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CHAPTER 1: FIRST IMPRESSIONS "Wow! Bunch of us went out in the new anti-gravity vehicles last month! Speedy Gonzalez! You want the ride of the future? You goddamn got it with these mean machines. Be assured – motor racing is DEAD! You can ride 'em to work or you can ride 'em into the ground… just make sure you're riding them somewhere!" – Biz News, Race Days (US Journal), 8 June 2044 Throughout the entirety of that Summer of 2044, when the phenomenon of AG Racing was starting to rise exponentially across the globe after the latest shows and broadcasts presented to the public scene, Barbara spent her school vacation in the newly opened FEISAR’s Junior Team, created for those who wanted to join them ranging between the age of 16 up to 21. Thankfully for the Italian girl, she was fitting the age range just fine since she had her sixteenth birthday just a few months prior. In the meantime, the initial gigantic list of people wanting one of the twelve sought-after spots as a FEISAR Test

AN INCIPIT "The formidable antithesis between the modern world and the ancient one is determined by everything that was not there before. In our lives, there's elements of which the ancients did not even suspect the possibility to exist; material contingencies have been determined and attitudes of the spirit have been revealed which have repercussions in a thousand effects; first of all the formation of a new ideal of beauty that is still obscure and embryonic, but whose charm is being felt by the masses already. We have lost the sense of the monumental, the heavy, the static, and we have enriched our sensitivity with the taste for the light, the practical, the ephemeral and the speed." - Antonio Sant'Elia, from the Manifesto of Futurist Architecture, 11 July 1914, Milan CHAPTER 1: LEAP OF FAITH "Dr. Fraser of the World Technology Symposium went on to say, 'It is clear that many sightings of UFOs are not hoaxes of any kind.' We know this because many of the flying objects are in