Dansplaining PARADOX Anticipated completion, mid-2024
PARADOX; noun /ˈparədɒks/
A seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which, when investigated, may prove to be well founded or true.
Thanks to Google and Oxford Languages Dictionary
April 2024 update of PARADOX:
The story begins in Seattle, where Professor Aaron Sawyer meets with an untimely death in a residential fire apparently caused by a short-circuited battery charger plugged into his e-scooter. One of his best friends, Dr Jordan Wheeler, is a geologist-astronaut assigned to Shackleton Outpost, a small research colony near the lunar south pole. During a surface excursion one day, Wheeler and his team find an out-of-place space probe they cannot identify as being from any know source on Earth. Even more curious, the probe had no visible signs of being a landing craft, just an old "Explorer-type" satellite.
My next novel is in the third edit now, so I'm getting closer to finishing it. With any luck, PARADOX will be published by early June, I hope. Why PARADOX, I hear you ask. I'm starting out with a simple question: 'How can Homo sapiens be so intelligent and yet seemingly incapable of choosing not to go extinct of our own accord?
Wheeler begins his investigate into the origin of the mysterious object, when a group of new astronauts arrive from Earth. One of these newbies is noted GNN investigative report, Whitney Wainwright, on assignment to do a documentary about life at Shackleton Outpost. No sooner does Whitney settle into her new assignment than she quickly discovers that her Moon-Earth communications are being monitored and that family and friends back on Earth are being watched…
Stay tuned for more updates…
