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Butterfly: Book III: Tomorrow's Children
More than fifteen years have now passed since the children of the Geriatric Brigade were born and left behind on Earth . . . and now the Third Christian Millennium has begun. The children have been secreted, protected, nourished, educated, and loved at Butterfly House, a private compound on Cayman Brac in the Caribbean—the smallest and most remote of the Cayman Islands.
Aside from their guardians, teachers, and a few trusted people in the United States, no one else on Earth knows of their existence. Most of those who helped in their births believe the children left with their parents on the Antarean Mothership, and of those who know where they live, only a few suspect how very special and talented these children are or what their potential might be.
To the Brigade, the chance to leave Earth and enter the realm of deep space travel occurred by chance—an accident of time and place. “But was it an accident?” the Brigade’s commanders had wondered. The Antareans’ answer was “Nothing in the Master’s Plan is accidental.”
If the children of Butterfly House were to leave their home planet and if they had no contact with Earth again, what might future Earth-human space travelers find in millennia from now? Would the Brigade still exist? Would their offspring and generations beyond have joined the Brigade?
The children of Butterfly House know the answers, and the Universe is about to find out!
In the final installment of the New York Times bestselling Cocoon trilogy, Butterfly shows the effect of the children of Butterfly House and what they hold for the future of mankind.
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
Aside from their guardians, teachers, and a few trusted people in the United States, no one else on Earth knows of their existence. Most of those who helped in their births believe the children left with their parents on the Antarean Mothership, and of those who know where they live, only a few suspect how very special and talented these children are or what their potential might be.
To the Brigade, the chance to leave Earth and enter the realm of deep space travel occurred by chance—an accident of time and place. “But was it an accident?” the Brigade’s commanders had wondered. The Antareans’ answer was “Nothing in the Master’s Plan is accidental.”
If the children of Butterfly House were to leave their home planet and if they had no contact with Earth again, what might future Earth-human space travelers find in millennia from now? Would the Brigade still exist? Would their offspring and generations beyond have joined the Brigade?
The children of Butterfly House know the answers, and the Universe is about to find out!
In the final installment of the New York Times bestselling Cocoon trilogy, Butterfly shows the effect of the children of Butterfly House and what they hold for the future of mankind.
Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
256 pages, Paperback
First published August 5, 2014
About the author
David Saperstein
25 books31 followersDavid Saperstein is the author of Red Devil - The Book of Satan the first book in The Evil on Earth series, as well as the novel Cocoon, a New York Times Bestseller and Academy Award-winning film. In addition to The Evil on Earth series, his novels include Metamorphosis: The Cocoon Story Continues and Butterfly: Tomorrow’s Children – parts II and III of the Cocoon Trilogy; Fatal Reunion; and he co-authored A Christmas Visitor (for which he also wrote the Hallmark TV film); A Christmas Passage; and A Christmas Gift.
A pioneering proponent of ebooks, in 1998 his novel Dark Again was the first full novel available via the Internet.
A pioneering proponent of ebooks, in 1998 his novel Dark Again was the first full novel available via the Internet.
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January 3, 2022
Forget the movies read the books is my overall reaction upon finally reading the complete Cocoon trilogy of books. I remember watching the two Cocoon moves back in the eighties and enjoying them so when I came upon the books on Kindle I started reading them. While I enjoyed the movie I believe the books are so much better as they make it about more than just old folks getting a new lease on life via an encounter with aliens. Metamorphosis and Tomorrow's Children gives us the wider view of what happens to what the aliens call the Geriatric Brigade once they leave Earth. While book 2 dealt with the effects of the process the brigade went through in much more detail including their new found ability to have children with various alien mates and some of their eventual return to Earth for the births themselves, book 3 deals a lot more with the children themselves and how their mixed heritage has allowed them to evolve into people more advanced then their parents or the Antareans. I won't spoil the book for anyone who hasn't read it yet but I believe it definitely worth reading and I wouldn't mind seeing the trilogy redone as a mini series or movies that more accurately tell the story as it was told in the books.
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