Book description
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 the 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 natives of Earth may one day be free. (First published 1997)
Robert Silverberg (1935 - ) Robert Silverberg was born in Brooklyn, New
York, in 1935, and is one of the most prolific authors of all time,
writing not just SF & Fantasy, but extensive non-fiction and a large
number of pseudonymously published erotica novels. In his first years as
a professional writer, his output regularly exceeded a million words per
year. He has won and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards
dozens of times as both writer and editor, and in 2004 received the SFWA
Grand Master Award. Among his many acclaimed and bestselling novels are
A Time of Changes, The Book of Skulls, Dying Inside and Lord Valentine's
Castle. Robert Silverberg lives on the West Coast of the United States
with his wife, author, editor and art critic, Karen Haber.
