| Author: | Robert Mariner | ISBN: | 9781311778109 |
| Publisher: | Robert Mariner | Publication: | November 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Robert Mariner |
| ISBN: | 9781311778109 |
| Publisher: | Robert Mariner |
| Publication: | November 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
Myron Kenichi Watson and his associates believe they are having a first-contact encounter with “the aliens” as, late one December night in 2004, a 350-foot-diameter, disc-shaped spacecraft makes a perfectly-controlled, soundless emergency landing directly in front of them.
They aren’t.
The ship, named "California Dreamin’," has a fully human crew whose ancestors were taken off Earth some 33,000 years ago by real space aliens, and whose star nation, The Refuge Confederation, still refers to Earth as “Home.”
The ship’s crew must make repairs fast enough for it to lift out before Homeland Security and all of Washington’s alphabet-soup gang descend upon the airfield to make life difficult for everyone. To help give them time to do that, Myron, his sister Alice, the airport manager, and eventually Myron and Alice's own parents and even the local police chief cooperate to keep this encounter as quiet as possible.
When radio traffic finally reveals that several Federal agencies have become aware that something strange might be happening at the airport, and have agents on their way to the airfield, Myron and Alice are invited aboard the ship for a visit to our cousins’ local space station. After a soundless and successful departure, they make a leisurely transit to that station, where they spend a few days as guests, learning something of our cousins' culture, history and technologies.
While aboard Home Station, Myron and Alice meet people from various planets of the Refuge Confederation, including those whose ancestors, during visits to Earth over 5,000 years ago, provided the inspiration for many of the legends and myths found all over the world - Norse gods, fabled locations, Asgard and Valhalla - - giants, even Elves.
And Myron finds himself engaged to marry in just under a year, and that he will eventually leave Earth, never to return.
Myron Kenichi Watson and his associates believe they are having a first-contact encounter with “the aliens” as, late one December night in 2004, a 350-foot-diameter, disc-shaped spacecraft makes a perfectly-controlled, soundless emergency landing directly in front of them.
They aren’t.
The ship, named "California Dreamin’," has a fully human crew whose ancestors were taken off Earth some 33,000 years ago by real space aliens, and whose star nation, The Refuge Confederation, still refers to Earth as “Home.”
The ship’s crew must make repairs fast enough for it to lift out before Homeland Security and all of Washington’s alphabet-soup gang descend upon the airfield to make life difficult for everyone. To help give them time to do that, Myron, his sister Alice, the airport manager, and eventually Myron and Alice's own parents and even the local police chief cooperate to keep this encounter as quiet as possible.
When radio traffic finally reveals that several Federal agencies have become aware that something strange might be happening at the airport, and have agents on their way to the airfield, Myron and Alice are invited aboard the ship for a visit to our cousins’ local space station. After a soundless and successful departure, they make a leisurely transit to that station, where they spend a few days as guests, learning something of our cousins' culture, history and technologies.
While aboard Home Station, Myron and Alice meet people from various planets of the Refuge Confederation, including those whose ancestors, during visits to Earth over 5,000 years ago, provided the inspiration for many of the legends and myths found all over the world - Norse gods, fabled locations, Asgard and Valhalla - - giants, even Elves.
And Myron finds himself engaged to marry in just under a year, and that he will eventually leave Earth, never to return.
