The Great Return is Book Two of The Grand Plan Saga—A chronicle of life on Earth in a universe where humanity is not alone.
The Great Return is the true-to-life story of America's recognition that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth and the speculation about what it might mean, as seen through the eyes of those "visitors" who were first to arrive twelve thousand-plus years ago. Here’s a sneak preview . . .
. . . How did the ‘grand plan’ work out on ‘New Earth’?
Did nudging ‘the People’ forward—teaching the primitive hunter-gatherers basic skills, introducing them to new tools and concepts, exposing them to the institutions they would need in an organized society, even tinkering with their genes—produce the hoped-for great and enduring civilization?
Nick Adamstock and the crew of the Abzu are about to get the answer. Rocketing through the time-dilating spacetime fold, they’re forced to return to ‘New Earth,’ the planet they were marooned on some twelve thousand-plus years before—in their absence, their old Earth was destroyed by runaway climate change and nuclear Armageddon.
The outlook isn’t promising; the Abzu arrives as the first atomic bombs explode. Can Nick and the crew find peace and safety by blending in to an America beset by an unholy trinity of troubles—the unending Cold War, contentious race relations, and random gun violence as well as targeted political assassinations—all with Vietnam on the horizon?
And what to make of the other ‘visitors’ on Earth—the mysterious UFOs seen by millions? Despite rumored crashes, they appear to be as technologically advanced as the Abzu. Do they pose an existential threat, or more hopefully, are they here to give the descendants of the People a second chance, a renewed grand plan to save humanity from self-destruction?
Genre: Science Fiction
The Great Return is the true-to-life story of America's recognition that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth and the speculation about what it might mean, as seen through the eyes of those "visitors" who were first to arrive twelve thousand-plus years ago. Here’s a sneak preview . . .
. . . How did the ‘grand plan’ work out on ‘New Earth’?
Did nudging ‘the People’ forward—teaching the primitive hunter-gatherers basic skills, introducing them to new tools and concepts, exposing them to the institutions they would need in an organized society, even tinkering with their genes—produce the hoped-for great and enduring civilization?
Nick Adamstock and the crew of the Abzu are about to get the answer. Rocketing through the time-dilating spacetime fold, they’re forced to return to ‘New Earth,’ the planet they were marooned on some twelve thousand-plus years before—in their absence, their old Earth was destroyed by runaway climate change and nuclear Armageddon.
The outlook isn’t promising; the Abzu arrives as the first atomic bombs explode. Can Nick and the crew find peace and safety by blending in to an America beset by an unholy trinity of troubles—the unending Cold War, contentious race relations, and random gun violence as well as targeted political assassinations—all with Vietnam on the horizon?
And what to make of the other ‘visitors’ on Earth—the mysterious UFOs seen by millions? Despite rumored crashes, they appear to be as technologically advanced as the Abzu. Do they pose an existential threat, or more hopefully, are they here to give the descendants of the People a second chance, a renewed grand plan to save humanity from self-destruction?
Genre: Science Fiction
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