Memorials of the Late Francis Oliver Finch: With Selections from His Writings (1865)

This story begins when a strange red light appears in the middle of an arctic Labrador winter. Cal and Allan investigate, but are stricken with disaster. One dies in an encounter with alien beings and the other is transferred across 80,000 light years of space. They return to Earth to stop an environmental tragedy, but their journey is wrought with unspeakable danger. With all its science-fiction elements, the book is more than anything else a chronicle of the life of some very human beings that each and every reader can easily relate to. As in all excellent science-fiction, the main characters stumble and fall badly, but they are determined to get back on their feet again and turn their stumbling blocks into stepping stones.