Energy War

The aliens who gave humanity its death sentence are still not responding to our overtures for a negotiation. We keep trying to open communications with them but all we get back is silence. Russia tried to nuke them but all that happened was Moscow was sent into the sun. Even with the invention of an artificial uterus, the so-called Baby Machine, the Earth’s population of humans has begun a steady decline that, unless something changes, will end in ninety-some years with the death of the last human being. The three graduate students who discovered wormholes, Lily Yuan, Kevin Langly, and ...

Poco dopo la fine della guerra contro l'ISIS, il professor Kevin Adler, accademico docente di geofisica, viene invitato come relatore da una università del Medio Oriente per un'importante conferenza sul futuro dell'energia. Arrivato in città la notte prima dell'evento non sa che l'autista che lo preleverà dall'albergo il giorno seguente ha, però, ricevuto altre istruzioni.