New Martian Chronicles - Fiction

Five hundred years after the Great Pandemic, the coronavirus was captured and definitively eliminated, Humanity set course for the stars.

As a symbol of the New Humanity, the one that survived the three-quarters of fatalities caused by the Great Pandemic and other natural disasters of various kinds and nature, which spread like the mythical biblical plagues, medieval cathedrals were chosen, since these they had always represented the connection between heaven and earth, between man and divinity.

Since the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral had been partially destroyed by a terrifying fire that occurred a year before the Great Pandemic, the Advisory Council of Survivors set its sights on another cathedral, no less relevant than this one, which until then it had been the symbol of old Spain: the cathedral of Santa María de Burgos.

The chosen place, next to the Canals of Mars, symbol of the defeated Martian civilization, disappeared when the Earth was still young, was the same one that fifty years before had occupied a replica of the Usher mansion, built by an eccentric group of millionaires, romantic and fervent admirers of the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

Under this ancient symbol, in whose structure the concept of God was collected, answered fifteen hundred years earlier by Bernardo, abbot of Claraval - beauty, balance, proportion, weight, measure, measure and harmony - Mars became the ideal Sanctuary from the that the human race would have to initiate the final jump to the stars.

A new era was beginning, then, leaving behind the indiscriminate and obsolete use of rockets and fossil fuels, he had learned to use Carlos Castaneda's reverie techniques for his interstellar voyages.

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