Maria Rodriguez enjoys her hotel lobby job in Sedona, Arizona. It’s peaceful and quiet and a good place to study her online college courses. Then one day in walks a naked man, whom she names Sam, and both her fate and the entire planet’s now depend on how she can help him – and his quite different brother, who arrives soon thereafter. Sam and his brother, Mustafa (who picked his own name) are aliens from advanced cultures, both bred to be species for the planets they reside on. Sam is human, and Mustafa is an octopus-type creature brought by their “mother” to Earth to help Sam.
THE EARTHLING’S BROTHER gives readers science fiction as a morality tale. Sam is arrested and tortured after he uses a special bracelet to heal a sick man and disappear a racist cop. The feds are called in, and thus appears John Sanders, an evil villain dressed up as a Homeland Security boss. Wrapped up in righteousness and patriotism, he relentlessly pursues Maria, Sam and Mustafa, desiring the weapons potential of the bracelet and oblivious to anything other than the USA winning.
Author Earik Beann concocts an Earth-saving adventure with engaging characters: Maria, a student and kind soul who looks after Sam and risks everything to keep him and Mustafa alive. Sam, the new adult human who sees through innocent eyes and who represents every person who wants the world to be a good and beautiful place. And then there’s Mustafa, the octopus-like genius who pushes himself to the limit to help his new planet. Together they fight Sanders, the evil government agent, who is vain, myopic, and cruel and who stands in direct opposition to Sam. Lastly, there’s “Mother”, a planetoid who protects Sam and Mustafa from a bureaucratic intergalactic authority and guides their safety. Beann writes up an imaginative ending that races against time to a conclusion where logic saves the day.
THE EARTHLING’S BROTHER is a fanciful, apocalyptic and entertaining romp that is a balm for readers looking for some escape.
~Greg Rideout for IndieReader