First Communication: Book I (Nelta Series) - Softcover

J.P. Osterman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615975089 ISBN 13: 9780615975085

Publisher: JP Osterman.com, 2014

Synopsis

Today is Monday, August 23, 2060, and humanity is threatened by an extinction-level event. A mysterious opening appears in the atmosphere. People panic! What is this strange phenomenon? Some kind of reply to Thornton Manning’s massive cosmic cry for help into the universe? The atmospheric disturbance appears as a hurricane with a silver lining--a window! “I’m beginning to believe this is a real alien contact…a first communication,” Dr. Elisa Holton says. After the signal is confirmed by scientists, our global leader, Regent Thornton Manning, prepares to greet aliens. Everyone wonders: “Can this advanced species from Nelta heal Earth? If so, what might they demand in return?” Thornton, now a hero, has plans for the alien technology—not completely legal under the new United Earth Constitution. It’s often said: “New technology invites new dilemmas.” Humanity begins to experience rapid radical changes! Elisa Holton is a genius researcher in the new burgeoning field of Nano-Robotics and Genetics. Thornton makes her famous, but he faces exposure with all her knowledge. Not everyone trusts the Global Regency government, and some people are still just bent on hating… The terrorists begin hiding off-Earth, and a new group of protestors begin a covert mission of sabotaging popular technology. When attacks from these two foes threaten the vital help we need from the Neltans, Thornton asks Elisa for help, and orders an elite crew of spacecraft fighters to crush the opposition before our communications link with the Neltans collapses. It’s a race against time as humanity struggles to seal a special Pact... The Nelta Series begins!

About this title

About the Author

J.P. Osterman was born December 21, in East Chicago, Indiana 

Writing Career: As a serious Science Fiction author focused on future space travel, J.P. Osterman became an Independent Research Scientist studying the laws that govern space and issues relating to space travel, exploration, and colonization of Mars and exoplanets.  In addition to the physics of long distance space travel, J.P. studied the necessary computational theories to control of the physics of space travel and extreme time/space compression: optical quantum computing, quantum communication, and AI Computer intelligence reaching well beyond the "Singularity," with organic, quantum-level, human neural interface and exchange (NIE).

J.P. Osterman was a reader and writer throughout her youth.  She graduated from University of San Diego with a B.A. in English (with an emphasis in writing) and later a Master's degree from Azusa Pacific University.  In the early 1990s, she met Ray Bradbury who inspired her to write science fiction.  "I felt that something strange and wonderful had happened to me because of my encounter with Mr. Bradbury, he gave me a future...I began to write every day."   
She has written seven novels, mostly science fiction: from exploring Mars, to spacefolding to an ancient alien world.  She has won several awards, including the prestigious Rupert Hughes Award at the seminal Maui Writers Conference for her sci-fi novel, The Matter Stream, which she is transforming into her Nelta Series of novels.  She won First Place for her play, The Man Next to Me that was subsequently published in the San Diego Writer's Monthly magazine.

Edition details

• Publisher: JP Osterman.com
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615975089
• ISBN 13: 9780615975085
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432