- Publisher:
- PENGUIN
- Year of publication:
- 2018
- ISBN:
- 978-1-9810-0089-0
- Pages:
- 294
YAHWEH'S CHILDREN
JOSEPH LYTTLETON
In the early decades of the 21st century, the first confirmed transmissions from a long vanished alien species arrive. These messages, transmitting from far beyond our galaxy, arrive as indecipherable gibberish, except for a single word written in an ancient human language. One name: Yahweh."Yahweh's Children" follows three generations of the Priestly family through interweaving timelines. The Priestly men are a stubborn and gently misanthropic tribe, driven equally by their passions and their disdain for their fathers. Wyatt is the patriarch, a Luddite who is being pulled kicking and screaming into the future. His son Parker, living in the shadow of his twin sister, is a bitter also-ran in the race for his dad's affection.Nearly 50 years after the reception of the first "Yahweh Message", Parker's eldest son, Alex, lives in a world haphazardly transformed by alien technology. Working as a journalist, Alex stumbles upon a mysterious government project involving the alien messages that may hold the key to the next stage of human evolution. Or it may herald the death of Yahweh's Children.A novel about who we are, who we've been, and who we will become, "Yahweh's Children" is a sharply satirical but entirely plausible alternate history of the 21st century.
