Bill Copeland

Birth of the Cosmic Swan Bill Copeland

Geologist Mark flies to the Himalayas to search for the cause of earthquakes growing in ferocity. While setting up equipment, he encounters a beautiful woman, Kusoom, the leader of a cult. Mark scoffs at her belief in a great being who will rise from Mt. Kailas and save her people. Curious about her and the giant creature, he stays to see it hatch under fire from the Chinese Army. Wounded in the fight to save Kusoom, Mark wakes up in space on the living planet. She says, they must escape Earth. A stellar tsunami will soon destroy it. They must try to save the whole Earth, Mark insists. Not possible, she says, but perhaps the council of galactic sentients will help. They fly to the council and plead for Earth, but the council refuses to save primitive humans. Can they convince humans to save themselves? They fly back to Earth.