History Literature / TheCassandraProject

* AccidentalAesop: The ending, where Blackstone [[spoiler:discovers that the alien message Myshko found stated that Jesus was an alien who hoped to share their technology with the world peacefully, who was killed by [[HumansAreBastards Bastard Humans]]. The aliens left that message hoping that humans would someday find it, having become more ethical. Nixon thought that such a message coming out in TheSixties would cause worldwide chaos, and fabricated a LuddWasRight message. When Blackstone [[SpotTheThread Spots The Thread]] and is shown the BeliefMakesYouStupid message, he agrees with Nixon that it should be covered up in favor of the LuddWasRight message. He, and Nixon, and the President, ''are all Bastards.'' '''Humans have not changed since Jesus' time.''']]

[[{{TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture}} Fifty years since Apollo XI's "One Small Steps for a Man"]][[note]] that would be July 20th, 2019[[/note]] and approximately sixty-one years after {{NASA}}'s inception, [[KnightInSourArmor Jerry Culpepper]], the head of NASA's Public Affair Office department, received a surprise during the press conference on that day: the tape that suppose to play Neil Armstrong's speech was switched to a guy named Myshko getting ready to land on the lunar surface. Naturally, this attracted drama from the press and a very rich person named [[{{Fiction500}} Morgan (Bucky) Blackstone]] who owns a private space company. Morgan intends to dig deeper - after all, he started the space company just to give a middle finger to NASA - using every single resource, even landing on the moon. That resource pile includes Jerry, who at first turn down the offer [[HeelFaceTurn but later accept it]] after getting harassed by the media and [[CorruptBureaucrat NASA's administrator]] Mary Gridley after finding out about a secret project known as the [[TitleDrop Cassandra Project]]. And thus the adventure begins!

[[{{TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture}} Fifty years since Apollo XI's "One Small Steps for a Man"]][[hottip:*: that would be July 20th, 2019]] and approximately sixty-one years after {{NASA}}'s inception, [[KnightInSourArmor Jerry Culpepper]], the head of NASA's Public Affair Office department, received a surprise during the press conference on that day: the tape that suppose to play Neil Armstrong's speech was switched to a guy named Myshko getting ready to land on the lunar surface. Naturally, this attracted drama from the press and a very rich person named [[{{Fiction500}} Morgan (Bucky) Blackstone]] who owns a private space company. Morgan intends to dig deeper - after all, he started the space company just to give a middle finger to NASA - using every single resource, even landing on the moon. That resource pile includes Jerry, who at first turn down the offer [[HeelFaceTurn but later accept it]] after getting harassed by the media and [[CorruptBureaucrat NASA's administrator]] Mary Gridley after finding out about a secret project known as the [[TitleDrop Cassandra Project]]. And thus the adventure begins!

* {{Jerkass}}: Mary Grindley and Milicent Vanguard. Guess what the authors think of their real life counterpart.

Compare/contrast ''Literature/DeceptionPoint'', which have the {{Anvilicious}} messages [[AC: [[RecycledINSPACE IN REVERSE!!]]]]

[[{{TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture}} Fifty years since Apollo XI's "One Small Steps for a Man"]][[hottip:*: that would be July 20th, 2019]] and approximately sixty-one years after {{NASA}}'s inception, [[KnightInSourArmor Jerry Culpepper]], the head of NASA's Public Affair Office department, received a surprise during the press conference on that day: the tape that suppose to play Neil Armstrong's speech was switched to a guy named Myshko getting ready to land on the lunar surface. Naturally, this attracted drama from the press and a very rich person named [[{{Fiction500}} Morgan (Bucky) Blackstone]] who owns a private space company. Morgan intends to dig deeper - after all, he started the space company just to give a middle finger to NASA - using every single resource, even landing on the moon. That resource pile includes Jerry, who at first turn down the offer [[HeelFaceTurn but later accept it]] after getting harassed by the media and [[CorruptBureaucrat NASA's administrator Mary Gridley]] after finding out about a secret project known as the [[TitleDrop Cassandra Project]]. And thus the adventure begins!

The [[http://www.amazon.com/The-Cassandra-Project-Jack-McDevitt/dp/1937008711/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1363303758&sr=8-8&keywords=mike+resnick fanbase]] was not impressed with the WarIsHell anvil.

* AuthorFilibuster: As with most literature [[hottip:*: and a vast majority of Americans]] after the successful flight of [=SpaceShipOne=], the book took an [[{{Anvilicious}} NASA-should-be-abolished]] stand.
** PRIVATE INDUSTRIES FOR THE WIN! DOWN WITH NASA DOWN WITH TYRANNY!

** [[WarIsHell War]] is very, very bad. If we are not careful, we will take human race down with us.
* [[spoiler: BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy]]: [[spoiler: The real plate reveal that Jesus is an alien.]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Morgan is a carbon copy of Elon Musk, except maybe the porn part.

The [[http://www.amazon.com/The-Cassandra-Project-Jack-McDevitt/dp/1937008711/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1363303758&sr=8-8&keywords=mike+resnick fanbase]] was not impressed with the anvils.

** [[spoiler: [[WarIsHell War]] is very, very bad. If we are not careful, we will take human race down with us.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Morgan decide not to reveal the actual content of the alien plate. George Cunningham didn't post FAA regulation to Morgan's flight. Mary allowed Morgan to enter Marshall Spaceflight Center.]]

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: NASA's budget is sliced to almost zero point zero and zero percent, with a budget cut bill in the House. Its [[FridgeHorror headquarter was relocated to Cape Canaveral]] as to severe its connection to D.C. The head of the agency is a Jerkass who only cares about her paycheck from the president (a.k.a. keeping NASA alive). The only reason NASA is alive it is because defunding it means thousands of contractors employed under its pork projects (SLS) suddenly lose their job and unhappy voters. Marshall Spaceflight Center is now a museum. JWST is defunded with public's approval.

** Millicent Vanguard is StephenieMeyer.

* AuthorFilibuster: As with most literature [[hottip:*: and a vast majority of Americans]] after the successful flight of [=SpaceShipOne=], the book took an [[Anvilicious NASA-should-be-abolished]] stand.

* AuthorFilibuster: As with most literature [[hottip:*: and a vast majority of Americans]] after the successful flight of SpaceShipOne, the book took a [[SomeAnvilsNeedsToBeDropped NASA-should-be-abolished]] stand.

* AuthorFilibuster: Of the {{Anvilicious}} kind.

Compare/contrast Literature/DeceptionPoint, which have the {{Anvilicious}} messages [[AC: [[RecycledINSPACE IN REVERSE!!]]]]

[[{{TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture}} Fifty years since Apollo XI's "One Small Steps for a Man"]][[hottip:*: that would be July 20th, 2019]] and approximately sixty-one years after {{NASA}}'s inception, [[KnightInSourArmor Jerry Culpepper]], the head of NASA's Public Affair Office department, received a surprise during the press conference on that day: the tape that suppose to play Neil Armstrong's speech was switched to a guy named Myshko getting ready to land on the lunar surface. Naturally, this attracted drama from the press and a very rich person named [[{{Fiction500}} Morgan (Bucky) Blackstone]] who owns a private space company. Morgan intends to dig deeper - after all, he started the space company just to give a middle finger to NASA - using every single resource, even landing on the moon. That resource pile includes Jerry, who at first turn down the offer [[FaceHeelTurn but later accept it]] after getting harassed by the media and [[CorruptBureaucrat NASA's administrator Mary Gridley]] after finding out about a secret project known as the [[TitleDrop Cassandra Project]]. And thus the adventure begins!

* ShoutOut: Numerous. There is one on [[Series/StarTrek Enterprise]], {{Casablanca}}, [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Moriarty]], many classical musicians, and even [[{{Literature/Twilight}} that infamous series]]!

** It is hinted that[[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics Gun control]] among a majority of Americans, with major shooting incidents such as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting the Tucson shooting]] forgotten.

->"''I'm a capitalist. I think it's a shame that we ever needed NASA in the first place.''"
->--'''Morgan Blackstone'''

NeedsWikiMagicLove.

** [[AnarchyIsChaos Anarchy is NOT chaos, down with the government!]]
** To space, or die.
** [[spoiler: Please don't let the public see the plate, [[WarIsHell or everyone will start fighting, and that is the end of human race]]]]

* ConspiracyKitchenSink: [[spoiler: Watergate is not what is written on history books. Rather, it's an attempted to keep others from receiving a transcript of the alien plates without others to even know such plate's existence.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Cunningham announced there will be action made to defund NASA

** Mary Gridley is Lory Garver

** Skype taking over the usage of telephone
** U.S. more in debt with a higher unemployment rate
** TheWarOnTerror just got more intense
** Politicians finally recognize overpopulation as an issue
** Global warming debunked
** More exoplanets in the Goldilocks zone
** A complete ban of nuclear weapons signed by ALL sovereign states in 2018 at [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Hiroshima]]. Good luck
** [[BarackObama Obama]] getting a second term [[note]]the book was published in November 6, 2012, it is already very obvious Obama would get another term.[[/note]]and replace Charlie Bolden with an idiot named Stephen Goldman.
** Sun is proven to be a binary star system
** public completely withdraw support for NASA
** anti-war hippies revival
** NASA doing nothing, nothing at all, beside hosting GloryDays parties. JWST was defunded. Curiosity is still there. SLS is hinted to be still drawing federal funding, though.
** [[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics Gun control]] was no longer a flame war topic if a majority of Americans forgot about it
** Group marriage is legalized in California. WHAT
* ViewersAreGeniuses: You are required to have some knowledge of popular culture,the space program's current direction, gave some attention to what happens in the Middle East, and U.S. history to get the world view and the plot.

->'''Morgan Blackstone''': "I'm a capitalist. I think it's a shame that we ever needed NASA in the first place."

** KickTheSonOfABitch

* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: NASA's budget is sliced to almost zero point zero and zero percent, with a budget cut bill in the House. Its [[FridgeHorror headquarter was relocated to Cape Canaveral]] as to severe its connection to D.C. The head of the agency is a Jerkass who only cares about her paycheck from the president (a.k.a. keeping NASA alive). The only reason NASA is alive it is because defunding it means thousands of contractors employed under its pork projects (SLS) suddenly lose their job and unhappy voters. Marshall Spaceflight Center is now a museum. JWST is defunded with public's approval.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Morgan decide not to reveal the actual content of the alien plate. George Cunningham didn't post FAA regulation to Morgan's flight.]]

* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Jerry have to take a job in a publishing company since he ran out of money after he ragequit PAO. He did some editing, found an amusing manuscript about the space program, only getting it turn down because it won't sell well, contrast to [[ShoutOut another horrible]] written paranormal romance series. He rage quitted.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: So, in the end of TheNewTens, we are suppose to have (with most on its way to {{Defictionalized}}):

** A complete ban of nuclear weapons signed by ALL sovereign states in 2018 at [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Hiroshima]]. Good luck getting that defictionalized.

* ShoutOut: Numerous. There is one on [[Series/StarTrek Enterprise]], {{Casablanca}}, [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Moriarty]], many classical musicians, and even [[Literature/Twilight that infamous series]]!

* ShoutOut: Numerous. There is one on [[Series/StarTrek Enterprise]], {{Casablanca}}, [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Moriarty]], and many classical musicians.

* AuthorFilibuster: PRIVATE INDUSTRIES FOR THE WIN! DOWN WITH NASA DOWN WITH TYRANNY!

* ConspiracyKitchenSink
* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: NASA's budget is sliced to almost zero point zero and zero percent, with a budget cut bill in the House. Its [[FridgeHorror headquarter was relocated to Cape Canaveral]] as to severe its connection to D.C. The head of the agency is a Jerkass who only cares about her paycheck from the president (a.k.a. keeping NASA alive). The only reason NASA is alive it is because defunding it means thousands of contractors employed under its pork projects suddenly lose their job and unhappy voters.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: So, in the end of TheNewTens, we are suppose to have (with most on its way to defictionalized):

** NASA doing nothing, nothing at all, beside hosting GloryDays parties. JWST was never launched. Curiosity is still there. SLS is hinted to be still drawing federal funding, though.
* WhosLaughingNow/ SelfMadeMan: The same guy that publishes an underground porn magazine is now an anarchist billionaire who scammed a few [[AcceptableReligiousTargets Middle East]] governments for the lulz and is now kicking the U.S. government's ass.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: So, in the end of TheNewTens, we are suppose to have:

** More exoplanets
** A complete ban of nuclear weapons signed by ALL sovereign states in 2018 at [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Hiroshima]]

[[{{TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture}} Fifty years since Apollo XI's "One Small Steps for a Man"]][[hottip:*: that would be July 20th, 2019]] and approximately sixty-one years after {{NASA}}'s inception, [[KnightInSourArmor Jerry Culpepper]], the head of NASA's Public Affair Office department, received a surprise during the press conference on that day: the tape that suppose to play Neil Armstrong's speech was switched to a guy named Myshko getting ready to land on the lunar surface. Naturally, this attracted drama from the press and a very rich person named [[{{Fiction500}} Morgan (Bucky) Blackstone]] who owns a private space company. Morgan intends to dig deeper - after all, he started the space company just to give a middle finger to NASA - using every single resource, even landing on the moon. That resource pile includes Jerry, who at first uses "brainwashed by NASA" as an excuse to not leave [[FaceHeelTurn but later did]] after getting harassed by the media and [[CorruptBureaucrat NASA's administrator Mary Gridley]] after finding out about a secret project known as the [[TitleDrop Cassandra Project]]. And the adventure continues.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Morgan is a carbon copy of Elon Musk.
* StealthPun: Sending NASA to Pluto = defunding NASA, as Pluto is the god of Death.
* WhosLaughingNow: The same guy that publishes an underground porn magazine is now an anarchist billionaire who scammed a few [[AcceptableReligiousTargets Middle East]] governments for the lulz and is now kicking the U.S. government's ass.

The Cassandra Project is an AncientAstronauts book by Creator/JackMcDevitt and Creator/MikeResnick, based on a short story of the same name written in 2010.

[[{{TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture}} Fifty years since Apollo XI's "One Small Steps for a Man"]][[hottip:*: that would be July 20th, 2019]] and approximately sixty-one years after {{NASA}}'s inception, [[KnightInSourArmor Jerry Culpepper]], the head of NASA's Public Affair Office department, received a surprise during the press conference on that day: the tape that suppose to play Neil Armstrong's speech was switched to a guy named Myshko getting ready to land on the lunar surface. Naturally, this attracted drama from the press and a very rich person named [[{{Fiction500}} Morgan (Bucky) Blackstone]] who owns a private space company. Morgan intends to dig deeper - after all, he started the space company just to give a middle finger to NASA - using every single resource, even landing on the moon. That resource pile includes Jerry, who at first uses "brainwashed by NASA" as an excuse to not leave but later did after getting harassed by the media and [[CorruptBureaucrat NASA's administrator Mary Gridley]] after finding out about a secret project known as [[TitleDrop The Cassandra Project]]. And the adventure continues.

* StealthPun: Sending NASA to Pluto = defunding NASA, as Pluto is the god of Death.

[[{{TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture}} Fifty years since Apollo XI's "One Small Steps for a Man"]][[hottip:*: that would be July 20th, 2019]] and approximately sixty-one years after {{NASA}}'s inception, [[KnightInSourArmor Jerry Culpepper]], the head of NASA's PAO department, received a surprise during the press conference on that day: the tape that suppose to play Neil Armstrong's speech was switched to a guy named Myshko getting ready to land on the lunar surface. Naturally, this attracted drama from the press and a very rich person named [[{{Fiction500}} Morgan (Bucky) Blackstone]] who owns a private space company. Morgan intends to dig deeper - after all, he started the space company just to give a middle finger to NASA - using every single resource, even landing on the moon.

StealthPun: sending NASA to Pluto = defunding NASA, as Pluto is the god of Death.

[[{{TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture}} Fifty years since Apollo XI's "One Small Steps for a Man" and approximately sixty-one years after NASA's inception ]], Jerry Culpepper, the head of NASA's PAO department, received a surprise during the press conference on that day: the tape that suppose to play Neil Armstrong's speech was switched to a guy named Myshko getting ready to land on the lunar surface.