Purusha's Urn

John Robert Johnson takes his readers on a Science Fiction Journey.

"It was nearly midnight when the supervising flight attendant was serving coffees to the flight crew of the Boeing 777-300LR. When she glanced out the cockpit window, something caught her eye. Since the passenger airliner was crossing the Atlantic at its optimal cruising altitude of 43,000 feet, she knew it couldn't be the contrail of a higher flying aircraft. Reaching from horizon to horizon, it was far too long and perfectly arced across the ultramarine evening sky to be anything like that. The co-pilot noticed her staring and looked up to see what had captured her attention. As his head tilted and he squinted his eyes, he reached over and tugged on the sleeve of the pilot, who was busy emptying a second bag of Equal into his steaming coffee. The flight engineer at the back of the cockpit realized all the chatter had stopped, and he looked up from his computer screen to see all three crew mates leaning forward, staring out the window in silence. They were the first to see it without the aid of a telescope. But, within a matter of days, it would grow brighter and become visible to the entire world. Fortunately, only a handful of scientists knew what it was. Even fewer knew how to stop it. Only one could. Purusha's Urn tells the fascinating and unsettling story of Aaron Koppernick, a Nobel Prize-winning astronomer, and a dark secret in his family's past which is somehow tied to this mysterious phenomenon billions of light years from Earth. It is the beginning of the ultimate catastrophe."

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