Two Planets, Two Peoples, is the story of the inhabitants of the planet Keplerin, who interact with Earth to save their population from the total annihilation of an impending asteroid bombardment. Its characters face and address numerous technical, financial, ethical and societal issues attendant to that destruction. During their struggles to survive they discover that different groups have different perspectives about truth and ethics. The struggles of the Keplerians mirror, in exaggerated fashion, issues which face humans on Earth in their day to day lives.