Suppose, just suppose, that Copernicus was wrong, that the sun revolves around the Earth rather than vice versa? Suppose, in fact, that evidence existed that Earth is not just the center of the solar system but of the universe itself?
In Walker Larson’s novel “Song of Spheres,” a group of scientists, technicians, and one eccentric billionaire—all members of the Institute for Geocentric Research (I.G.R.)—believe in this theory of geocentricism, but experiments done by researchers in the past have failed to confirm this possibility. The moon, they decide, offers better possibilities for conducting these tests than Earth, and so they launch the Terra Program, a project cloaked in secrecy. Billionaire Anthony Forrest spends a large part of his fortune to build the rocket and the necessary accoutrements; the cool, calculating Richard Osborne serves as Director of Operations for this lunar flight; the aged astronomer Dr. Christopher Whitfield acts the philosophical linchpin of the group. Now, all they need is a pilot.
