Not Alone on Earth

The year is 2033, and Earth no longer has enough land free of frequent life-killing climate events. Consequently, scientists from various disciplines worldwide are experimenting with submarine cities. The protagonist, Elizabeth, is a marine biologist who naturally appreciates trips off the submarine in a bathyscaphe to explore marine life. When she encounters a being traveling in something similar to a bathyscaphe, she is amazed, fascinated, and determined to find a way to communicate with an obvious sentient being. The crew named the alien pilot Alon. When the head of the Submarine City project, located in the UN building, insists on capturing Alon for study, Elizabeth is furious. She considers it impossible without killing Alon. Her battle to protect him threatens her job.

Elizabeth has lived a life of challenges. Her lifelong challenge has been to require corporations to fight climate change. She wrote her PhD thesis about the failure of corporations to take action to stem climate change. In her prologue to her PhD thesis, she described corporations' pretense at fighting climate change through legislation as being similar to the foxes proposing to the chickens that they want to join their coop to help solve the problem of chickens disappearing.

Elizabeth grew up on a farm in NW Iowa, and is accustomed to hard work. Readers will enjoy her reminiscing about her childhood with her Black bathyscaphe copilot, who grew up on the South Side of Chicago. Her entire team constitutes a collection of interesting scientists with fascinating backgrounds. The US is the only country with two representatives.