The Civilization Loop: The End is the Beginning

The Civilization Loop: The End is the Beginning is a science fiction novel by Jason R. Thrift. The book was published by Publish America. The first edition went to print on September 10, 2007. In February, 2008 the novel became available at the Amazon Kindle bookstore in electronic format. The book is 338 pages in length, containing 15 chapters. A hardcover edition was released in August, 2009.
Summary
The Civilization Loop: The End is the Beginning focuses on the perils of time travel and the ability of the human spirit to overcome all obstacles. The story begins in 1977 with Dr. Ben Peterson activating his Temporal Displacement Assimilator (T.D.A.) on the island of Crossbow Islet. The TDA begins to feedback on itself, causing a nuclear detonation that both Dr. Peterson's son, Bobby, and wife, Geri, narrowly escape. Twenty years later two researchers discover a tomb beneath the Sphinx on the Giza Plateau. They are immediately murdered by a man calling himself Donovan Smith, upon the discovery of a cryogenically frozen man bearing a strong resemblance to Dr. Robert Peterson, Ben Peterson's son. The story picks up with Bobby in 2007 when he and a team of scientists at Area 51 begin making preparations for the first time travel mission. This time the mission is a success and Bobby and his team feel they can now overcome a secret prophecy that has been passed down for generations through societies and governments worldwide. The secret is that on May 5, 2012, the world will come to an end. The reasons for how the world will end are largely unknown, but time travel plays a key factor. By 2011, growing ever impatient at Bobby and his team's lack of deciphering what might cause the End Times senario, the government assigns a special envoy to Area 51 in the person of Willis October. However, as October attempts to run over Bobby and his team, he also has his own agenda to ensure the world will end in 2012. When the team pursues a time jump to the KT extinction in early 2012, a "time shift" results that causes the asteroid that should have extinguished the dinosaurs to miss the Earth altogether. The team, believing they had witnessed a near-miss, journey back to their present and a paradox unfolds. After encountering an earth shattering time wave, the team deduces that a newly formed cloud of iridium will engulf the Earth on May 5, 2012, exterminating all life on the planet. The team is then forced to travel back in time to 10,000 B.C. where they devise a plan to save the future and inadvertently start the civilization of Atlantis, ultimately propagating the society we know today. Among other mythical tales strewn throughout the book, connections to the paradox include Stonehenge, the Roswell Incident, crop circles, the Mayan Calendar, and philosophical underpinnings related to Christianity and other religious beliefs.

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