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Straight to You
by David Moody



This book is a work of fiction. The characters and situations in this story are imaginary. No resemblance
is intended between these characters and any real persons, either living or dead.



Condition of Use

This book is made available subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be
lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the author’s prior consent in any form of binding or
cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being
imposed on the subsequent purchaser.




Copyright David Moody 2003

First published electronically by David Moody in 2002




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Prologue


At a quarter past one on the morning of Tuesday, October the 2nd, our sun began to die. Like the inside
of a body being slowly weakened and devoured by a cancer, and unseen by anyone and anything
watching, the star began to writhe and to react within itself producing lethal levels of energy and radiation
which it spewed out into the space surrounding. All around the rest of the universe, nothing seemed to
have changed - the brilliant yellow mass continued to burn brightly and to warm the planets in orbit
around it where life continued unabated and oblivious to the star's inaudible dying screams.
Eventually, within fifty hours of the sun's first internal reaction, a change worked its way steadily
through the vacuum which was noticed and which was, surprisingly, welcomed by the population of the
earth - it began to get warmer. As the people on the planet's surface talked of mild winters and of Indian
summers, the temperature of the air that they breathed rose steadily until, by Monday the 15th, most
areas were a good five degrees warmer than their record books and experts said that they should be.
It was not the first time that such things had happened there and, for once, rather than complain, most
people in England chose to relax and to make the most of their mini-heatwave. Steven Johnson.