Innocent Earth
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Earth has attained world peace at last. Overseen by the World Council, based in Jerusalem, the planet has truly become a global community, and humanity has reached an age of enlightenment.
This is the time when the visitors arrive.
Wielding near-miraculous technology, they arrive claiming to have seeded Earth with humans, and have returned to claim "their own." Their claims and their appearance seem prophesied by the Bible, and religion and politics clash as arguments break out whether these visitors have the right to take people, even as it becomes apparent that humanity could do little to stop them.
Arhus Gint is a lowly translator working for the esteemed World Council when he happens to catch the attention of an ambassador, and the visitors. Suddenly, a man with no political aspirations finds himself at the centre of negotiations between the World Council and the visitors. As tensions rise and people on both sides of the argument become more desperate, Arhus wonders less if he can keep his job throughout it all and worries more if he can even keep his head.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
McClenning's debut weaves a complicated and sometimes terrifying story of what political and religious arguments arise when aliens visit 24th-century Jerusalem, and how deadly it can be to go against what the aliens want. After a spacecraft lands at the World Council headquarters, sending the telepathic message "We... return" to the world, Arhus attends the council's emergency meeting as a translator. When Arhus gives his opinion on the meaning of the message, it begins his involvement in a roller coaster of discussions among world leaders, especially after the aliens announce they will take selected people with them when they leave. Asked to set up a communication post, Arhus becomes the first human invited onto the alien ship and the only human whom aliens will speak with. Arhus is often placed in dangerous positions while trying to avoid war, panic, and death. In spite of sections weighed down with political strife, readers will enjoy this high-tension story of a troubled near future.
