Please checkout my sci-fi novella Assiyah Rising.

Assiyah (ah-see-YAH): Hebrew. Noun. The physical world we currently live in. A world of action. The fourth and lowest realm of existence. A place where the Creator hides from its creation.

A young Army intelligence officer, an NSA agent, a physicist, a DARPA biologist, and an unassuming man from the Midwest are swept into a powerful current of events cloaked in secrecy and driven from the very top of political power. They soon discover an intelligence that has descended upon the Earth, forcing humanity to reconsider their position in the world and in the cosmos itself.

This is a piece of speculative fiction which explores themes like alien contact, consciousness, artificial intelligence, and our own ability to completely destroy ourselves.

There are 2 flashbacks to actual historical events that are integrated into the plot that I find interesting:

• During the Cuban missile crisis, Vasili Arkhipov holding out on launching a nuclear torpedo which would have most likely escalated into a full scale nuclear war between the US and the Soviets
• During the 1980s, Stanislav Petrov ignoring false reports of US nuclear ICBMs attacking the Soviets.

I am planning on releasing 2 more books to complete the series. This is also my first writing attempt, I would really appreciate any feedback on the book.

Thanks.