Back to Eternity

This is the story of Ruben, a small town pastor on a mission to evangelize another galaxy, the inhabitants of which have placed science and technology on a pedestal and worshiped it as god. At the heart of the Messier Galaxy is Ocean, a princess in her own right, she embodies the qualities of a woman who knows her identity and her purpose. Stuck in her atheistic society, she dreams there is something more than the dreary perfection that surrounds her.

This is the story of Ruben, a small town pastor on a mission to evangelize another galaxy, the inhabitants of which have placed science and technology on a pedestal and worshiped it as god. At the heart of the Messier Galaxy is Ocean, a princess in her own right, she embodies the qualities of a woman who knows her identity and her purpose. Stuck in her atheistic society, she dreams there is something more than the dreary perfection that surrounds her. Through luck or fate, mankind finds a way to bridge the impenetrable wall of faster than light travel. Now a team representing earth’s major religions, along with the head security officer and his family, brave the 55 million light year expanse and journey to the home of Mandaria When they arrive, they find a race not unlike themselves physiologically, but there the similarity ends. Not all of Mandaria is eager to accept the people from earth, in fact, there is a political cult thriving beneath the surface that has been trying to keep humans from discovering them for a long time. Once Ruben and the people he came with begin integrating into society, they each take different paths and approaches to how they will live their lives in Mandaria. Meanwhile some troublesome teenagers decide to play the ultimate practical joke on the people from earth. Whether they help or hinder the progress of the new found relationship is a mystery, but the teens are spoiled rich kids, who learn a hard lesson in humility. Mandaria has it’s faults, one of which is a perfectly created race born from DNA that has rapidly evolved to outmatch their creators. Within ten generations, the Clan race has developed superior starships and advanced Artificial Intelligence life forms that will shape the future of the entire Universe. Power struggles behind the scenes finally erupt in a galactic civil war that threatens society or promises to deliver the two races from a past that is not as separate as one might think. In the end, can Ruben and Ocean save both their societies, or will they all die in a final battle that seals their fate forever?

I am an unpublished author with one other completed manuscript and this book which i wrote five years ago. I have decided, due to no replies from any agents, to self publish. In fact, publishing is as hard as writing. I am excited to use book baby and see where my future leads. I'm 49 years old, an old school science fiction guy who cut his teeth on Asimov and Bradbury, but I have a strong interest in young people and identity, There is one person who I am writing this story for. She is the lonely girl who doesn’t believe she has what it takes to persevere in this world because of what she has been through or endured. But she can see through the wonder of it all, through the majestic truth humans are destined to reach the stars some day, that she can rise above her circumstances and grab hold of something so much greater. Inside of her is hidden an identity forged by a master craftsman that is dying, fighting, and begging to be liberated. Then there is the other one, a mixed up boy who thinks only of himself. Maybe he let honor and integrity fall by the wayside as he struggles to discover if he has what it takes. But there will come a point in his life when he realizes, relationships are the key to his destiny, and honor is all that is left in the end. Then he will rise up, slay the dragon, and answer that age old question, do have what it takes?