This Changes Everything
Volume I
The Spanners Series
Sally Ember, Ed.D.
Copyright ©2013, 2015 Sally Ember, Ed.D.
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 9781310232428
All logo art and covers for The Spanners Series are
original, by WillowRaven
For the annotated list with synopses and updated release dates of all ten Volumes in The Spanners Series, see Appendix A in this and every Volume.
DISCLAIMER: Any resemblance to people and events living or dead depicted in The Spanners Series is due to the fact that “anything that can happen is happening,” a function of the multiverse in which we live. If it's not “true” here, it's true somewhere, sometime. However, if you or your events are described and you don't appreciate the depiction(s), please contact me. Let's talk.
---the author
St. Louis, Missouri USA
DEDICATION
To all the Epifanios and those who love them: May we all be able to give and receive love superbly in this and every timeline of the multiverse.
May all beings have peace and the circumstances for peace.
May all beings have happiness and the conditions for happiness.
May all beings have joy and the causes of joy.
May all beings benefit.
REVIEWS
What others are saying about The Spanners Series
Volume I, This Changes Everything
"This Changes Everything by Sally Ember is a well-written, complex work that is going to add a strong title to a genre that can sometimes become bogged down with the same old, same old. This Changes Everything is a book that I am very happy to have had the chance to read and I would recommend it to any sci-fi/fantasy fan."
--Zach Tyo, Indie Reviews, 10/4/13
"You have created your characters very well. I feel for Clara, I imagine her alienating a lot of people because her enthusiasm and drive and ability to push herself makes her someone who doesn't suffer fools gladly. I would have liked more of the reporter's life and I didn't like Epifanio at all. He sounded arrogant and selfish. I loved that the aliens were chosen by lottery. You had so many good touches like that, which made the book a continuing surprise. I...have to say it is one of the most challenging, exciting and original books I've read."
--Josephine O'Brien, author, Sharing Skies, 9/14/13
"You have written a wonderfully imaginative and original story with plenty of twists and turns. I really like your multiuniverse setting with different timelines and the concept of the 'Many Worlds Collective.'"
--Sophekles, author, The Serotonin Transfer, 10/8/13
"I love your sense of humor. I literally laughed out loud when Clara said that she had given him the name 'Led.' I also like that this is an alien story where the aliens are helping, rather than trying to take over the world. It's a refreshing angle."
--S.M. Koz, author, Pangalax, 9/4/13
"...I found the story itself to be one of the most immersive and original ones I have read recently. Amongst the sea of science-fiction novel clones, there is This Changes Everything, a book in which old ideas are taken in completely new directions (such as the whole intergalactic committee actually trying to help the humans), and new ideas are spawned by the dozens...[Ember is] presenting us an enthralling and original storyline set in a majestic and extremely-detailed world, populated by many characters that will stay with you once the last pages are closed. I wholeheartedly recommend the book to science-fiction fans.”
--David ben Efraim, Quick Book Reviews, 1/20/14
"[This Changes Everything] is highly-imaginative, but for so many different reasons, and outside of the normal scope. There are times when I felt that I was reading an actual research report of true to life events. Honestly, I’m sitting at my laptop, questioning if Clara has provided this work to Ember, or if the two are one in the same. The experience is mind-altering, and would challenge readers to think beyond the bubble that we live in. I would surely recommend This Changes Everything to anyone that enjoys a well-written and researched Sci-Fi series. I will point out that it pushes the envelope, and toys with one’s perception. Well done! 5 Stars."
--Janice G. Ross, author, JRG Writer, 11/11/13
"The writing is complex and done extremely well....There were times when I almost forgot I was reading a work of fiction and not a news account of real events, and I would consider that to be skilled writing indeed....[D]id I enjoy more of it than not? Yes. Four stars. Did I like the overall content? Most of the time. Three stars. Was the writing of good quality? Oh, definitely yes. Five stars. My overall rating: four of five stars."
--Lynda Dietz, Easy Reader, 11/4/13
Volume II, This Changes My Family and My Life
Forever
"One thing I like very much about The Spanners Series is the message that we can all live together in peace, learn from each other, be there for each other. All differences (religious, racial, gender, and even between species and inhabitants of other planets) are overcome. I mean, how cool would that be to be able to communicate with animals - and not in a jokey, Eddie Murphy-Dr. Dolittle-kind of way, but accept them and their needs / interests as equal to humans? And those people who resist change (yes, there will always be those, even if it is clear that the change is for the better) will not be eliminated, but gently persuaded to recognize what is best for them."
--Peggy Farooqi, The Pegster Reads, 5/31/14
https://thepegsterreads.blogspot.co.uk
Volume III, This Is/Is Not the Way I Want Things to Change
“Because this reads like documentation of actual events, I came away from it feeling like my own little life is petty and trivial and a waste of 'time.' Like, I’m not part of The Movement and I ought to run right out and start a victory garden or a recycling programor find an ESP trainer and get started learning how to TK or.... “
“The entire series is such an astounding creation it amazes me that it’s the production of just one person.”
--Devorah “Dee” Fox, Dee-Scoveries, fantasy/
thriller author, journalist, columnist, 9/25/15
https://devorahfox.com
This Changes Everything
Volume I, The Spanners Series
by Sally Ember, Ed.D.
Copyright 2013, revised 2015 Sally Ember, Ed.D.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dedication
REVIEWS
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER ONE
First Contact between the Many Worlds Collective (MWC) and Clara Branon, Ph.D., in northern California, December, 2012
CHAPTER INTERLUDE I
Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, What is Fiction?
CHAPTER TWO
Minutes from the Fission Subcommittee, MWC Intergalactic Council, Earth Date: August 5, 1945, Page 6 of 9
CHAPTER INTERLUDE II
Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Clara Freaks Out
CHAPTER THREE
"'They' Never Leave: the MWC and Earthers; or, Crop Circles, Alien 'Abductions,' Whitley Streiber, Roswell/Area 51 and other MWC Blunders," Opening Remarks given by Dr. Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., Chief Communicator and Liaison between Earth and the Many Worlds Collective Global Unity Leaders Council #1, 6/8/15, The Hague, The Netherlands
CHAPTER INTERLUDE III
Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Who are "The Spanners"?
CHAPTER FOUR
Many Worlds Collective Intergalactic Travel Authority Accident Report, Earth Location and Date: Roswell, NM, USA, July 8, 1947
CHAPTER IN
TERLUDE IV
Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Ackerman Family's Adventures in Psychokinesis
CHAPTER FIVE
The Mayan and Current Calendars; or, Why First Publishable MWC Contact Occurs on December 21, 2012, Vid Interview given by Dr. Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., Chief Communicator and Liaison between Earth and the Many Worlds Collective, January 6, 2014, with Media Contact, Esperanza Enlaces, Interviewer
CHAPTER INTERLUDE V
Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Clara Develops Trust in The Band
CHAPTER SIX
Epifanio's Version, Epifanio Dang Tells His Story
MWC Collective Artists’ Guild's Philosophy and Policy on Off-Planet Installations, Approximate Earth Locations and Date: Teotihuacan (Mexico) and Sudan (Africa) Pyramids, 250 BCE
CHAPTER INTERLUDE VI
Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Clara Describes Her Earlier Timulting Experiences
CHAPTER EIGHT
Second Public Contact between the MWC and Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., or, This Is Not a Dream
CHAPTER NINE
From Esperanza Enlaces' private journal entries, February 13 - December 23, 2012
CHAPTER INTERLUDE VII
Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Confessions of a Bad Poet: How I Become a Writer
CHAPTER TEN
How Our Contacts Become Public (thanks to my son, Zephyr Branon, and the 2013 world-wide web [www])
CHAPTER INTERLUDE VIII
Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, "Clara: the Outsider Who Becomes the Ultimate Insider" rehearsal for interview with Espe for May 2, 2013
CHAPTER ELEVEN
First Internet News Stories, posted simultaneously on The San Francisco Chronicle’s website as well as salon.com, Reuters.com, slate.com and hundreds of other sites on January 5, 2013, and the Changes Publicizing the MWC Contact Bring
CHAPTER TWELVE
Individuals from the Many Worlds Collective: Their Names and Their Worlds (as Earthers know them)
CHAPTER INTERLUDE IX
A Compilation from Clara Branon's Personal Journals, All the Epifanios
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Do Solar Storms Make Us Do It? Conflict, Wars, Violence and Other Human Flaws Are Not Our Fault?
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Exploding and Imploding Earthers; or, What the Buddha Teaches That Makes His Followers’ Heads Explode, Public Talk given by Dr. Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., Chief Communicator, new Nobel Laureate, Nobel Peace Prize Recipients' Ceremony, 12/12/16, Oslo, Norway
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Generated by Events of January, 2013 – March, 2013, Contact-Induced Injuries Report made to MWC Intergalactic Council, April 27, 2013 Earth Date
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Whom I Save and How It Happens; or, “I Told You So, Part I” (for my brother, Dr. Thomas Ackerman)
CHAPTER INTERLUDE X
Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Being Changed "For Good"
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
MWC Lottery Winners Determine First Public Delegation to Earth, Story posted on mwcw.lottery.verse, December 8, 2012 Earth date
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
How Ongoing Contacts and My Role as Chief Communicator Change(d) Me
CHAPTER NINETEEN
IGC MWC Musicians and Artists Festival, first-ever held on Earth, Sydney, Australia, August 15-22, 2022 Earth dates
CHAPTER INTERLUDE XI
Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Even Social Media Have “Previews”
CHAPTER TWENTY
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
From Esperanza Enlaces' private journal entries, April 18 - May 20, 2013
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
“Imagine: The Elimination of Nations, Boundaries, Citizenship, Race, Religions, Politics, Hunger, Poverty and War: What John Lennon Knows," Public Talk given by Dr. Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., Chief Communicator, Templeton Prize Recipient for 2014, 5/12/14, London, England
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Minutes from the Jesus Subcommittee, MWC Planning Committee Meeting, Capernaum, Galilee (Israel, Africa), November 13, 32 A.D. Earth Date, Page 2
CHAPTER INTERLUDE XII
Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Explanations, Appendices and Acknowledgments
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
The Love Story Embedded in This Story; or, “I Told You So, Part II” (that’s for My Future Husband, Epifanio Dang)
CHAPTER INTERLUDE XIII
Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, When Trouble is not Trouble
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Interspecies/Interplanetary Marriagebond Laws stories posted on mwcw.laws.verse, May 30, 2023 and February 10, 2035, Earth Dates
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
Other versions of Clara and Epifanio's Love Story (either/ors and both/ands)
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
Sono-Pictorial Languages of Cetaceans, Sign Language and Vocalizations of Primates and Other Species’ Communication Modalities on Earth and Afar
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
There’s No Time Like the Present; or, (as Zephyr Branon coins) Timultaneity: Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Outside It
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
The Media and Clara,POPULAR MEDIA, "Lost and Found: How My Time with the Aliens Helps Me Lose 130 lbs. and Find Love,” interview with Clara Ackerman Branon, Ph.D., by Esperanza Enlaces, O Magazine [Oprah Winfrey’s periodical], September, 2014, Earth Date
CHAPTER THIRTY
“The Future of Earth and the Many Worlds Collective,” Panel Discussion at the Ceremony for the Retirement of the Chief Communicator, Part I, San Francisco, California, USA, Link MediaVerse Studios, December 22, 2040, Earth Date
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
What Happens When we Die? Clara Learns About Return and ReInvolvement
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
“The Future of Earth and the Many Worlds Collective,” Panel Discussion at the Ceremony for the Retirement of the Chief Communicator, Part II, San Francisco, California, USA, Link MediaVerse Studios, December 22, 2040, Earth Date
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
Clara Explains Human Relationships to The Band: The Romantic Paradox
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
Photos and Captions
CHAPTER INTERLUDE XIV
Excerpts from the Chief Communicator’s Occasional Log, Clara's Apology Letter to Epifanio
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
Even the Chief Communicator Disappoints Her Mother