The Quest To Save Humanity — David Perry

This is the continuing story of 17-year Mayana who spends months attempting to return from her homeland of Belize to the alternate reality that she visited on her first adventure so that she can reconnect with her friends Shifu, Tata and Calypso. After almost giving up on ever seeing her friends again, she finally discovers how to return to the alternate reality. Upon her arrival in the ancient Maya city of Xunantunich she again meets Shifu and many new friends, all of whom have discovered the powers of magic and how to use them for the good of humanity.The biggest surprise to Mayana is that she has been chosen to save the entire human race that is doomed to destructionA Mayana struggles to understand why humanity needs saving and why she is the one chosen to save it. After spending time in training and going on practice quests, the final quest of saving humanity is put upon her. She is faced with human nature being humanity's own worst enemy and how to protect people from that enemy within. The biggest twist during this adventure is that she discovers that all is not as it seems and that some of the people she trusted implicitly may have ulterior motives. Mayana is then faced with fulfilling the quest of saving humanity while keeping an eye out for danger among the very people she had learned to trust the most.Throughout this story, Mayana continues to learn about what it means to be human through recollections of conversations with her skeptical father and through new adventures with her new friends who take her to have experiences with dinosaurs, Galileo, and in Africa and who help her to better understand humanity as the key to saving humanity. Eventually, her father joins her in the alternate reality on her quest to save humanity. Together they must learn how to overcome humanity's own worst enemy to prevent the Earth from being taken over by cyborgs.In addition to providing an exciting story, this book takes a critical look at science, religion, politics and most of all, at our own humanity with the book concluding that our own human nature is our own worst enemy and is the root of the world's problems. A mix of fiction and nonfiction is provided as a way to create a more enjoyable read than a straight non-fiction book would with an attempt to remain as true to science and history as is possible in the context of a work of science fiction.This story brings in an element of historical and literary fiction in addition to a strong component of true science all in combination with science fiction. These elements bring a sense of realism and sophistication to the story that make it a unique brand of science fiction that cannot be found in any other science fiction stories.