Description

The narrator, Uncle Wil's nephew, having attained a comfortable living in the mid 21st century, seeks to learn the origin of a very strange and wonderful object Uncle Wil discovered beside a flattened patch in his neighbor's pasture. He and his life partner, Riley, decide the origin must have been from an alien ship and set out across the North American Union to gather evidence. They are shadowed and helped and sometimes held back by the agents of a government who tracks the DNA of every person in the country. The investigation is punctuated by revelations to the reader of how the world has changed by the mid century and how people have adapted to it. There are new power sources, modes of transport, drugs, diets, and an upheaval in the Holy Roman Catholic Church to explore. The conclusion, set in Costa Rica, will answer many questions and raise many others.