An apocalypse story about love and family. An apocalypse story with heart.
The Others came in one tiny ship. The people of Earth never saw them, for they communicated from a fair distance above the planet and didn't show themselves. The Earth was doomed, the visitors told them. On a collision course with a large space body speeding in their direction. Scientists searched the skies and beyond, but found nothing. Still, the Others persisted with their message of impending disaster and offered their aid.
They would transfer those humans who wished to be saved. To another planet, a waiting ship, another dimension. The exact destination is unknown. And when the world didn't end in a fiery explosion, as the Others had insisted it would, those few left on Earth puzzled about it for a while. Had the Others been wrong? Was this a plot by the aliens to enslave humanity? They didn't know. The remaining humans waited for them to return, the ones that had been transferred so that they could rebuild or the aliens to reveal their purpose for deceiving mankind.
Eventually those left behind found each other, scattered all over the globe. They came together to form a new civilization, and this is their story.