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The Great Return
About the author
Garth Hallberg has had a varied career as a naval officer, an advertising and marketing executive, a non-fiction author (All Consumers Are Not Created Equal, John Wiley & Sons, 1995), a globe-trotting consultant and lecturer, and a college professor (St. John’s Univ., New York).
He lives with his family in a small hamlet forty miles from New York, where they enjoy both the stimulation of the big city and the pleasures of the surrounding countryside. His approach to fiction is simple - “Write what you don’t know you know” - because writing a novel is not only a willful act of imagination but also a journey of discovery.
Garth Hallberg
The Grand Plan is an epic reimagining of the origin story of the birth of civilization, drawing on the ancient Sumerian legends and poems that predate the Bible by thousands of years and provide the earliest account of a universal flood.
The Great Return is the true-to-life story of America's recognition that extraterrestrials are visiting Earth and the speculation about what it might mean, as seen through the eyes of those 'visitors' who were first to arrive twelve thousand-plus years ago.
Follow the principal characters of The Grand Plan as they return to 'New Earth' at tthe dawn of the atomic age, now that their former Earth is no more, a casualty of runaway climate change and nuclear annihilation.
Read how the Absu's remaining staff and crew manage to blend in to an America that they fear is leading the world down the same path as their former home.
Learn how Nick discovers that they are not the only 'visitors' to the planet, and how he continues to search for answers about an overarching cosmic improvement program, a 'grand plan' that governs the universe.
