The Ruba'yat of Omar Khayam (1899)

This is an awe-inspiring sci-fi story about a below average man who has scores of personal evils. Heas an insulin-dependent diabetic that drinks too much beer, eats too much junk food, chain smokes cigarettes, indulges in marijuana, and heas suffering from deep-rooted guilt. Due to his lack of common sense, his young, beautiful daughter is a comatose patient in a hospice nursing home in Dallas, Texas. His self-tormented life radically changes after receiving a mysterious gift that may alter the destiny of humanity.