The Notice Period

The book explores social divisions engulfing our human society towards the early 22nd century. Short-term ideologies aka “live for today because tomorrow is not promised” take over the world. When aliens arrive on Earth, they seemingly appeal to this penchant of the human society, offering humans a “deal of a lifetime” – three hundred years of the paradise on Earth in exchange for vacating the planet afterwards. They give humans 3 years to consider all aspects of the deal and vote on the outcome at the end of this “notice period”. The deal drives a further wedge into already divided human society with voters splitting into multiple warring factions. It doesn’t take long for some players to start taking more drastic actions to suppress other voting side, leading to the worldwide “human on human” genocides and extermination.