In a universe expanding into emptiness, a woman of Earth discovers a sentient race which has achieved limitless survival.
"A real switch on alien invasion... we go to their planet."
Here is the futuristic intrigue of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash mixed with the suspense and high stakes of P.K. Dick's Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?). Such is the magic Lee Baldwin works in Savage Genesis Book One – Rescue and Asylum.
A Unique Novel of First Contact
ARCHAEOLOGIST ANNA LEWIS extracts coded messages from a pre-Columbian sculpture, disclosing that Earth is the failed colony of an ancient galactic race.
Failed colony? Humanity will not be amused.
A thought-provoking page turner... sketches a far future for humanity in a post biological era... a galactic species that sees material existence as the smallest part of all there is.
ANNA RIDES A SUBTERRANEAN WORMHOLE to the other side of the galaxy, struggling to understand she's been conscripted into an interplanetary rescue mission by humanity's cousins. Cousins??? Anna and two million captive women are bound for alien assimilation.
Feisty, contradictory Anna will not simply accept what she is told. But the knowledge from those ancient beings is so overwhelming she doubts that the societies of Earth can accept what she must tell them.
If she keeps quiet, humanity will miss out on life-affirming knowledge from the very center of creation itself. But if she shares what she has discovered, there are men who would gladly see her die. Even if it dooms the Earth as well.
An intriguing and dangerous tale of first alien contact.
Powerfully intimate and inventive - imagination blazes through the pages of this novel which unveils an alien world that's peaceful on the surface yet which masks a savage past.
ANNA SUSPECTS THAT LIFE ON EARTH developed through underground microbes, because these hardy and secluded critters were best able to survive harsh conditions such as vulcanism, tectonic shifts, and millennia of meteorite bombardments.
Anna knows that intelligent life could have appeared in our galaxy 13 billion years ago, long before Earth’s formation. Could such a species have visited an infant Earth? Could they have planted microbes in the deepest rocks with designer DNA to evolve Earth life into beings like them? Could humanity therefore be the cousins of those aliens who visited Earth in the distant past?
If that is true, then where is that species today? Could they have progressed from biological life as we know it into a post-biological existence with cybernetic and mechanical parts that are not assembled, but grown in the living body?
If that's the case, could we detect them at all, or might they be ever hidden from us?
What Early Readers are Saying:
Well-crafted and gripping. Excellent... Absolutely hooked me... a brilliantly twisted mind which produced a true gem of a book. K.Damas, Goodreads Reviewer
Baldwin's prose is punchy and laced with wit, especially in the edgy banter between feisty Anna and antagonists Gonzalo Sandoval and Carl Mumford... language is streamlined... characters hit all of the right notes: Anna is appealingly feisty in her interactions with male colleagues and appropriately wary of the professed beneficence of the Cuz of Thiele. - Booklife LLC and PWxyz LLC
Sketches a far future for humanity, a post-biological era of combined cybernetics and biology in a manner that is completely plausible.- Betty, Amazon Reviewer
The writing is delicious and fast-paced... women's fiction, because the plot turns on the values of two lifelong friends at the mercy of the patriarchy.
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