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"Examines the facts and fiction behind the happenings in Area 51"--Tags
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I loved the way the author weaved together all the various conspiracies from the mid 90s into one cohesive storyline. It made for easy reading, and everything seemed to make some sense as the story unfolded.
Definitely worth picking up if you like conspiracy based stories, scifi, or both.
Definitely worth picking up if you like conspiracy based stories, scifi, or both.
Good military Sci-fi. This novel is the first book. Entertaining and fast paced read with an intriguing plot. This is the first book of a series of ten. The characters are clearly described. Author (what's his name?) mixes the ancient mysteries-- makes a new possible outcome for our future and what might happened. Does a really good job of weaving into the plot most of the well known alien conspiracy theories. Narrator, Jeffrey Kafer did not do his review on some of the words and they're mispronounced. Where's book #2?
This is the novel that caught my attention and got me reading this series. I am one that likes to read series in order when I can and this is definitely worth following the time line as the author has laid out. Plus to be a minor conspiracy follower myself, this lends itself nicely to being actually plausible, if a little stretched.
Area 51 was an entertaining and fast paced read with an intriguing plot . I found it hard to put down and immediately ordered the sequel Area 51 The Reply.
What you see is what you get with this book....good book about aliens and conspiracy theories and government cover-ups. Interesting and entertaining.
Eh, pretty slow going in this book. Couldnt event get into it enough to finish it.
Liked it, was good and interesting enough to go find the others in the series now...
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Writing under the pen name of Robert Doherty, Bob Mayer is the creator and author of the best-selling Area 51 series. He has more than two million books in print and has taught novel writing for colleges, workshops, conferences, and his own writers retreat. Mayer graduated from West Point and has served in the Infantry and Green Berets, where he show more commanded an A-Team show less
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Area 51
- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Mike Turcotte; Lisa Duncan; Dr. Werner von Seeckt; Kelly Reynolds; Peter Nabinger; Major Quinn (show all 10); Johnny Simmons; General Gullick; Kaji; Colonel Mickell
- Important places
- Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, USA; Area 51, Nevada, USA; Cairo, Egypt; Great Pyramid, Giza, Egypt; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Bimini, Bahamas (show all 9); Dulce, New Mexico, USA; Rapa Nui; Easter Island
- Dedication
- To Craig Cavanaugh
who helped with the idea
and was the first one
to read the manuscript - First words
- It came alive into darkness, wondering what had caused it to wake and aware at the same time that it was much weaker than ever before.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And there were other machines out there and they were listening.
- Original language
- English
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- Popularity
- 53,185
- Reviews
- 9
- Rating
- (3.50)
- Languages
- English, Italian, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 17
- ASINs
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