The Observers

by C. R. Downing

Overview

Over uncounted millennia, Glieseians, a telepathic species, with mollusk-like bodies and frail arms that move on lubricated, muscular feet, like snails but have brains that equal nearly sixty percent of their body weight, have assumed the roles of observers, investigators, and interventionists, helping determine the developmental pathways taken by inhabitants of other planets in the Milky Way. As Observers, Mxpan and Zerpall are expected to perform only that role-contact with natives of planets to which they are assigned is unacceptable. However, since M and Z are the Frick and Frack of the Glieseian Ministry of Observation, Investigation, and Intervention (MOII), the pair is imprisoned twice, banished from two solar systems, threatened with selective destruction by targeting their DNA, trapped in android bodies after a faulty brain essence transfer, and forced into an ethically convoluted situation after uncovering a secret about their distant predecessors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781940192741
Publisher:	Koehler Books
Publication date:	12/01/2014
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	12 - 17 Years

About the Author

Dr. Chuck Downing has a BS in Biology and an MA and PhD in Science Education. He taught high school and university science courses for forty years during which time he was awarded San Diego County Teacher of the Year, Christa McAuliffe Fellow, Fellow of the American Society of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, and Presidential Awardee for Excellence in Science Teaching. Downing authored Making Connections, a four-textbook series of integrating science concepts from various disciplines and co-authored an alternative laboratory manual for Advanced Placement Biology for People's Education and has also authored a series of articles of scientific interest for AccessExcellence.org. He designed and developed educational laboratory exercises for the Science Kit and Ward's Biological Company and also designed and developed biotechnology laboratory kits for Stratagene Cloning Systems. He has been writing stories since the early 1980s and won a Teachers as Writers competition and a short story writing contest through Writer's Digest. Both his Masters Thesis and his Doctoral Dissertation were finalists for "Outstanding Submission" in their respective years. In March of 2014, Traveler's HOT L was released.