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Cosmic Contact: The Next Earth

Cosmic Contact: The Next Earth

Cusumano, James A.

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Horror

ISBN10: 1958848689
ISBN13: 9781958848685
Publisher: Worlds Of The Crystal Moon
Published: Mar 6 2023
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Cosmic Contact: The Next Earth is a sci-fi, action adventure that takes place 10 years after Books One and Two. The SPI Team members have become internationally recognized scientists. They are approached by Major John Dallant, who now heads the CIA and NSA, to address a seemingly impossible mission-find a means to save some semblance of humanity, which is on a path to extinction.

The potential impact of runaway climate-change has long been grossly underestimated. The world is rapidly approaching an existential crisis-the Anthropogenic Extinction-the sixth annihilation of Earth-bound species since life first appeared 3.5 billion years ago.

Assisted by teammates Eric Evans and Bella Moreno, and Thay Tuan, the team's consigliere, Luc Ponti, now an astrophysicist at MIT, succeeds in creating a stabilized micro-wormhole, which is launched by NASA into high-Earth orbit and used as a means to contact intelligent life on exoplanets well within the Goldilocks zone-potentially human-habitable planets. Communication through the wormhole enables near-instantaneous contact over hundreds of lightyears of distance. The plan is to reach extraterrestrials who have technology that could help Earth achieve a level of sustainability above what now is sure extinction.

We are-definitely-not alone. The SPI Team ultimately succeeds in connecting with an advanced civilization on an exoplanet 101.4 lightyears from Earth, which they dub Zoi-Greek, meaning life. Unlike Homo sapiens, who became Earth's first behavioral modernity race some 50,000 years ago, these extraterrestrials date the initial appearance of their behavioral modernity beings to 4.667 billion years ago. The Zoians are an advanced civilization beyond our wildest imagination.

They eventually agree to supply a geoengineering technology to position in an Earth high orbit to help humanity better adapt to rapidly escalating climate-induced change. The extraterrestrials also provide transport to Zoi for large numbers of people from around the globe. These migrants have the challenge of adapting to the Next Earth. Those left behind must adjust to pivotal changes on the Old Earth. But do Earth's interstellar travelers know what awaits them on Zoi?

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