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Nearly two years ago I self-published my first and only novel on Amazon as e-book. A few months later I found the Smashword site and republished it, since you can't give a book permanently away for free on Amazon.
In the mean time there have been a few downloads of this e-book, but my guess is that nobody actually has read the whole book from virtual cover to (non-existen back-) cover. And believe me, that's quite understandable, for the book is so utterly boring and disturbing at the same time.
A friend of mine told me, by the time he had reached chapter 7:  "Now that's you on your soapbox"
Of course he was totally wrong.
I had been standing on my soapbox from the very first word of the prologue and never left it until the very last of the epilogue. He just hadn't noticed it earlier on.
In Chapter 7 "the Professor", the builder of time-machine, walks his grand-niece through a partially holographic lesson of world history.This lesson didn't resonate well with my friend who like me is a devout Catholic but unlike me he is also a convinced American conservative.
As for me, I've found soap-boxes all around, when I read any novel or watched a movie or tv-show lately, and that sadly has taken quite a bit of enjoyment out of the reading and watching experience.
Some boxes are filled with political ideas, others with psychological or religious ones. 
Science fiction writers often stand on social-darwinist-anarchist soap-boxes and occasionally on Marxist-socialist ones. Detective Stories writers often prefer the authoritarian conservative soap-boxes while love-story writers the liberal pornographic ones. And the soap-boxes of the environmentally inclined novelists generally contain lots of gloom and doom.
Readers normally don't notice those boxes, when the content corresponds with their own world view. 
The more interesting observation is, that there are actual authors who claim to be totally innocent of having even the slightest noticeable world view except a view toward commercial viability, while condemning those authors who admit to one apart from that.
"When Hope Came" is quite boring, because it goes against every rule of a sci-fi's commercial viability containing far more dialogue than action, going heavy on metaphors but still lacking in subtlety.
 And therefor it's also quite disturbing, because my soapbox containing that giant sledgehammer for driving home every point, is so big and cumbersome,  it just doesn't fit in any of the drawers which normally separate different strains from one another. 
The book is a dream, a vision I had of a future without war and without rulers... at least in 99.97% of the world.
And the rest, the 0.03%, is called "Orange Country"

      excerpt:
          <em>“What is Orange Country?” David asked.
                     “Hell,” was Hope's short answer.</em>

And so here on steemit I will from time to time write about my dream  and about a little girl who came from the future...

If you are so inclined you can download the book at the link below, in any format you like and 100% totally and absolutely free
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/576437