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Earth Encounters The Arrival

by Lawrence T. Walker

A future-born arrival meets American history

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A future-born arrival meets American history

In this young adult graphic novel, visitors from 30,000 years ahead come to Earth to confront MicroV, a creature that consumes the knowledge of intelligent species. Their arrival also carries a charged historical dimension: the visitors were once enslaved or oppressed people from America’s past, linking their future identities to the country’s ancestors and descendants. The political response unfolds alongside scientific questions, with an African American president, astrophysicist parents, and their children drawn into events surrounding unusual activity between Mars and Jupiter. The story brings speculative threats together with questions of representation, historical memory, and who is treated as a threat.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in science-fiction graphic novels.
  • Readers drawn to stories connecting speculative futures with African American and other marginalized histories.
  • Those interested in political conflict alongside space and science themes.

Themes

Science fiction and extraterrestrial threatsHistorical memory and oppressionRace and political representationScience, politics, and truth

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Book overview

Powerful superhumans have arrived from 30,000 years in the distant future. They have come to save the Earth's inhabitants from the terror of the galaxy: MicroV, an invisible, virus-like creature that has escaped the future into our time. It feeds on the knowledge of intelligent species, a destroyer of Worlds.

How will a large segment of America react after learning the superhumans from the future were once enslaved and oppressed African Americans, Indigenous peoples, Asian Americans, abolitionists, and Radical Republicans from America's past, thus, our ancestors and our descendants? They would be considered a threat to their vision of America.

 

America will experience the awe that 30,000 years will create and be amazed by the "Seven Towers," from which visitors from the future will unveil undiscovered young heroes among us as a gift to Earth.

 

Politics and science intertwine, generating a clash between truth and deception. America's first female African American President's efforts to partner with scientists to manage the arrival of superhumans from space are met with hostility from the opposing party.

 

A young African American couple, PhDs in astrophysics and cosmology, are drawn into the rapidly growing suspense after one is invited to the White House to share their knowledge of unusual occurrences between Mars and Jupiter. One of their three exceptional children, Khalid, suddenly develops powers beyond those of other kids in middle school, and knows he's being watched from space.

 

The first novel, graphic novel, movie, or TV series with a storyline about a future America led by African Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, and white Americans who believe in "E PLURIBUS UNUM" until now.

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