LikeJames Cagney, I'm a real Yankee Doodle Dandy, born in Kingsport,Tennessee on the Fourth of July. Every year since, I've enjoyed thefireworks displays all over the United States that take place on mybirthday. As the picture shows, my major pursuit in life, other thanadding letters after my name, including B.S., M.S. and Ph.D., seemsto be the ongoing quest for the always elusive "just-right"classic car which currently is the restoration of a 1966 JaguarE-Type coupe, but in the past has ranged from a 1941 Cadillac to a1961 Ferrari. Over the years, I've worked at a great variety of jobsranging from bus boy to university professor at Emory University'sOxford College, Southern Arkansas University and James MadisonUniversity. I've also worked as a motel clerk, exploration geologist,photographer, door-to-door salesman, newspaper columnist, landsurveyor, civil engineer, truck driver and meteorologist. Mywritings, including science articles, adventure articles, cararticles and short fiction, have appeared in such varied formats asprofessional science journals, newspapers, literary journals andhistory journals. I've completed two other novels, Last Lion ofSparta and BloodScourge, both to be availablelater this year. Certainly my greatest accomplishment,however, was marrying Elizabeth Hill in 1971. We live in the SouthCarolina foothills of the southern Appalachian Mountains have threesons, Gene D. III, an attorney in the Washington DC area, John Peter,Director of Marketing at a chain of retirements homes in Virginia andWilliam B., an information technology specialist on active duty inthe U.S. Navy.
<p>Sayetta is an archangel who has been sent into the physical world to seek out eight archangels who have been reborn into the world. She knows that she cannot do it in the form of an angel so she takes on a human form to move through among us in the physical world. Gabe a mortal has the soul of a warrior angel. He is reborn in physical form to prepare for her coming. He is born with abilities that he is unaware he has.</p><p>All of his life Gabe had been having dreams of a ruined church. He never knew the name of the church, but the dream was always the same. In the dream, he was standing facing the ruins of the church. But he didn’t look like a human. Instead, he was an angel with pure white wings and a golden countenance. Another much larger angel appeared to him. The angel pointed towards what was left of the door and said “Enter, your journey has just begun and your guide awaits you.</p><p>Sayetta finds out from Archangel Michael that Lucifer has sent an old demon to find and stop Auriel from removing the demons he has imprisoned in the earth.</p><p>They receive a little help from the Archangels Azuriel and Gabriel as they journey to locate Auriel. It’s a race to find Auriel before the demon does. In the end, it’s a battle between two powerful beings, one good and one evil.</p>
One of my favorite quotations is from Buckminster Fuller: "Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either way, the thought is staggering." It's a thought I fully agree with. I am of the opinion that most novels dealing with the existence of ETI treat the possibility in far too casually a manner. That's why I wrote Indistinguishable from God. I wanted to show one possible scenario of how the discovery of a genuine alien artifact could impact the major institutions of society. I think such a discovery might be the most profound event in all of human history. Have you ever wondered why, with all the claims of UFOs and contact with ETs, no one has ever submitted a real alien artifact? No, not a single one, not even the tiniest sliver. Wait, what's that I hear some of you saying? Such artifacts exist, only scientists refuse to recognize them, or the government hides them. I am aware of several objects people have claimed to be alien artifacts that were submitted for scientific tests. Always, every single one of them, without exception, turned out to be completely mundane objects of ordinary earthly materials. Why hasn't there been something far beyond our ability to explain, or even some exotic alloy, unknown on earth? Surely beings capable of traveling between star systems must have such materials. As a scientist, I say show me something like that, something we couldn't easily manufacture on earth, and I'll take your UFO claim seriously. As Carl Sagan was fond of saying, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." I also wrote this book to show how real science gets done. What sort of tests would be used? What sort of proof would be required? Real scientists are skeptics. They are not in the business of proving theories true. There real work is trying find the flaws in a theory, to disprove theories. That is exactly how the main character in this book proceeds. Does this mean the book has to be slow moving? Not at all. Read the comments from other science fiction authors, some of them also scientists. Give the book a chance and I think you'll find it to be well worth the price and your time.
<p class="PreformattedText"></p><p class="PreformattedText"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">“</span></strong><strong><em><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">...</span></em></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';"> a fast-paced scientific thriller that explores how a world-shattering discovery would challenge not just existing beliefs, but also the power structures of our society</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">.”—<em>Jame<span>s T. Downey,</span></em> <em>author of Communion of Dreams</em></span></strong></p> <p class="PreformattedText"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">“</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">...an enticing beginning which instantly drew me in. There is drama, action, romance, and adventure, making this a very enjoyable story<span>.”<em>—James Jackson, author of First Contact</em></span></span></strong><strong><em><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">.</span></em></strong></p> <pre><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">“...</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">a fascinating first-rate novel about how science really works, with believable and very human characters. Highly recommend it to everyone, even those who normally would not purchase novels in the science fiction genre will find this book a good read and worthy of their time<span>.”<em>—Joseph Vadalma</em></span></span></strong><strong><em><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">, author of The Artifact, A Novel of Alien Contact</span></em></strong></pre> <p class="PreformattedText"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">“</span></strong><strong><em><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">...</span></em></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">a fast paced, one of a kind Sci-Fi suspense thriller.<span> </span>The tension builds from page one, and never lets up as evidence mounts that an object discovered in rock could be the most important discovery of all time.<span> </span>A must read</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">.”—<em>Karl Bozicevic, author of Cardinal Hoax</em></span></strong></p> <p class="PreformattedText"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">“</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">...a thrill ride with more twists and turns than a Möbius strip with a surprise ending.”—<em>Ronald W Hull, author of The Kaleidoscope Effect and Alone?</em></span></strong></p> <pre><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">“</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">...so captivating you don´t want to put the book down for a second.<span>”</span> <em>Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Professor of Astrobiology and author of Voids of Eternity: Alien Encounter</em></span></strong></pre><pre><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">“...</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';">an entertaining stew of a thriller that, once you start, you pretty much have to finish.<span> ”</span>—<em>Al Past, author of the Distant Cousin series</em></span></strong></pre><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Iskoola Pota', 'sans-serif';"></span></strong>