The American Civil War (1861-1865) was indisputably this country’s deadliest and bloodiest civil conflict. The horrific aftermath: an estimated 620000 people dead, along with devastated families, ruined economies and disease. Over a century after Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Union General Grant at Appomattox on Sunday, April 9, 1865, the continuing social and political fallout from this tragic war eventually leads to another major US conflict: the African American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968). It was another “civil war” that many historians came to refer to as the Second Reconstruction. Now, actual US historical conflicts, landmark US Supreme Court decisions, quantum physics, theoretical astrophysics are all wrapped indelibly around one of society’s most poignant family issues-the fatherless home-to form the basis for an original and dramatic science fiction novel. Deadly Artifact (www.eugeneallenwilson.com) involves various multinational, multicultural alien planetary civilizations located throughout the galaxy. The alien factor of this story begins on one of these planets called Dabenar. A young daughter’s search for her missing father becomes the principal catalyst that ignites a crisis that eventually spreads throughout the inhabited galaxy. The human factor of this story begins with Silas Jeremiah Baldwin. Like many of his peers growing up in antebellum Georgia, Baldwin experiences first hand many of the tumultuous events that are pushing the …

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