The Mission
On Sllth, a deadly plague has been progressively destroying all life. Their only hope is to emigrate to another world. Earth [Zapff to Sllthians] is close enough, but it is currently unsuitable. Sllthians, however, have a way of changing this.
Meanwhile, Douglas Nietzsche, a professor of American history, has immersed himself in alcohol and "speculative history" in an attempt to obliterate his anguish over a lost love. Thoroughly unheralded, his four controversial articles concern how tragic American history might have been, had it not been for certain key events and heroic individuals. One of his students, an exotic woman, has developed an unusual interest in these writings. As a forerunner of the Sllthian mission to Earth, she has selected these articles as working plans for the mission.
An unforeseen problem, however, proves the Mission to have been doomed from the start. When his student asks for help, she and Nietzsche try to stop the fruitless mission. Unfortunately, they are not completely successful. Many other Sllthians, unaware of what awaits them, are already in orbit around Zapff…waiting.
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The Mission
On Sllth, a deadly plague has been progressively destroying all life. Their only hope is to emigrate to another world. Earth [Zapff to Sllthians] is close enough, but it is currently unsuitable. Sllthians, however, have a way of changing this.
Meanwhile, Douglas Nietzsche, a professor of American history, has immersed himself in alcohol and "speculative history" in an attempt to obliterate his anguish over a lost love. Thoroughly unheralded, his four controversial articles concern how tragic American history might have been, had it not been for certain key events and heroic individuals. One of his students, an exotic woman, has developed an unusual interest in these writings. As a forerunner of the Sllthian mission to Earth, she has selected these articles as working plans for the mission.
An unforeseen problem, however, proves the Mission to have been doomed from the start. When his student asks for help, she and Nietzsche try to stop the fruitless mission. Unfortunately, they are not completely successful. Many other Sllthians, unaware of what awaits them, are already in orbit around Zapff…waiting.
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The Mission

The Mission

by Robert Pielke
The Mission

The Mission

by Robert Pielke

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Overview

On Sllth, a deadly plague has been progressively destroying all life. Their only hope is to emigrate to another world. Earth [Zapff to Sllthians] is close enough, but it is currently unsuitable. Sllthians, however, have a way of changing this.
Meanwhile, Douglas Nietzsche, a professor of American history, has immersed himself in alcohol and "speculative history" in an attempt to obliterate his anguish over a lost love. Thoroughly unheralded, his four controversial articles concern how tragic American history might have been, had it not been for certain key events and heroic individuals. One of his students, an exotic woman, has developed an unusual interest in these writings. As a forerunner of the Sllthian mission to Earth, she has selected these articles as working plans for the mission.
An unforeseen problem, however, proves the Mission to have been doomed from the start. When his student asks for help, she and Nietzsche try to stop the fruitless mission. Unfortunately, they are not completely successful. Many other Sllthians, unaware of what awaits them, are already in orbit around Zapff…waiting.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940012565785
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/26/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 255
File size: 186 KB

About the Author

ROBERT PIELKE, a native of Baltimore, Maryland, now lives in Claremont, California. He earned a B.A. in History at the University of Maryland, an M. Div. in Systematic Theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, and a Ph. D. in Social Ethics from the Claremont Graduate School.

He taught on ground and online for countless years at George Mason University in Virginia, El Camino College in California and online for the University of Phoenix. Now happily retired from “the job,” he is doing what he always wanted to do since he wrote his first novel at ten in elementary school. It was one paragraph, three pages long and, although he didn’t know it at the time, it was alternate history.

Since then, in addition to his academic writings in ethics, logic, and popular culture, he has published short stories, feature articles, film reviews, a non-fiction analysis of rock music, You Say You Want a Revolution: Rock Music in American Culture, a boring academic treatise, Critiquing Moral Arguments, a savagely satirical novel on America and its foibles, proclivities and propensities, Hitler the Cat Goes West, and an alternate history, science fiction novel, The Mission.

Most recently, he has updated and revised his book on rock music and it is being republished by McFarland & Co. Alternate Dimensions Press has published A New Birth of Freedom: The Visitor, the first book of an alternate history/time-travel/first-contact science-fiction trilogy. The second of the three, The Translator, is already underway.

He swims daily, skis occasionally, cooks as an avocation, watches innumerable movies, collects rock and roll concert films, is an avid devotee of Maryland crabs and maintains a rarely visited blog filled with his social and political ravings. His favorite film is the original Hairspray; his favorite song is “A Day in the Life;” his favorite pizza is from the original Ledo Restaurant in College Park, MD; and he is a firm believer in the efficacy of "sex, drugs and rock and roll." Somehow his family and friends put up with him.
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