The Prodigal Planet

By Edward Maurer

How would you feel if you "discovered" Earth?

For over eighty years, Earth has been sending-out its radio and television signals into deep space as a by-product of modern life. These transmissions are now beginning to find a new audience...and that alien audience is shaken by them. Eof, scientist and lone discoverer of these signals, begins the task of deciphering them and struggles to understand the new reality the signals uncover, a reality that threatens the very fabric of life on his tranquil planet of Frater. In a tormenting effort to protect and hide this discovery of Earth from his colleagues, his wife, and all of Frater, Eof is challenged by the forces of evil that wish to expand Earth’s chaos on his home planet. Find-out how Eof’s discovery is chronicled in the lives of his acquaintances and its unexpected consequences for Frater...and Earth.

Prologue
Part 1
Chapter 1: Contact
Chapter 2: An Open Door
Chapter 3: Gasparilla
Chapter 4: Getting To Know My Brother
Part 2
Chapter 6: The Encounter
Chapter 7: Close Your Eyes
Chapter 8: Is That All There Is?
Chapter 5: We Had It All
Chapter 9: Shock And Awe
Chapter 10: A New Paradigm
Chapter 11: True Or False
Chapter 12: Saint Guid
Chapter 13: Chaos
Part 3
Chapter 14: The New Believers
Chapter 15: Welcome To The Feast
Chapter 16: Instant Message
Chapter 17: Arecibo

The author holds all rights to this work.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Edward Maurer
• Release date: Sep 10, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452314617

Edward Maurer

Edward's childhood was during the race to the moon, living so close to Cape Kennedy that the windows rattled upon lift-off of the Apollo spacecraft. He left home at age eighteen and joined the Navy where he traveled around the world for the next five years. He grew-up quickly. Upon honorable discharge from active duty, he pursued advanced study in Economics at Florida State University. Ten years later, he would study Computer Information Systems at the University of Tampa, finishing just in time for Y2K.

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