cover image The Root of Heaven and Earth

The Root of Heaven and Earth

E.A. Grace. Ethosphere Press, $19.99 paper (888p) ISBN 978-1-938960-68-0

Grace's weighty but fascinating tome boasts sympathetic characters that humanize its abundant philosophical and scientific ideas. In the year 2136, physicist Paul Rockwell is accidentally transported to an alternative world that%E2%80%94unlike his own%E2%80%94is uncorrupted by a domineering corporate government. There, Paul stumbles upon Memories & Reflections, a book by anthropologist Indira Kumar, whose marriage of holistic belief and science saved her world from a future full of ignorance and greed. Embarking on a pilgrimage to the Kumaric Retreat, Paul struggles to redeem his world's grim future from the past. This New Age speculative thriller squeezes lifetimes of thought into a gripping narrative. Paul is a thinking man's John Carter, battling quantum theories instead of monsters. Full of heady discussions of physics, relativity, and sentient energy, Grace's novel will appeal to fans of the genre.