From A Distant Planet To Ours

By Andrew Kneier

The protagonist in this story runs smack into the gut-wrenching dilemma we'd all be facing if we were in his shoes. Suppose we were immortal spirits and yet felt called to embrace the mortality of human existence after discovering what it had to offer? This is precisely the dilemma our protagonist encounters as he visits Earth as an immortal being from a distant planet, a planet that happens to be in serious trouble because its sun could soon explode as a supernova. The elders there have devised a plan to relocate everyone to Earth, the chosen replacement planet. Our protagonist is here on a trial run, mainly to see what the human condition is like. Well, it turns out to be a can of worms. First he meets Lily, the engaging seven-year-old who becomes the heroine of our story. Later he falls in love with her mother, Maria. Here's the problem: his love for these two beckons him to be mortal like they are, although he is supposed to return to his home planet to resume his immortal nature. He finds that being in the same boat with them makes them matter in ways they otherwise would not. That seems to be what love does. An additional drama involves the fact that he needed to occupy a human body for his sojourn to Earth, a body that happened to be Maria's recently-deceased husband. When Maria meets him, he appears to be her husband, of course, and he must somehow convince her otherwise. You can judge whether he succeeds in this impossible task. Mainly though, it proves to be Lily that binds him to Earth and the mortality that rules there.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F3RTHJBK
• ISBN13: 9798316542376
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"