URUS — Bob Grant

A young man is driving down a lonely stretch of highway after midnight and is mulling over the conversations he had earlier with people at a friends wedding. He is feeling like life is passing him by and he has no idea how to change it. Fate steps in and his life is suddenly turned up-side-down when he finds a shiny disk where he saw a UFO land.
He experiences, fear, wonder and excitement during the next few months of his life as he is shown a whole new culture under the sea and learns answers to many questions he has concerning history, economics and religion. He also finds a utopian social structure that exists without crime or money. The amazing thing is that everything he encounters is entwined with the humans on the surface.
The young man not only finds their economy, sports and religion captivating but many other futuristic innovations as well in this underwater world. He falls in love for the first time with the most beautiful and intelligent woman he has ever met. This encounter results in his first epiphany.