Here’s a little fact about Lydia Jones: she’s dead. She decided to donate her body to science, and when she died in a fatal car accident, her wish came true. A team of the best scientists in the world could not predict what Lydia will become with her improved body. They could not have predicted what would happen. They, most importantly, could not have predicted that Lydia would come back to life. Who could predict such a thing?

For twenty-five years, L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest has discovered and nurtured a steady stream of new authors who have changed the face of SF. Chosen by an impressive panel of judges drawn from the biggest names in the genre, taught at a remarkable week-long workshop, and celebrated at world-class venues such as the Kennedy Space Center, the United Nations and the Science Fiction Museum, Contest winners are given the best possible foundation for a long-standing writing career. Filled with more than a thousand spectacular images, interspersed with over one hundred success stories and testimonials, this book celebrates the first quarter century of Writers of the Future. This is truly the gold standard of SF awards. For more info, please visit: http://www.writersofthefuture.com/

Mankind has always wondered in what form contact with alien life would take.In this story I explore the possibility of Alien life contacting us in a rather unique way, and the ramifications of such a meeting. NOTE: 25 chapters, at approx ~5,000 words per chapter..so this book will be approc 125,000 words..rather large for a novella, so I guess it will be a book after all...:)