Eden's Planet The Characters

Pangaea: Eden’s Planet

The Characters

Characters

Colonel Evelyn Peterson, before choosing a career as a pilot, majored in geology. She had dreamed of going to the stars from a young age, and her meteoric rise in rank as a fighter pilot and commander, gave her the opportunity to command this mission. If successful, she would return to Earth with the rank of general.

Major Adam Cooper is an open book, no mysteries. The same as Sheri, he’s seeking adventure, excitement, maybe a little bit of danger. He likes to throw a few parties, and has been known to swing the girls around a dance floor a time or two. He had studied paleontology at the university before becoming a pilot.

Captain Tony Mercer is the navigator. He has a hidden death wish. NASA needed a navigator, and Tony was the best. As far as NASA was concerned, they didn't want to pry into any secrets. He was wounded in the war, but never mentions it.

Professor Carl Plymouth holds degrees in astronomy and meteorology, as well as mathematics and a few other sciences most of us never heard of. He has assisted NASA for the last ten years in their study of the Martian atmosphere, and studied every storm that's been spotted on the red planet. He also lost a son in the war.

Doctor Terril taught medicine at the university where Professor Plymouth also taught. They both went to NASA when the call came. She is a mystery. Beneath that stern expression is one of the keenest minds in the medical field. She could head any major hospital of her choosing, or have a successful practice in a major city, and keep a bank account that would choke a horse. Yet she devoted her time to teaching medicine at the university, until volunteering for the mission to Mars. She is also a microbiologist, and had been doing private research for years.

Sheri Thompson has a brilliant mind—her specialty is zoology—she seeks the unknown, the adventure in life. Maybe even the excitement—and danger. She has studied every living organism on Earth, and is anxious to look under a few red rocks on Mars now. Personally, she also likes to dance and throw a few parties. Sheri will bring some bright spots to a lonely assignment.

Roger Manning, the civilian engineer, is looking for God. He's a fine engineer, the best in his field. He can fix any machine, given time, or figure out what's wrong with it. But being a Christian, the war almost destroyed his faith. With half the world wiped out, and billions of people killed, he couldn't understand why God hadn't intervened.

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“A Romance, 250 Million Years In The Making.”

Seven astronauts en route to Mars encounter a time warp in space that disables their ship. Crash landing on Earth, they discover an alien planet sixty million years before the dinosaurs. Pangaea, the super continent, is filled with danger and terror, as they must survive against fierce reptiles that ruled the Earth 250 million years in the past!

Eden's Planet Concept

Pangaea: Eden’s Planet

Pangaea: Eden’s Planet was a concept I came up with several years ago while looking for a possible book proposal to submit to Hollywood Studios. Yes, I’ve submitted several proposals without success yet, but I keep trying. I’ve actually gone through two agents that were not hungry enough to sell my books to Hollywood. Basically, Pangaea: Eden’s Planet is a character-driven novel and focuses on seven astronauts on a mission to Mars to begin a terra-farming project after a nuclear war on Earth. But problems arise when they enter a space anomaly that disables their ship, sending them back in time. The planet’s gravity pulls them back to Earth, where they crash land on an alien world 250 million years in the past. Their mission now turns into a survival situation, as fierce reptiles of the Permian Period, as well as explosive nature, endangers their very lives.

The seven astronauts are scientists in special fields that will be needed to fulfill their mission on Mars. This includes Colonel Evelyn Peterson and Major Adam Cooper, the pilots of Galileo Two; Colonel Peterson is the leader of the mission, the major is her second in command.  I gave each character individual personalities. The subplot was a romance building between Peterson and Cooper. When I first conceived the story, Evelyn was black and Cooper white, which I figured would be one of the problems keeping them apart, but later I changed my mind about pursuing this element of the story, and dropped all reference to her race. After all, her responsibility of keeping those under her command alive in a harsh environment is concern enough. Besides, in the 21^st Century race should no longer be a stumbling block to romance.

My love of biology and study of paleontology and other zoological areas of science has always been a driving force in my writing. In Pangaea: Eden’s Planet, I fill my world with known creatures from the period, as well as a few from my own imagination. Sixty million years before the dawn of the dinosaurs, there were still predators as menacing as T-Rex. Colonel Peterson and Major Cooper were the only ones armed, and that consisted of small caliber pistols, each holding 15-round clips of ammunitions, and they were faced by incredible odds. Their survival would require ingenuity and fearlessness. We have seven people alone in a world of fierce reptiles, volcanic activity, and danger from the heavens.  But yet love will also find a way.

Readers that enjoy a story with action and danger, with a light touch of romantic tease will find Pangaea: Eden’s Planet a work of fiction both entertaining and, hopefully, memorable. There is drama and humor as the characters face each situation, good and bad, with the knowledge that life or death could be ahead of them. Their survival may depend on their next action. You will find laughter at times, and cry at others, but I believe you will come to know and love the characters, whatever their faults might be. Happy reading.

Bewitching Blog Tours & The Book Cave

Bewitching Blog Tours http://www.bewitchingbooktours.com will be hosting me during my book release of PANGAEA: EDEN’S PLANET, from FIRST REALM PUBLISHING the week of June 23^rd through June 30^th. I will update the information as I know more. I am also scheduled to tape an interview on THE BOOK CAVE on June 15^th, to air June 19^th. You can tune in to the Podcast throughout the week here http://thebookcave.libsyn.com/webpage I will be discussing the book and characters, and probably go off on a few tangents about paleontology, dinosaurs, and ancient reptiles. It should be fun so don’t miss it. I will also take pictures of the Whiteside Museum of Natural History that opens on June 7^th in Seymour, Texas. Seymour is the home of the Seymouria, a Permian reptile/amphibian that was discovered in the Craddock Redbeds in the early twentieth century and named after the town. Dr. Robert Bakker has discovered many Permian fossils during his Dig at the Site. The museum will feature fossils of Permian life as well as dinosaurs and mammals from other periods in our past. June is going to be an exciting month.

Pangaea: Eden's Planet

This is the story that truly begins the Jur series. It is here where the Ancient Ones originate, during the Permian Period, 60 million years before the Jurassic and dinosaurs. Pulp adventure returns to science fiction in “Pangaea: Eden’s Planet”.

Seven astronauts en route to Mars encounter a time warp in space that disables their ship. Crash landing on Earth, they discover an alien planet sixty million years before the dinosaurs. Pangaea, the super continent, is filled with danger and terror, as they must survive against fierce reptiles that ruled the Earth 250 million years in the past!

Available for $2.99 on Kindle, and print for $13.50 from the author at fadingshadows40@gmail.com