Written by international Award Winner Deepak Menon, Skymerge is a sweeping well researched novel of the opening up of Space, spanning 5 Planets including Earth, and a planet named Rukana where a major portion of the events comprising this amazing novel occur.
There are many heroes in this book and many heroines, each unforgettable, yet with a unique personality distinctly different from any other protagonist in this book, or any other in its genre. The book begins with a shattering prologue reminiscent of medieval times on Earth, yet relating to another planet.
The story starts with the discovery of a scroll and a bracelet in a remote desert location in Africa, actually found in a geological layer dated a million years ago, before mankind manifested in its present form as a sentient species. This seems impossible unless the artifacts are of extraterrestrial origin.
Alternating the chapters between Earth and other Planets, the story is skillfully built into a cohesive whole, bringing with it glimpses of different cultures, battles, and a war, as also a very human touch of love, affection, courage and wide ranging vision amongst the characters.
Inevitably the story builds up to "Contact" with the Aliens from the alien planet situated Light Years away, yet the conceptualization is so well interwoven with the Laws of Physics & Nature that the reader can not entirely discount that the hard core science fiction concepts in Skymerge, retain a miniscule element of plausibility, which is what this book is all about! It successfully explores the outermost boundaries of physical constraints with the message that what may be fiction today, may be the facts of tomorrow.
Skymerge succeeds in effectively delivering a gripping adventure story based on hardcore astrophysics and astronomy to the layman, without straying too far into the realm of pure fantasy.
The Story Behind This Book
For long has the mystery remained - will mankind ever be able to undertake interstellar travel without violating the Physical Constraints like the light velocity constraints, time dilation, infinite force required. Skymerge recognises that at some time in Mankind's journey of evolution, he will have to leave the Earth - the dangers of Global Warming is evident and soon will be out of control. Skymerge explores and achieves the status of a very plausible way by which mankind will travel to the stars and reach there within his life time, whilst narrating a great tale of adventure with well researched scientific thought as well as a touch of romance and interaction with alien species as well as explores the very genomes of life on Earth and the Galaxy.