11,797 Words

Can a humble Ad-Man from Knuckleville, USA, beat William Shakespeare and Marie Curie in a battle of minds? Leap Hamilton is a can-do copywriter in 1959 who gets transported to the year 2119 by an AI known as Isaac. Isaac needs a champion to help Humanity regain its former glory. People, you see, have become too reliant on Isaac's problem-solving abilities. Hence, future humans are dumb as Toilet Golf. So, Leap must compete against Shakespeare and Curie to solve an impossible task: help a race of aliens get to the next galaxy in time, or risk a civil war. Can Leap prove that he has what it takes? It's not like he'll be executed if he fails. . . Ad Man, Ad Astra is a Sci-Fi novelette, complete at 12,000 words.