The California Grandkids Who Saved Pax Galactica

This is the tale of a trio of heroic space-age teenage grandkids who find themselves the last line of defense in an epic battle to save the Earth from the evil intent of a phantom-like being that has trekked 2.5 million light-years to target their leader, seventeen-year-old Penelope Michelle Wellspring. After capturing and imprisoning her uncle, Earth's peacekeeping, planet-hopping ambassador, IT arrives in Northern California in a starship full of doomsday weapons. IT knows in advance precisely where to find Penelope. Capable of endless transformations, the phantom thing disguises ITself as an ordinary human being and confronts the young woman in her grandfather's world-famous apple orchard. IT offers her a one-time take-it-or-leave-it Mephistophelean bargain ---- claiming IT will free the ambassador if she gives IT highly classified information. This is the tale of the Spacer clan's high-stakes gamble to prevent the evil invader from engineering a full-scale galactic invasion ---- and of the tight-knit group of grandkids heroics to save the ambassador, the planet, and the galaxy. And proverbially speaking, last but far from least, this already breathtaking tale is graced by a touching love story sparked by a serendipitous extra-sensory perception intertwining of two exceedingly beautiful young minds.

Samuel O. Spooner holds a BA degree in philosophy and political science from Metropolitan State University in Denver, Colorado. He and his wife Joan are enjoying retirement in San Diego. Retirement has finally given him time to actively pursue a lifelong interest in writing creative fiction that promotes both science and spirituality. Mr. Spooner's first novel, 18-Karat Karma, was published in 2010. His second novel, The California Kids Who Saved Cosmic Civilization, was published in 2017. He is retired from a pair of very diverse careers. During the earliest period of his working life, he was employed as a metallurgical research-and-development technician and laboratory supervisor for several decades. More recently, he enjoyed a lengthy career in real-estate sales and management. A proverbial potpourri of lifetime experiences has grounded Mr. Spooner in both practical science and foundational philosophy. His novels are a veritable garden of scientific wildflowers living in symbiosis with spirituality. His artfully crafted wordscapes are profusely sweetened with a bucketful of double entendre and a fistful of triple-witted wordplay.

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