The Cocoon Trilogy Omnibus by David Saperstein (#1-3)
Requirements: ePUB Reader, 945 kB
Overview: This omnibus edition contains all three books of the Cocoon trilogy. Cocoon, which became an instant NY Times Best-Seller, was soon followed by a successful, globally-distributed motion picture of the same name. Book II, Metamorphosis: The Cocoon Story Continues, which begins five years after Book I ends was also a successful novel. Book III, Butterfly: Tomorrow’s Children, which begins fifteen years later has not been published until now. The Trilogy spans twenty years and this is the first time that it is available for readers in its entirety.
Genre: Science Fiction
#1. Cocoon
Fifteen years before the start of the Earth’s third Christian millennium and after a five-thousand-year absence, Antarean space travelers have returned to Earth. They find that only a few islands remain of Earth’s continents above the waters of the Atlantic, after the impact of an asteroid. Five thousand years ago, before the asteroid’s impact could destroy Antares Quad-Three, they had cocooned and secreted a diplomatic army for future use on Earth. They believed that these soldiers and commanders, numbering 941, were secure and safe in a state of suspended animation beneath the sea floor. However, the returning Antareans discover that pollution and ultraviolet radiation have adversely affected the cocoons, making the life the cocoons held partially damaged and dangerously vulnerable. Complicating the matter, the Antarean returnees are discovered by a small group of retired humans. The seniors ultimately offer to help the Antareans reseal their damaged cocoons and return them to their underwater chamber, saving the diplomatic army to be revived and awakened in the future. To show their gratitude, the Antarean leaders invite their aged helpers to join them on their Mothership, and thus become Earth’s first deep space travelers. They called themselves the Geriatric Brigade.
#2. Metamorphosis: The Cocoon Story Continues
Five years after the Geriatric Brigade’s departure from Earth, a new generation Antarean Mothership has returned. The crew, made up of Antareans and Brigade members, is on a dual mission to extract the sleeping cocooned Antarean army and deliver a wondrous cargo, which includes twenty-two pregnant Brigade female “seniors” and one young pregnant Penditan bride to give birth on Earth. The physical processing that prepared the Geriatric Brigade for deep space travel has stopped, and then slowly reversed, the physiological mechanics of human aging. Among deep space travelers there exists one overriding directive regarding the birth of interplanetary offspring, especially those of a “mixed mating.” This directive requires that these Brigade mothers-to-be return to Earth to give birth. While the cocooned Antarean army is extracted from their secret underwater chamber, the children of the Geriatric Brigade are born. Even as infants, it is clear that the children of the Geriatric Brigade have evolved—a new race possessing new and extraordinary powers. But how these wondrous gifts will affect these children, and their future, is still unknown.
#3. Butterfly: Tomorrow’s Children
More than fifteen years have passed since the children of the Geriatric Brigade were born and left behind on Earth and now the Third Christian Millennium has begun. The children have been secreted, protected, nourished, educated, and loved at Butterfly House, a private compound on Cayman Brac in the Caribbean—the smallest and most remote of the Cayman Islands. Aside from their guardians, teachers, and a few trusted people, no one else on Earth knows of their existence. Most of those who helped in their births believe the children left with their parents on the Antarean Mothership, and of those who know where they live, only a few suspect how very special and talented these children are or what their potential might be. To the Brigade, the chance to leave Earth and enter the realm of deep space travel occurred by chance—an accident of time and place. "But was it an accident?," the Brigade’s commanders wondered. The Antareans’ simple answer was: "Nothing in the Master’s Plan is accidental." If the children of Butterfly House were to leave their home planet and if they had no contact with Earth again, what might future Earth-human space travelers find in millennia from now? Would the Brigade still exist? Would their offspring and generations beyond have joined the Brigade? The children of Butterfly House know the answers, and the Universe is about to find out.
Download Instructions:
http://gestyy.com/wZsVyk
Mirror:
http://gestyy.com/wZsVyS
