The story shows how two efficiency experts for a global agency on Earth, year 2,412, spend several years trying to un-ravel serious problems with Global Earth's Jupiter Program, a 100 year-old deep-space voyage of vast resources and wealth, to harvest raw-minerals and rare or very useful gases and frozen liquids, in humongous quantities. Daniel Deveroux and his associate Al Mendoza, work for Planetary Program Proficiency. But with the crash of the 'Ferrous-2' at an orbiting Titan-moon base, and other monsters lurking as solutions, in the strange world of long-term deep-space labor, unions, space-religions, and dangerous conditions, even 300 years from now. By the end of their research, hidden mysteries deep within Jupiter's hellish features, connect to un-happy distant galactic neighbors, with strange and 'alien' plans of their own for Jupiter's riches, and a gathering of eagles, to fight for human rights to the local planetary system.
About the Author: Michael Julian Phillips is a retired journalist-artist, a Fifth-generation Californian whose career has included many projects for film-video, stage, numerous children's books, newspapers and magazines, and music. Julian was born in 1957, at Saint Mary's Hospital in Long Beach, California, the son of an Army Radio Man who served in World War 2 and the Korean Conflict, and his young German born bride, an orphan girl whose childhood included witness of Hitler's murderous rule, and Russian military incursion into East Germany. Julian's grandfather, Edward Julian Phillips, known as 'Jules', was a Salinas area farmer and crop scientist, who was schoolyard pals with famous California writer John Steinbeck. Julian has worked in freelance and small newspapers since about 1973, and was editor of a countywide weekly tabloid newspaper, year 2000 to 2003, in San Luis Obispo County, California, where he spent most of his life, and grew up on ranches and farms. The writer earned a BA degree in Journalism/Communication from San Jose State University in 1981. Julian has been married for 24 years to his first wife, Carol Lynn, and his son Preston Laverne Phillips is now an art student in San Francisco. Science-fiction, real science, fantasy, comic books, and community-journalism, have been the writer's passion for many years, with special admiration for Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Arthur C. Clark, A.E. Van Vogt, Gene Rodenberry, 'X-Men' comic books, Star Trek, and the work of Russ and Cheryl Genet, (Ph.D.), of the Santa Margarita, California based Orion Institute (online), as well as Deepok Chopra, M.D. and many others.