Travelers Rest

See also: www.travelersrestnovel.com Order from the publisher FREE USPS shipping and in stock: Liveware Publishing Store 40 page excerpt: Click here Amazon reader reviews: Click here Travelers Rest is also available through Amazon, bn.com and other on-line retailers. In early 2014, people throughout the world learn of a radio signal coming from a non-human intelligence in space. The Travelers, as we name them, transmit just a series of integers: 1-8-1-8-6-8. Experts and laypeople speculate about what the message and the existence of another intelligent race in the galaxy means. Fate launches Dr. Philip Matheson, a Sociology professor, onto center-stage as he helps to decode the Travelers' message, which turns out to be a distress signal. But Earth has problems of its own, as rising sea level threatens coastal cities around the world, and Earth does not have the technology to help the Travelers receive what they need. Can Earth help the Travelers? Should we? Will we? These intriguing questions produce answers more astounding than anyone could expect. Travelers Rest is a work of social science fiction told from a historical perspective in a non-fiction style. The narrative uses Professor Matheson's public and private journal entries, published papers and articles, secret and leaked government documents, and transcripts of media coverage of events. The reader also gets to view the Travelers' socie