The Last Ark - Softcover

Mabra, Mr Allen; Mabra, Mr. Michael A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0989156540 ISBN 13: 9780989156547

Publisher: Allen Mabra, 2016

Synopsis

Deadly solar flares ravage earth life when the sun expands. Billions die as deadly heat sweeps the planet. The surviving humans build seven exo-solar spaceships to escape the devastation. The ships each carry two million frozen embryos and seeds to re-establish earth-like environments on planets that orbit more stable stars. 150 humans and mechanicals crew each ship. This is the story of the final ship. It leaves orbit for a destination 50 light-years away. The vessel is Ark VII. We believe that life already exists on the planet, Strawn 1120A. The type or abundance of life is unclear. Will the planet be suitable for earthmen to colonize?

About this title

About the Author:

ALLEN MABRA Allen Mabra received his education in Texas, graduating from TCU with a B.A. double degree in Geology/Biology. In Carter Riverside High School, he formed a western band and performed at schools, community events and on KXOL radio. He played quarterback and captained the high school football team, pitched for the high school and TCU college freshman baseball teams. He worked for thirty plus years in the oil business rising from Geologist to Vice-president of Exploration for Arco International. He traveled extensively, visiting six continents and more than thirty foreign countries during his career. His writing consisted primarily of reports, presentations and several papers published in the American Association of Petroleum Geologists Journal. Allen began writing novels following retirement from Arco. His published works include; “Search For The Golden Krill,” “The Cavern,” “Escape From the Cavern,” “Crys Delchant and the Stone of Life,” “Taylok” “Dimensional” with Judy Born “Thorns of Summer” with Joy Mabra Allen and wife Joy raised four children and currently live in southern California. MICHAEL MABRA Michael Mabra grew up in the country around Ft Worth and Tyler, Texas often visiting oil drilling sites his father ‘sat’ while working for Sinclair Oil and Gas Company – later purchased by ARCO. One of four children, they were a close family – playing guitar and singing songs together through the musically charged ‘60’s and 70’s. Creativity was inspired by both his mother and dad. In the late ‘60s, he began college as an electrical engineer student at the University of Colorado in Boulder. That wasn’t quite the right fit and he spent a couple of years in the Army trying to figure out a career path. Back to school, Michael hit on newer technology in computing at the University of Colorado and made that a career for thirty-four years. He worked his way from programming COBOL and Fortran to eventually being Chief Technology Officer for a large medical device company in Southern California. Michael authored a small novel (“The Clownfish Story”) working with his son, Jon in the late 1980’s. This is his first full-length book and he is proud to have worked on it with his Dad and the help of the rest of the family. Currently, Michael and his wife Deborah live in California part of the year and in Alaska the remainder.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen Mabra
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0989156540
• ISBN 13: 9780989156547
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 451
• Editor: Cole Ms Linda E., Born Ms Judy K., Mabra Ms Joy V., Mabra Ms Debi J., Mabra Mr David A.