Dave the Scientist - Andrew Haywood

You've just found out that humanity will be eradicated in 10 years' time and you're the only person in the world that can stop it from happening. The problem is that you're a 22 year old barman from a small town in Yorkshire, England and the way you found out about it all is so improbable that telling anyone is likely to have you committed to an asylum. Humanity has to believe you, or it dies. Dave the Scientist is the first of three books that follow the trials of Dave Sedgewick as he tries to convince humanity that it needs to cast off all technology within the next ten years or be wiped from history by an alien civilisation. He is helped by a rogue alien entity that is tired of being an instrument of destruction but who, to avoid detection by its race, can only speak to Dave. His task is simple, contact the leadership of the world, tell them he has spoken to an alien and that they need to give up every advance developed within the last thousand years. The problem is that they have to believe him and then actually convince people to do it. What follows is a funny, yet thought provoking journey that explores whether extraordinary people are born that way, or are in fact, just ordinary people thrown into an extraordinary situation, forced to get on and deal with it because it's better than the alternative.