Dear Star Brothers & Star Sisters,

An email was recently sent to me that spoke of Swiss UFO abductee Billy Meier having predicted in the 1980s that the U.S. would suffer two terrible civil wars, and then break into five different territories, with sectarian fanatics taking a "dictatorial role."

Interestingly, this scenario is echoed in the 2007 science-fiction novel "The Big God Network" by J.C. McGowan. Here is a description:

"THE SETTING: Twenty years from now, the United States has fragmented into liberal Pacifica (the West Coast), theocratic New America (the heartland), and other new nations. Against this contentious political backdrop, Baba Ed, the leader of a wealthy UFO cult, seeks contact with extraterrestrial civilizations via the Channel, a breakthrough communications interface with a high “AIQ” that renders the most secure system vulnerable, and threatens the new balance of power. A dystopic New America ruled by evangelicals hopes to bring Pacifica back into the fold, and the Channel may offer the means to subdue the “secular” region. Or to protect it, if the book’s hero Franz Sampaio is successful in his quest."

In the novel, the post-American landscape has formed after the Abortion Wars and the New Crusades. "New America" is Orwellian and dictatorial, while Pacifica is democratic, liberal and rather idyllic. There are also several other new nations.

You can find out more here:
The Big God Network (MySpace page)

As the stars will have it,
Sally Simkin
Andromeda Station