BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20180224T220000Z DTEND:20180224T230000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Author Book Signing: "Free the Bear" DESCRIPTION:Author Book Signing at Florey's Book Co. \n\n"Free the Bear" by Author CD Spensley\n\n\n\nAbout the Book:\n\n\n\nWhat if six months after the 2016 election\, California secedes from the union and promptly releases the Jerry Garcia virus on the Pentagon\, appropriating the U.S. nuclear arsenal? Oops! Somebody's been asleep at the wheel for years\, because California is now three decades ahead of the Feds technologically on land\, sea\, air\, and even in space.\n\n\n\nThis is not Calexit. This is FREE THE BEAR!\n\n\n\nIn this first installment of speculative fiction meets literary fiction\, utopian ideas lead\, artificial intelligence advises\, and human foibles continue to mess things up. The story plays out against a backdrop of U.S. treachery and the current direction the world is headed.\n\n\n\nAn ingenious chaos theorist and his team of Silicon Valley scientists withhold key discoveries from the Feds\, aided by an ally that nobody saw coming. What? An AI that meditates? The fledgling nation wages a bloodless secession\, while a million gamers direct roving\, benevolent telefactors (aka drones) to keep the Feds at bay. Quirky "Happy Camps" delight captured U.S. soldiers with a taste of California life. ("Please don't send me back to the Feds!")\n\n\n\nUtopia? Dystopia? You decide. This science fiction tale will have even the most cynical U.S. citizens waving their Free the Bear flag!\n\n\n\nFor more information\, visit:\n\nhttp://freethebearbook.com/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Author Book Signing at Florey'\;s Book Co. \;
\n"\;Free the Bear"\; by Author CD Spensley
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\nAbout the Book:
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\nWhat if six months after the 2016 election\, California secedes from the union and promptly releases the Jerry Garcia virus on the Pentagon\, appropriating the U.S. nuclear arsenal? Oops! Somebody&rsquo\;s been asleep at the wheel for years\, because California is now three decades ahead of the Feds technologically on land\, sea\, air\, and even in space.
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\nThis is not Calexit. This is FREE THE BEAR!
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\nIn this first installment of speculative fiction meets literary fiction\, utopian ideas lead\, artificial intelligence advises\, and human foibles continue to mess things up. \;The story plays out against a backdrop of U.S. treachery and the current direction the world is headed.
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\nAn ingenious chaos theorist and his team of Silicon Valley scientists withhold key discoveries from the Feds\, aided by an ally that nobody saw coming. What? An AI that meditates? The fledgling nation wages a bloodless secession\, while a million gamers direct roving\, benevolent telefactors (aka drones) to keep the Feds at bay. Quirky &ldquo\;Happy Camps&rdquo\; delight captured U.S. soldiers with a taste of California life. (&ldquo\;Please don&rsquo\;t send me back to the Feds!&rdquo\;)
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\nUtopia? Dystopia? You decide. This science fiction tale will have even the most cynical U.S. citizens waving their Free the Bear flag!
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\nFor more information\, visit:
\nhttp://freethebearbook.com/ LOCATION:Florey's Book Co. 2120 Palmetto Ave. Pacifica\, California 94044 UID:e.1153.16217 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260522T223345Z URL:http://business.pacificachamber.com/events/details/author-book-signing-free-the-bear-16217 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR