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    Mister Bluesky
    Mister Bluesky
    Mister Bluesky
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    Mister Bluesky

    By Guy Lane

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    Professor Timothy Bluesky’s ground-breaking research into a Grand Unifying Theory of Life & Earth is a last-ditch effort to save the world’s children from climate change. He is to deliver an important keynote address, dedicate to his little granddaughter, Dorothy. But, at the last moment, the Federal Government cancels his speech and replaces it with a thinly-veiled promotion for fossil fuels. Shattered and broken by the system, unable to continue his mission, what will Bluesky become?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGuy Lane
    Release dateOct 9, 2018
    ISBN9780463533826
    Mister Bluesky
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    Guy Lane

    Guy Lane is an environmental scientist, author and entrepreneur based in southeast Queensland, Australia. He is founder of Vita Sapien and author of Lifewise Philosophy.guylane.comvitasapien.org

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      Book preview

      Mister Bluesky - Guy Lane

      Mister Bluesky

      Version 2.0

      by Guy Lane

      Part 1 -

      Mister Bluesky

      There once was a man called Bluesky

      Crushed by power he didn’t die

      Planet in-synergy

      Charged-up with energy

      He took the fight to the bad guys

      Chapter 1 - New Energy Policy

      The Conference Organizer is too scared to break the news to Professor Bluesky, so he sends one of his assistants, instead.

      Make sure you get his name right, he tells the young woman called Trudy. "It’s not pronounced Blue Sky, it’s Beluski."

      Trudy finds the Professor standing in the hallway of the conference centre. He is a handsome, sixty-year old man with a bald head and glasses. A divorcee, he has only one mission in life, to save the world’s children from climate change.

      Professor Bluesky’s suit jacket covers a blue and white vertically striped shirt. He has the polished look of a successful academic. He’s plump, well-groomed, and accustomed to the good life. As the keynote speaker at an international event, he is in his natural habitat, surrounded by thousands of delegates who will all soon hear that he speaks as eloquently as he looks.

      Today, however, Professor Bluesky is not behaving in a particularly eloquent manner. Instead, he is engrossed in the conference brochure, cursing and swearing.

      The brochure describes the ‘Coal & Ice Sustainability Summit’ where Professor Bluesky is to deliver the results of his ground-breaking research: ‘A Grand Unified Theory of Life & Earth’. According to the brochure, the address is to be delivered by none-other than Professor Timothy ‘Blue Sky’. That’s Blue Sky, not Bluesky. Big difference.

      Professor Bluesky rarely gets angry, but the one thing that really ticks him off is when people misspell his name. Blue Sky! he grumbles. Damned Blue Sky! He looks up to see the young woman approach, and observes her incriminating name badge.

      Sixteen times! he tells her, abruptly. "I counted sixteen times. People come up to me and say, ‘Oh, Hello Professor Blue Sky’. And I ask, why is it so? So I check the document they all carry and find it’s your fault. You’ve spelt my damned name wrong!"

      I am very sorry, Sir, the young lady says, taken aback by the handsome Professor’s irritation.

      "For forty years I study this planet to discover a Grand Unified Theory, and you people can’t even spell my damned name right. It’s not pronounced Blue Sky. It’s pronounced Beluski!"

      I do beg your pardon, the poor woman says, defensively.

      Like a whale, Professor Bluesky rants. "A Blue Whale. On skis. Picture that. A whale on skis. Beluski!"

      Professor Bluesky, there is something else, the young woman says, regretting what comes next.

      Else? What else?

      Sir, I am afraid that your presentation has been cancelled.

      Professor Bluesky stops talking. His eyes narrow and he studies the woman to see if she is lying. Or mistaken. Or maybe he misheard. This cannot possibly be happening. The silence is eerie.

      She says, The Government, who funded this conference, insist that your slot is given to the Minister who is to announce the New Energy Policy.

      Professor Bluesky mulls this over for a while, crunching the politics through his big brain. It checks out, sort of. You get this on the big jobs. Ministerial intervention, they call it. It’s probably well beyond the control of the dopey organizers who can’t even spell his name properly.

      Professor Bluesky says, "So, you reschedule me and ensure that everyone

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