Michael Anderson is a teenage planetologist haunted by the fear that he will never live up to the legacy of his astrophysicist parents. Terra Beck is the outcast child of a bitter divorce, who only wants to run away and immerse herself in her one true passion: astronomy. Raised on a distant space station by the scientists who constructed mankind's first artificial wormhole, neither has set foot on Earth.
When the scientists detect a mysterious signal from an Earthlike planet on the other side of the wormhole, Michael and Terra find themselves alone on an exploration mission to discover the signal's source. They no sooner arrive at the system, however, ...
Michael Anderson is a teenage planetologist haunted by the fear that he will never live up to the legacy of his astrophysicist parents. Terra Beck is the outcast child of a bitter divorce, who only wants to run away and immerse herself in her one true passion: astronomy. Raised on a distant space station by the scientists who constructed mankind's first artificial wormhole, neither has set foot on Earth.
When the scientists detect a mysterious signal from an Earthlike planet on the other side of the wormhole, Michael and Terra find themselves alone on an exploration mission to discover the signal's source. They no sooner arrive at the system, however, than a mysterious alien ghost ship appears out of nowhere and begins to hunt them down. Alone, twenty light years from the nearest human being, they must learn to open up and trust each other—but how can they do that when one or both of them may be insane?
As Michael struggles to keep the mission from falling apart, he is forced to reexamine his deepest, most unquestioned beliefs about the universe—and about what it means to be human.
Genesis Earth is a 70,000 word novel. It was a quarter finalist for the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and a short excerpt won first place in the 2009 Mayhew short story contest at Brigham Young University.
This is space opera of the highest caliber. There are grand, sweeping ideas, the discovery of a new world, first contact with an alien species, an examination of the nature of humanity, the nature of the human mind. Yet it's always a personal story. No matter how epic the backdrop, you are always reading about engaging, fully-realized characters.
Product Details
BN ID: 2940012773760
Publisher: Joe Vasicek
Publication date: 1/26/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 404,883
File size: 717 KB
Meet the Author
I was born in Texas, grew up in Massachusetts, and have lived in Illinois, California, Utah, Washington DC, and Amman, Jordan (for one very awesome summer). I attended Brigham Young University from '06 to '10, where I studied Political Science and Middle East Studies & Arabic. I've been writing since I was 8 years old and making up stories since before that. When I'm not writing, I enjoy reading, blogging, hiking, retro-gaming, cooking Middle Eastern food, and playing accordion / Irish low whistle for the Utah Valley folk rock band Milo.
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Michael Anderson is a teenage planetologist haunted by the fear that he will never live up to the legacy of his astrophysicist parents. Terra Beck is the outcast child of a bitter divorce, who only wants to run away and immerse herself in her one true passion: astronomy. Raised on a distant space station by the scientists who constructed mankind's first artificial wormhole, neither has set foot on Earth.When the scientists detect a mysterious signal from an Earthlike planet on the other side of the wormhole, Michael and Terra find themselves alone on an exploration mission to discover the signal's source. They no sooner arrive at the system, however, ...