The Alien Years - Hardcover

Silverberg, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061050350 ISBN 13: 9780061050350

Publisher: Harper Prism, 1998

Synopsis

As alien invaders known as the Entities plunge Earth into a new Dark Age, relegating humankind to a submissive species and unleashing murderous retaliation on those who oppose them, the Cartwright family and their few allies take the lead in the resistance movement.

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Review:

‘We travel in the hands of a master’
New Scientist;
‘Silverberg’s invention is prodigious... like a competent juggler, he maintains his rhythm and suspense to the end’
TLS;
‘Spectacularly readable’
The Times

From the Back Cover:

The new millennium has barely begun when a vast fleet of alien vessels descends without warning on the Earth. Some starships blaze mighty trails of fire; some pop into view, unfathomably silent. Three different but equally strange kinds of alien emerge. Wide-eyed UFOlogists who rush to welcome them are scooped up like bugs collected for study.

The aliens make no response when governments attempt to communicate with them, but a single act of resistance to them provokes massive retaliation. This is the first major catastrophe of the alien years and it will be followed by others. In silence the aliens take control of the world, effortlessly enslaving what remains of its population.

On a remote California ranch, the Carmichaels are a family of blue-eyed, straight-backed patriots, flawed by narrow thinking and repressed emotions-but redeemed by their courage. With them rests the slender hope that the natives of Earth may one day be free.

"Robert Silverberg is doing more than anyone to bring science fiction back into the mainstream of literature."
ANALOG

"One of the great storytellers of the century."
ROGER ZELAZNY

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Prism
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0061050350
• ISBN 13: 9780061050350
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 428