Letter to the Future

Best-selling novelist Michael O’Brien returns to the theme of people of faith striving to find their way through a societal collapse during the rise of new dimensions of totalitarianism.

Set in the near future, all of North America is plunged into crisis as basic communications and other services suddenly and inexplicably fail. As the tension mounts, a disparate group of people come together from several directions, apparently by coincidence. Many of them are strangers to each other, and some are very young—whom their parents and guardians call ‘our pied piper children.’

Moved by grace and dreams, they leave behind all securities and endure numerous alarming trials as they follow the thread of inspiration, seeking refuge in the mountains of British Columbia. Their choice to proceed in blind faith will bring about unforeseen consequences that are fully revealed only in the distant future.


Genre: Inspirational

"A harrowing and compelling tale - not unlike the classic 1984 or the Booker Prize Winner Prophet Song - of a future that feels impossibly foreign while within reach. Yet O'Brien's tale differs from the traditional dystopian genre by offering an unbreakable thread of hope - a hope born of sacrifice, community, love, and the resilient beauty of human nature when surrendered to God in faith. An epic and gripping adventure!" - Katherine Reay