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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I listened to Mark Nelson's reading for librivox. He's a good reader, but I may have missed a few lines in a few spots. This is exactly what one can expect from a short novel of classic pulp SF. Plenty of adventure and thought-provoking ideas, but not meant to be savored by the literati. Ideas of science, technology, sociology, psychology, and politics were all explored, but naively & simplistically. I did enjoy it, and would have done so in a paper version, too - but I cannot quite recommend it. A surprisingly weak work from a usually reliable pro. The tale of a (perhaps) alien invasion of Colorado and the search to find the secret behind it and the invaders’ super weapon. The protagonists spend so much time trooping through the woods you may think that you are reading Last of the Mohicans. The low rating does not apply to the Librivox reader Mark Nelson who does a good job. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: The mild-mannered surveyor Lockley is going about his business at a project site in Colorado when the unthinkable happens -- an object that seems to have originated from outer space crashes to the earth. This unusual event sets off a chain of increasingly dire consequences, and before long, it becomes clear that only Lockley can save the world from the impending alien invasion. .No library descriptions found. |
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I always like his work as examples of what "Classic SF" was all about. He spends little or no time discussing the technicalities of space travel and planet colonization. He write stories about what life may be like when we finally do it.
This is a near future, Earth bound novel. It is not his usual fair but professionally told as always. I just didn't like the direction of the story nor the ending. Still, I will read everything he writes as he is a master of the "Classic SF" genre. ( )