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February 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda COMMENTARY | People talk about the Internet as a force of isolation, a thing that keeps us separate, away in our own homes, staring at our own screens. But it doesn’t always work that way. Sometimes it’s a tool that can take scattered people and draw them together for a single, joined purpose.
This story is one of those stories.
On the social news website Reddit, a user posted a question, wanting to do something amazing for his terminally ill friend. He decided to write to his friend’s favorite author, Harry Turtledove, and ask him if he would, somehow, send his friend Nachu a book that has not yet been published, as he may not live to see its publication. It was one of the things that upset Nachu the most about his failing health, the “redditor” said, sharing their chat. He wouldn’t know how the “War that Came Early” series ended.
He posted the letter he planned to send Turtledove, and asked Reddit for advice, whether it was possible to obtain a book before it was published. The response was extensive; as of the date of this writing, there are 1,062 comments. Suggestions flew. And then, like many of these things, it died down, and we heard nothing.
But the story was not over.
Here’s where it gets emotional, if a terminally-ill young guy contemplating the realities of his own mortality is not yet emotional enough. Nachu’s friend posted this video to show his virtual community how it all turned out; IO9 then reported on the video.
It is, in a word, incredible, and an utterly impossible ending without the spider web of the Internet, without that harbinger of isolation pulling together people who would never, ever otherwise meet. In the video, the friend hands Nachu a belated birthday present: an advance copy of Turtledove’s next book in the series, “The War That Came Early: Coup d’Etat,” which will not be released until July.
Nachu, as you can see, is overwhelmed just by this aspect of the gift. But there is more, and it is the “more” part that demonstrates how much this internet can be used as a means of human connection, as a way to relate, one individual struggling along this planet to another.
Author Harry Turtledove has offered to speak to Nachu, personally, on the phone, and even tell him how the series will end, if he’d like. And with that offer, Turtledove goes from being a name on the jacket of a book to a human being who tells stories, touched by the story of a stranger.
The mechanism itself is also remarkable, collapsing degrees of separation with a single post. It appears, according to the video, that among the readers of that redditor’s question, there were a few editors from Del Rey, Turtledove’s publisher.
It isn’t all bad, our Internet. In fact, when you take the good in us and harness the immense virtual power, it is nothing short of extraordinary.
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