidity did occur mainly in relation to malaria. These errors included lack of instruction of doctors sent to New Guinea with the Australian Force in the Great War, inadequate prophylactic measures against malaria in New Guinea early in World War Two, failure to perceive the threat of emerging resistant strains of malaria in the 1960s, and military commanders not fully implementing the recommendations of their medical advisers. Many Australian campaigns have taken place in tropical locations; a substantial amount of scientific work to prevent and manage tropical diseases has therefore been conducted by the Army Medical Corps’ medical researchers—particularly in the Land Headquarters Medical Research Unit and the Army Malaria Institute. Their work extends well beyond the military, greatly improving health outcomes throughout the world. This book recognises the efforts of both.
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