WHY I AM WRITING THIS
I never put much faith in stories that began with an abduction. I assumed writers resorted to that sort of thing when they couldn’t find a more convincing way into the story. Even if some of those stories were true, it never crossed my mind that anything so extraordinary could happen to me. But first, let me introduce myself. Come closer. Take a good look. Do you see me clearly? Yes, I’m that young man in jeans and an immaculately white shirt. I’ve never actually worn glasses, but you could easily mistake me for an intellectual. Why? Because I have an opinion about everything. History, politics, religion—you name it. I could keep an argument going long after I’d run out of anything useful to say. Most days, I read the news, scroll through social media, and, before bed, disappear into old books. Nothing in that ordinary life suggested that I would one day wake up a prisoner on a planet no human being had ever heard of. So imagine my shock when I opened my eyes and fo...