Chapter 30How easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from some other species from another planet outside in the universe. We’d forget all the little local differences that we have between our countries…
—Ronald Reagan
At our meeting in Geneva, the US president said that if the earth faced an invasion by extraterrestrials, the United States and the Soviet Union would join forces to repel such an invasion. I shall not dispute the hypothesis, though I think it’s early yet to worry about such an intrusion…
—Mikhail Gorbachev
2:00 p.m. GMT+3, May 11, 2022
Göbekli Tepe, fifteen kilometers west of Sanliurfa, Turkey
Everything is pardoned the brave, or so says the Kurdish proverb Zara reflects upon as she stares at the pend
