The Root of Heaven and Earth

Grace's weighty but fascinating tome boasts sympathetic characters that humanize its abundant philosophical and scientific ideas. In the year 2136, physicist Paul Rockwell is accidentally transported to an alternative world that%E2%80%94unlike his own%E2%80%94is uncorrupted by a domineering corporate government. There, Paul stumbles upon Memories & Reflections, a book by anthropologist Indira Kumar, whose marriage of holistic belief and science saved her world from a future full of ignorance and greed. Embarking on a pilgrimage to the Kumaric Retreat, Paul struggles to redeem his world's grim future from the past. This New Age speculative thriller squeezes lifetimes of thought into a gripping narrative. Paul is a thinking man's John Carter, battling quantum theories instead of monsters. Full of heady discussions of physics, relativity, and sentient energy, Grace's novel will appeal to fans of the genre.