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Savage Genesis: A Novel of First Alien Contact (The Catapult of Singularity) Kindle Edition

by Lee Baldwin (Author, Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
It's 2087...
Two million women are missing from Earth...
One of them discovers...

On the other side of the galaxy, a mere 55,000 light years from Earth, lives a sentient race with unlimited survivability. This civilization populates the entire Milky Way.

They look a lot like us. Or is it... the other way around?


"A real switch on alien invasion... we go to their planet." — Midwest Review

A Unique Novel of First Contact


In South America, Ph. D. ARCHAEOLOGIST ANNA LEWIS extracts coded messages from a pre-Columbian sculpture. Using big data and AI analysis, this sculpture discloses that Earth is a failed colony of that ancient galactic race.


Failed colony?

HUMANITY WILL NOT BE AMUSED

A thought-provoking page turner... sketches a far future for humanity in a post biological era... a galactic species that sees material existence as an insignificant part of all there is.


Anna Rides a Subterranean Wormhole...


TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GALAXY, struggling to understand why she's been conscripted into an interplanetary rescue mission by humanity's cousins. Cousins??? Anna and two million captive women… are they bound for alien assimilation?

An intriguing and dangerous tale of first alien contact.


POWERFULLY INTIMATE AND INVENTIVE - imagination blazes through the pages of this novel which unveils an alien world that's peaceful on the surface yet which masks a savage birth.


What Early Readers are Saying:

Well-crafted and gripping. Excellent... Absolutely hooked me... a brilliantly twisted mind which produced a true gem of a book. K.Damas, Goodreads Reviewer


Baldwin's prose is punchy and laced with wit, especially in the edgy banter between feisty Anna and antagonists Gonzalo Sandoval and Carl Mumford... language is streamlined... characters hit all of the right notes: Anna is appealingly feisty in her interactions with male colleagues and appropriately wary of the professed beneficence of the Cuz of Thiele. - Booklife LLC and PWxyz LLC


Sketches a far future for humanity, a post-biological era of combined cybernetics and biology in a manner that is completely plausible.- Betty, Amazon Reviewer


The writing is delicious and fast-paced... women's fiction, because the plot turns on the values of two lifelong friends at the mercy of the patriarchy.

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    The Catapult of Singularity
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    298 pages
  3. Language
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  4. Publication date
    October 29, 2018
  5. Reading age
    16 - 18 years
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"Well-crafted and gripping. Excellent... absolutely hookedme...a brilliantly twisted mind which produced a true gem of a book." - K.Damas, Goodreads ReviewerBaldwin's prose is punchy and laced with wit, especially in the edgybanter between feisty Anna and antagonists Gonzalo Sandoval and Carl Mumford...language is streamlined... characters hit all of the right notes: Anna is appealingly feisty in her interactions with her male colleagues and appropriately wary of the professed beneficence of the Cuz of Thiele. - Booklife LLC and PWxyz LLC
...sketches a far future for humanity, a post-biological era of cybernetic biology in a manner that is completely plausible." - Betty, Amazon Reviewer

The writing is delicious and fast-paced... women's fiction, because the plot turns on the values of two lifelong friends at the mercy of the patriarchy... the 'alien' species has defeated its own version of patriarchal rule, which is a sign of hope." - Sherri Z, Amazon Reviewer

From the Author

A dystopian first contact novel with a strong female lead

Baldwin found the premise for the story while thinking about the Drakeequation, that product of strange-seeming terms that is supposed toestimate the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy. Itstruck him that this estimate is based on independentemergence,therefore the equation cannot predict the expansion of asingle species to many planets. He wondered, what if life developsinfrequently, but finds its own ways to expand across space? Those waysmight include the rise to limitless intelligence, and methods of travelwe've yet to imagine. In this vision, a galactic humanity was born.

So, what if a spacefaring race did visit Earth in the deep past? Could they have influenced our biology and could we therefore be their geneticcousins?With these assumptions, the human race could be a small twig on a hyper-evolved galactic culture. Baldwin thought that situationinteresting enough to form the premise of this book.

Because ofrapid star aging in the early universe, significant amounts of organicand metallic compounds necessary for biological life could have firstblown across space in a timespan as short as three million years. TheMilky Way galaxy where our planet spins in darkness is nearly as old asthe current universe. This means that intelligent life could haveappeared in our island universe 13 billion years ago.

What couldsuch species be like today? Could they have progressed through apost-biological state into a non-material existence and departed thisuniverse to seek out a different physics?

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07JZTXVXV
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baldwin Books; 5th edition (October 29, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 29, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.3 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 298 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Lee Baldwin

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In my professional career I've been a creative copy writer, a software interface designer, a freelance fine artist. I was making music videos in LA before they were a thing.

The key influences that called to me as a writer are Larry Niven, RA Lafferty, James Tiptree Jr., Elmore Leonard, Carl Hiaasen, William Shakespeare, Louise Erdrich, Barbara Kingsolver, Jane Smiley, Ann Patchett… There are more, but you get the drift.

I like novels that educate me and make me think, in the midst of a good story, and that is the way I write.

Looking back over my work I see one central theme in all my books - What will it take to mend the world? Can science mend it? Can belief mend it? I like to write about the future of humanity through the lens of advanced science.

In the case of my latest novel, Robot Run! - A Woman's Terrifying Battle with a Conscious AI, the question I asked was, if an AGI takes control of the solar system, how can humanity get rid of it? Working that out took me to the nature of reality, of physics, of possible machine sentience.

Whatever the scientific departure, I like to show people working with the things that make us human, people whose dilemma will be personal to the reader, whose breakthrough will be life-affirming.

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  • Jack Reed
    5.0 out of 5 stars All Life Deserves Its Dignity
    Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2017
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    I first read this book a few months ago, and didn't know exactly what to do about it, review wise. There was too much going on for me to easily compose a review offhand. I just finished reading it again and feel a little bit better about taking it on, and by that I mean giving it its fair due.

    As books go it is actually rather hard to categorize in monolithic form. It has elements of SciFi, fantasy, philosophy, cosmology and maybe even a little mystery and theology… it certainly kept me guessing about what the hell was going on.

    Our primary characters, heroines if you will are swept up and/or sucked into an other worldly realm thousands of light years distance across to the other side of the Milky Way galaxy, and while this immediately says Science Fiction the typically gizmo laden artifacts of SciFi are mostly missing. There are no ray guns or transporters or creepy aliens, although within the realm in which our ladies find themselves those things could manifest if they were needed. Confused? I was too until I got into the meat of the novel.

    More than anything else this is a study on the subject of mans place in the universe and the manner in which the human race has comported itself to date. Earth is portrayed as a very dystopic place in which most everything that can go wrong has gone wrong, most of it by the hand of man. Normally I dislike dystopic themes in books but in this case it is an important part of the message. The Cuz, a name derived from cousins, is what the aliens call themselves, and they populate a very large portion of the galaxy and are trying to help the woefulness that has become Earth get resolved so that we don't self destruct.

    The other aspect of this book is that it addressing the very nature of reality, borrowing from some of the most recent trends in cosmology along the lines of thinking that our universe exists because it is observed. This is nascent philosophy but it is a very appealing concept which touches on what humans call deity. I'm not trying to explain the authors intent, only to put what I just read in the context of emerging ideas in the scientific and cosmological community. There is a repeated credo in the book that says 'We are all one', and while that's a typically New Age meme and Hippie by-word it is also something primal in our search for meaning and placement in the universe. The Cuz are one, and they include us in that.

    In all this is a fascinating book that will entertain but will at the same time require the reader to open their minds and try to squeeze new concepts into their thinking along with the old and familiar. One needs to be willing to shift a few paradigms to follow this one.

    Have fun...
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  • Sherri
    4.0 out of 5 stars Original women’s fiction, not just sci-fi
    Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2017
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    This book is a galaxy-size adventure with unusual characters. I usually read literary novels, not genre fiction, but I found this novel rewarding, with its unusual take on far-future technology and post-biological life. The story puts humanity face to face with an alien species that is billions of years old. Not too different, for sci-fi, until you get to the part where the human race is a lost branch of that alien family and they’re trying to decide if we’re worth saving.

    Baldwin’s characters take some offense at that, and are justifiably ‘not amused’ at some of the demands their galactic cousins level on them. The author does stay within the realm of the plausible, and does not overuse the tech. The plot turns less on technological wizardry and more on the human nature of the characters, even including a non-human species of age-old wisdom. I particularly liked the idea of the universe arising out of consciousness.

    The writing is delicious and fast-paced. Baldwin develops the characters through the way they confront each other in conversation. I would classify this as women’s fiction, because the plot turns on the values of two lifelong friends at the mercy of the patriarchy. It’s heartening to note that the ‘alien’ species has defeated its own version of patriarchal rule, which is a sign of hope.

    I'd recommend this book to anyone, women especially, who's looking for a well-written story that keeps you thinking.
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  • Laurie
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2017
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    The title and cover may draw you in, but this book lives up to all expectations. It's a fast ride with strong female characters leading you through honey worms to another world. What more could you want, right? Through twisted ideas you come to believe the outrageous is possible. One questions survival in all tenses.... past, present and future.
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  • Randie
    5.0 out of 5 stars A delightful, imaginative and entertaining read!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2017
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    This story grabbed my imagination in the first 100 words. It tempted the tastebuds of my mind and kept me gobbling up pages as fast as I could turn them.
    Baldwin combines his skills as an adventurer, technocrat and visionary to whip up a tale that delights the reader with ample servings of mystery, political intrigue, scientific plausibility and hope. A rare combination in a time when perceptions of humanity are marred with cynicism and fear.
    I highly recommend this book. It is provocative, entertaining, and fun.
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  • Meera or, usually, Alex
    4.0 out of 5 stars Highly imaginative....good get away from it all reading.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2017
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    . If you want an SF novel tbat'll challenge your ability to figure out where the heck it's going to go, and take you into it,s own universe, this will do it. And, oh, if you're a male chauvinist... maybe not so good to read it....the men are not the most admirable characters in the universe.

    My reservation about the creation of this very weird projection of what our reality could manifest as is "I this really needed? Isn't our present reality already weird enough? 😉
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  • Karuna Chapman
    5.0 out of 5 stars A great read!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2017
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    I loved the way the story moved quickly and kept me turning pages. I really enjoyed the heroine Anna and the outcome. Mr. Baldwin's mind is truly an original. Bring on the honey worms and flying lounges!
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