Second Genesis is the first in a multi-part series created to explore a universe where good and evil are engaged in constant struggle and man has been enlisted to fight on the behalf of the good. The premise for the series is that there must be other sentient creatures out among the stars, and if those other sentients are intelligent, they must also wonder if they are alone in the vastness. And if they are curious, then they must also be seeking the answers we ourselves ponder, but also be limited by the same constraints that hold us to our native world. But more than that, if the universe has a distinct and unyielding set of physical laws that govern our progress and our actions, then why not a distinct moral philosophy as well? The book, and its successors, intertwines mankind's prevailing good versus evil philosophy with the sci-fi genre, and answers the question 'was there an inherent behavioral instinct that gave us a boost out of the muck and on to the stars'? So, given the tools to understand, explore, and affect the universe, wouldn't we find out there, not the moral relativism of the Star Trek universe, or the moral indifference of the Firefly universe, but instead a universal moral philosophy and balance of good and evil, and wouldn't that make the human race, as it treds on the planets of other stars, missionaries as well as explorers?
About the Author: Hank Turowski grew up in an ethnic neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended Parochial school and Johns Hopkins University before gaining a Congressional appointment to Annapolis. He graduated from the Naval Academy with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and later received a Master's Degree in Management from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Hank served in combat on a Destroyer, USS Rupertus (DD-851), on a deployment to Vietnam and the Western Pacific. After Vietnam, Hank attended Flight School in Pensacola, Florida, then transfered to the Navy's Engineer Corps. For the next 18 years, he moved eight times around the world including Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Yorktown, Virginia; Guam, Mariana's Islands; Sigonella, Sicily, and Monterey, Port Hueneme, and San Diego, California. Following Naval service, Hank worked for 3 years in Saudi Arabia, after which he moved to Washington State where he worked in a variety of environmental and technical jobs in the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles, California, and Anchorage, Alaska. In 2008 he returned to Annapolis for a job as a world-wide Master Planner, then he returned to Saudi Arabia to build an open pit gold mine at an extremely remote facility, and rounded out his management career by moving to the tiny island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to act as General Manager for the largest Base Operations contract in the world. He finally retired to Florida to write full time in 2015. In the last six years, Hank has written 3 books of Short Stories and several Screen Plays. His newest novels "The Jihad", "Harb", and "The Angel of Mercy" are continuations of the Infidels novel.