The year is 2020. Humanity must find someplace else to live or face a centuries-old problem some began dealing with two centuries prior. Interplanetary explorer Alan Burston is on his third trip to find a new world, but the stakes are far more than he is aware of. For he is unaware that while he searches for information on the people who inhabit the world, they are using him to learn about us. A class reunion in 2010. A cave in 2031. A game show in 2052. A paranoid man in 2073. A doctor's office in 2094. An asteroid in 2115. A grocery store in 2036. An army platoon in 2057. A desert discovery in 2078. A prison in 2099. Every 21 years are another step toward discovery. It will be long after Alan returns to earth that he realizes that what is not discovered can be more important than what is discovered.
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