Epilogue
2078
Dear Senator Harris,
My name is Evan Vance. I am the twenty-two-year-old grandson of Jack Vance, the only survivor at the epicenter of the quantum plasma pulse on the Olympic Peninsula that wiped out Earth’s electronic grid and its electrical generating capacity. I’m writing to you because you are the foremost leader of the Return To Technology movement sweeping the country as new sources of power are discovered.
I grew up on a remote communal enclave in southeastern Ohio. When she was seventeen, my mother, Jack’s only child, wandered across a country desolated by the great population loss. She connected with my father for what she told me was a glorious six-month romance that resulted in me. Sadly, before I was born he was killed during the chaos still ripping through th
