The Stuff of Life – Book I
Years ago, the people of a planet near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy sent out ships whose mission is to seed planets with the stuff of life: single-cell animals and plants; eggs of reptiles, amphibians, birds, and fish; and infant mammals. The people’s purpose: to prepare these planets for their children. Each ship’s crew includes at least one telepath. In 2002, a telepath is born in the hospital at Fort Hood, Texas. In 2015, he contacts a seeding ship. This is their story.
If you like a yarn spun of space and stars, across eons of time, you will love Paul Lentz’s beautifully imagined story of Kendrick, known as “Ship.” When a killing cancer invades this twelve-year-old boy on his polluted home world, he is rescued–chosen–as a telepath, to occupy the body of a spaceship and work under the command of Captain. The mission: to create refuge planets where human life can continue when the home world is no longer sustainable.
Kendrick, Captain and Victoria, metallic, robotic space characters with feelings and smarts will warm your heart and touch your sense of humor as they battle evil forces in their travels to inject distant planets with “the Stuff of Life.” — Ellen Ulken, author of “Beautiful Dreamer: The Life of Stephen Collins Foster” (Xlibris) and “Silent Sisters: Profiles of the Short Lives of Karen Carpenter, Patsy Cline, Cass Elliot, Ruby Elzy, Janis Joplin and Selena Qunitanilla-Perez”
About Paul Lentz (Atlanta, Georgia Author)
Paul Lentz was born in Concord, NC, and attended schools in Guilford and Albemarle, NC; and Quantico USMC Base, VA. He graduated from Concord High School in 1962. In 1966, he was a Distinguished Military Graduate of The Citadel, receiving a BS in Physics. He was commissioned a Lieutenant in the USAF in which he served until his retirement as a Lt. Colonel in 1986. He earned his private pilot license in 1974, and a MS degree from Purdue University in 1975.
— After retiring from the Air Force, he worked for The Robinson Company, owned by his wife, providing training and consulting services to the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the US Army, the Patent and Trademark Office, and C-SPAN Television.
— He moved to Peachtree City, Georgia, in 2005 where he serves as Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the Friends of the Peachtree City Library.
— He is the author of four novels, "On Ty Ty Creek: Sweet Potato Pie, Moonshine, and other Southern Traditions" "The Stuff of Life: Book I," "Holy Fire,” and “The Cry of the Innocents.” All are available on amazon.com in both print and Kindle editions. All royalties accrue to the Peachtree City Library, Inc.
