Appearing Live at the Final Test is an intense hybrid of contemporary real-world drama and mythic science fiction about four neighbors in a Brooklyn-like neighborhood whose lives together take a cosmic punch from a nuclear bomb threat.

Msongo, a black, middle-aged newsstand operator, and his friends Lyon MacAuliffe, a marine radio specialist living on his converted crab boat, and Nopali Arendal, a beautiful airline attendant and club singer, struggle to ride out the whiplashing, interlocking gyrations of the world and the mind of their young friend Arielle Topaz, a talented but insecure firebrand with a case of near-twenty identity shakes.

The sparks flying between Lyon and Nopali build amidst haunting threats of mass weapon strikes which launch them on an eerie and spellbinding journey to unravel a growing mystery that holds their lives and life itself at stake. The novel is intricately related to the author’s 2006 novel Upsurge.

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Appearing Live at the Final Test deals in part with cosmic evolution theory. A primary resource for information on this aspect of cosmology is astrophysicist Eric Chaisson's book Cosmic Evolution.