The Lifeboat

ISBN-13: 9781532795329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 382 str.

Keith Fenwick; Adrienne Harris; Illuminati Design

Opis

A secret government organisation has learnt of an asteroid headed on a collision course with earth. If the asteroid strikes it will most likely be the end of road for humanity and life as we know it. Members of this agency are charged with making contact with an alien from the planet Skid, known to be lurking on or above earth in order to enlist his assistance to save the world. Bruce Harwood a farmer from New Zealand, is riding in a limousine with his new wife to their wedding reception. The Skidian everyone is looking for happens to be accompanying Bruce and his new wife Sue. All is not as it might seem at first glance. The asteroid isn't heading toward earth by accident and Bruce isn't just any farmer from New Zealand. The asteroid has been sent on its way by the Skidian first people who have uploaded themselves to a celestial version of the cloud and now define themselves as Transcendents. These Transcendents have a plan for earth that does not include an asteroid strike. The Lifeboat takes us on a journey that ultimately not only fulfils the Transcendent's requirements but also goes a long way to explaining the true meaning of life and 'everything'. While this novel is nominally a work of science fiction, it is also a discourse on topics ranging from the rise and fall of civilization to the state of world politics, in a fantastically humorous and thoroughly entertaining fashion.