The Grand Plan is Book One of The Grand Plan Saga -- a chronicle of life on Earth in a universe where humanity is not alone.

The Grand Plan is the story of how extraterrestrials brought civilization to Earth, drawing on the ancient Sumerian legends and poems that predate the Bible by thousands of years and provide the earliest account of a universal flood. Here's a sneak preview... ... Earth is in crisis, suffering from "the Torments," social and political turmoil brought on by runaway climate change.

On board the Abzu, astrogeologist Nick Adamstock and physician and geneticist Helena Minnahan are rocketing through a temporary fold in spacetime to the barren, outermost planet in the solar system. Their mission: to mine the gold desperately needed for artificial photosynthesis to save their home. But when the untested spacetime fold fails, the Abzu is marooned in a distant galaxy on an eerily familiar planet, rich with gold but also teeming with Earth-like life based on identical DNA.

As they explore, the two scientists soon stumble upon "the People," a clan of primitive hunter-gatherers who appear intelligent but seem to lack the mental spark -- curiosity, imagination, inventiveness -- that makes intelligence truly useful. The exception is Ava, an attractive and exceptionally gifted member of the clan.

Nick and Ava soon fall in love, and she persuades the People to help the Abzu crew mine the gold and grow the crops necessary for long-term survival. In return, Helena and Nick, now one of many of the crew who'd started families, teach the clan basic skills, introducing them to new tools and concepts and exposing them to the institutions they will need in an organized society; Helena even secretly modifies the hybrid children's genes.

Discovering life on "New Earth" was astonishing enough, but discovering "life like us" stretches the bounds of credibility and chance. As they watch the People quickly adapt to their new way of life, Nick and Helena speculate that it was no accident that brought them there but something more far-reaching and consequential.

Are they part of a "grand plan" to spread civilization throughout the universe?

• We just started tracking this book.
• The current price of this book is £2.25 last checked one hour ago.
• This book is currently at its lowest price since we started tracking it.

• Science Fiction & FantasyScience FictionFirst Contact

• Publication Date: February 6, 2025
• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 464 Pages
• File Size: 16 KB