The Ceph - Reborn: A novel of Uplift and First Contact
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The Ceph: Reborn
An ancient galactic civilization rises again on Earth. How we treat their reborn colony will forge our fate. Will we rise to the challenge, or die?
The Ceph Civilization seeded the galaxy's planets with life throughout history.
Two of the great World-Ships arrived from the Civilization sixty-five million years ago to deliver the Ceph to their new Colony. They were gone a thousand years when the asteroid struck.
The surface of the planet was seared and shattered. Survivors of the Colony adapted to any safety the broken planet’s oceans would offer. They lost the ability to walk the land and breathe the air.
Nothing sleeps forever. The Ceph on Earth are Reborn, and they have called for help.
Humans on Earth don't know we share this world yet. We only have a short time to learn this unsettling fact and be amicable neighbors. Humans and the Ceph can coexist with massive benefits for both races. We're related, after all. The alternative will have severe consequences for every human on Earth.
We must build this relationship. It will take an Alliance of unlikely people with an extraordinary plan. Stella Uren, Captain of the fishing and dive boat Money Shot and her Crew are partnered with Bright, the Octopus Matriarch of the Colony.
Together with the immortal hive-mind of the Ansible Network, they make a powerful, if unconventional, team.
This Alliance will have to walk a fine line threaded through potential catastrophe to reach their goal of integrating the Colony with human society before the Swimmer in Relativity, the new World-Ship arrives.
Balancing on that line will be tough, no matter how many legs you have.
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Matthew lives in the beautiful country of New Zealand in the best of provinces, Taranaki. He is happily married for coming up on three decades and his two daughters are grown and gone now, successful in their own right.
Matthew is a person that goes through life with a Plan A, Plan B, and a Plan C at all times. It has saved him from any number of disasters!
Amongst his careers he has been an American Paratrooper, an IT Technician, a Business owner (three times), a New Zealand trained Primary School Teacher and now works as a Technical Specialist. Being an Author is "Plan D" for Retirement.
He is a Medieval Re-enactor and a Western Martial Arts teacher with some forty years experience in various martial arts. As for wisdom, consult the Notebooks of Lazarus Long.
A fervent love for Science Fiction has been life-long, and it is this that led him to writing books for other people to enjoy.
