John Lohr – författare

Its 2024 a dig for dinosaurs in Wyoming uncovers something that should not be there. The object quickly becomes a lightening rod for conspiracy theorists, the FBI, Homeland Security. the military, endless lawyers and politicians, as it prepares to collect a crew and depart earth forever. The ship was deliberately placed on earth by an unknown species called "the Others", with a mandate for eight individuals to travel to the galaxy''s inner regions. The choice of crew seemingly makes no sense. Dark, sinister-looking and impenetrable to all but those eight, the object is impervious to any attempt to impede its launch from earth on its way to a dense inner spiral of the galaxy. During the 10,000 light-year voyage, the crew encounters fellow teammates, alien flybys, a neutron star. and the first earthling born in space, After meeting the "Others," each crew member faces a life-altering decision. That decision may decide the fate of these inscrutable "Others", the desperate species that engineered the voyage and had already saved the crew members'' lives.

To those of us who traveled seven years at .9999986 of the speed of light, seven days in deep space with nothing to do may seem like a cake walk. To those on our team who came from new earth, it seemed like an eternity.That all changed when Mocol quietly said, "There''s something out there."….gesturing "there, somewhere ….It''s all around us. No physical form. A lot of consciousness. Can''t determine intent. Don''t know if it''s hostile or not."….Captain Jenna Rydecki called out, " Can we evade it? Can we navigate around it, whatever it is?" "Negative. It''s as if we were captured." ….Jenna barked to Q "let''s recompute our trajectory and get us out of here somehow, STAT! "In this stand alone sequel to .99999, Follow our space wandering team to… the crater moon, wandering moon, ice moon, gas giant, water planet, octopus planet, giant lobsters, unnamed alien menace, uninhabited cities, ruins, bones, gravity anomalies, hostile interplanetary aliens, and the Andromeda Galaxy as they rush to save New Earth.