Down to Earth
KEMoore
About the Novel
Synopsis
Physicists Dr. Warren “Stan” Stanley and Anil Kongovi have created spherical devices capable of detecting dark matter. A year after testing their prototype in the foothills of the Transantarctic Mountains, Stan returns with his team to continue the work. Anil takes his team to a remote desert outpost.
Stan’s husky Skylar disappeared from their Antarctic camp the year before—and so did Stan when he went searching for her. He found Skylar curled up and exhausted at their prototype test site. Unknown to Stan, something opposed indiscriminate extinction was there. It knew that the extinction of all life dependent on Earth would be certain in almost exactly one year. But, at this epoch of Earth at least, humanity was Earth’s dominant intelligence. It was not significantly more discerning in its treatment of life than the approaching aggressor that would destroy them—and showed a similar lack of discernment.
Skylar had unwittingly given humanity a second chance simply by being herself. But canines—not even huskies—seemed to have that much influence on human behavioral evolution where it counted most, given what was at stake. And now, the year had passed. As Stan’s team returned to Antarctica, nothing about humanity justified the destruction of one aggressor over the other. Time was up.
As Stan and Anil’s teams set out toward their separate outposts, only hours remain before the aggressor sweeps across Earth at half the speed of light—sustained and propelled by a state of existence most physicists have never considered.
Sometimes, it’s just best to let evolution take its course. But the action of capable intelligence is itself part of that evolving process that divines the potential of our universe. For Earth, to be or not to be anymore would not be a random occurrence.
What’s divinely important can be ever so subtle, even when we live around it all the days of our lives.
Manuscript History
The first draft of Down to Earth was completed on March 3, 2014, only three months after the writing began. Editing happened in long intervals, sometimes months apart, but the story itself never changed. Names shifted, descriptions sharpened, and the distortions and allied “robots” evolved more fully realized, yet the original story and arc remained intact.
After several independent reviews, the manuscript was submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office in 2017. Over the following years, the author revisited the work repeatedly, strengthening the technical and conceptual foundations of the distortions and the allies that utilized the functionality of Japanese lunar construction robots. And giving himself needed time to include the subtle meanings within a story that made Down to Earth button tight complete.
Initial reviewers from various cultures shared their experiences from aerospace, survival, military, construction, and large‑scale notional and real projects.
Down to Earth will be released December 2026 in paperback, hardcover, and Kindle formats through KDP with all rights retained. The sequel is now underway — and yes, a husky is involved.