Ancient Interstellar — Padmakumar M

The four just-out-of-college friends Dhruv, Sanjay, Rohit and Arun had never thought they could change the fate of the Earth. But destiny had a different role for them to play. Their casual vacation to Kerala ended up in a mysterious island where they accidentally start a hidden ancient one-way machine which teleports them to Nova Zila, an alien planet of the unknown galaxy. The friends meet different alien creatures and Zailins, an intelligent alien civilization who welcomes the friends to their world and hails them as their saviours? Did they already know they are coming? They also reveal a shocking truth about Earth and humans who betrayed them in the past. Meeting a small group of human tribes in Nova Zila who reveals their version of the history about the planet adds to their woe. Now the friends have a Herculean task of finding whom to believe and why the other side tries to deceive them. Adding to their problem the friends got separated into two groups, one at the alien side and the other at the humans' side they find themselves caught in a dangerous war. In a war, there is no stalemate. Only one side wins! Who wins and what happens to the others? Did all the friends return back home? Not the kind of holiday they have planned! “Ancient Interstellar” takes the reader on a journey of fun, thrill, mystery and pseudo-science.