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Alien's Guide #1
An Alien's Guide to the Human Species
What if this planet is a reality TV show for another planet?
Earth 1950s. All over the UK people were listening to the BBC Radio Sitcom 'I Say Old Chap!' But it wasn’t only humans who'd tuned in to the broadcast.
Fast forward 25 years and Terries are ready to send spies to film activity on Earth..
Caroline and Phil Gibson are going about their daily lives, trying to raise healthy, fulfilled children and have a few laughs along the way. What they don’t know is that their every move is being analysed and recorded for the enlightenment of the Terries on the planet Largo.
So what will happen when the Terries find out about human mating rituals, leprechauns, various customs and habits, and the vagaries of our waste disposal system?
What will the Terry Prime Minister Rodney Riverbank decide to do?
After reading ‘An Alien’s Guide to the Human Species’ you’ll never look at spiders in the same way again!
Earth 1950s. All over the UK people were listening to the BBC Radio Sitcom 'I Say Old Chap!' But it wasn’t only humans who'd tuned in to the broadcast.
Fast forward 25 years and Terries are ready to send spies to film activity on Earth..
Caroline and Phil Gibson are going about their daily lives, trying to raise healthy, fulfilled children and have a few laughs along the way. What they don’t know is that their every move is being analysed and recorded for the enlightenment of the Terries on the planet Largo.
So what will happen when the Terries find out about human mating rituals, leprechauns, various customs and habits, and the vagaries of our waste disposal system?
What will the Terry Prime Minister Rodney Riverbank decide to do?
After reading ‘An Alien’s Guide to the Human Species’ you’ll never look at spiders in the same way again!
- GenresScience Fiction
331 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2013
6 people are currently reading
53 people want to read
About the author
Deb McEwan
42 books59 followersFollowing a career of over thirty years in the British Army, Deb and her husband moved to Cyprus to become weather refugees.
Deb loves spending time with her husband Allan and rescue dog Sandy. She also loves writing, keeping fit, and socialising, and does her best to avoid housework.
She’s written children's books about Jason the penguin and Barry the reindeer and young adult/adult books about dogs, the afterlife, soldiers, and netball players.
The first book in the Unlikely Soldiers series is set in nineteen-seventies Britain. The second covers the early eighties and includes the Falklands War, service in Northern Ireland and (the former) West Germany. 'Friends and Revenge' is the third in the series, and takes a sinister turn of events.
'Court Out (A Netball Girls' Drama)' is Deb's latest standalone novel. Using netball as an escape from her miserable home life, Marsha Lawson is desperate to keep the past buried and to forge a brighter future. But she’s not the only one with secrets. When two players want revenge, a tsunami of emotions is released at a tournament, leaving destruction in its wake. As the wave starts spreading throughout the team, can Marsha and the others escape its deadly grasp, or will their emotional baggage pull them under,
with devastating consequences for their families and team-mates?
The Afterlife series was inspired by ants. Deb was in the garden contemplating whether to squash an irritating ant or to let it live. She wondered whether anyone up there decides the same about us and thus the series was born.
‘The Island Dog Squad’ is a series of novellas inspired by the rescue dog Deb and Allan adopted this March. The real Sandy is a sensitive soul, not quite like her fictional namesake, and the other characters are based on Sandy’s real-life mates.
For more information visit www.debmcewansbooksandblogs.com.
Deb loves spending time with her husband Allan and rescue dog Sandy. She also loves writing, keeping fit, and socialising, and does her best to avoid housework.
She’s written children's books about Jason the penguin and Barry the reindeer and young adult/adult books about dogs, the afterlife, soldiers, and netball players.
The first book in the Unlikely Soldiers series is set in nineteen-seventies Britain. The second covers the early eighties and includes the Falklands War, service in Northern Ireland and (the former) West Germany. 'Friends and Revenge' is the third in the series, and takes a sinister turn of events.
'Court Out (A Netball Girls' Drama)' is Deb's latest standalone novel. Using netball as an escape from her miserable home life, Marsha Lawson is desperate to keep the past buried and to forge a brighter future. But she’s not the only one with secrets. When two players want revenge, a tsunami of emotions is released at a tournament, leaving destruction in its wake. As the wave starts spreading throughout the team, can Marsha and the others escape its deadly grasp, or will their emotional baggage pull them under,
with devastating consequences for their families and team-mates?
The Afterlife series was inspired by ants. Deb was in the garden contemplating whether to squash an irritating ant or to let it live. She wondered whether anyone up there decides the same about us and thus the series was born.
‘The Island Dog Squad’ is a series of novellas inspired by the rescue dog Deb and Allan adopted this March. The real Sandy is a sensitive soul, not quite like her fictional namesake, and the other characters are based on Sandy’s real-life mates.
For more information visit www.debmcewansbooksandblogs.com.
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
December 10, 2016
OMG Nooooooo!
The aliens have landed and Max is in command, they have been sent to earth by the scientists of planet Terra to observe and film the human species. Once each human scenario is captured on tape it is edited and beamed back to the alien planet where the families have become fixated, it is like watching a favourite soap. The characters aliens, humans and pets are mainly as a whole lovable.
This book was so amusing I was walking down the street reading it, gaining strange looks in the process each time I laughed out loud.
However be warned the book just stops dead like it crashed right into a planet, worse case scenario it ended on such a cliff hanger I cannot quite get my head around it. I now know how the Terries feel, I am saying no more because I hate spoilers. You will be relieve to know however, that Book 2 is already out. Aliens the Sequel: True Colours (Aliens Guide Book 2)
Needless to say loved this book with a passion. A truly amusing read. I urge you to read it for yourself if you love humorous SciFi :-)
The aliens have landed and Max is in command, they have been sent to earth by the scientists of planet Terra to observe and film the human species. Once each human scenario is captured on tape it is edited and beamed back to the alien planet where the families have become fixated, it is like watching a favourite soap. The characters aliens, humans and pets are mainly as a whole lovable.
This book was so amusing I was walking down the street reading it, gaining strange looks in the process each time I laughed out loud.
However be warned the book just stops dead like it crashed right into a planet, worse case scenario it ended on such a cliff hanger I cannot quite get my head around it. I now know how the Terries feel, I am saying no more because I hate spoilers. You will be relieve to know however, that Book 2 is already out. Aliens the Sequel: True Colours (Aliens Guide Book 2)
Needless to say loved this book with a passion. A truly amusing read. I urge you to read it for yourself if you love humorous SciFi :-)
May 19, 2017
This story is memorable and enjoyable. I was almost put off at the beginning as it appeared childish to start with, but once into the story I found it fun and entertaining. Occasionally, it drifted away from the main plot, but I the story and its perspective were very interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed this book, even though I'm not very keen on spiders :)
January 19, 2018
While the idea behind the book is a good one, the writing itself is very matter-of-fact and flat.
There's a subtle but important difference in being told a story and being told of a series of events. The characters may as well be cardboard cut-outs they are so 2-dimensional and the plot is lost in a tedious list of things these characters do. They don't do much.
The plot itself is an interesting idea, it is well-edited with no errors, but the writing needs a lot of work and perhaps some rethinking.
There's a subtle but important difference in being told a story and being told of a series of events. The characters may as well be cardboard cut-outs they are so 2-dimensional and the plot is lost in a tedious list of things these characters do. They don't do much.
The plot itself is an interesting idea, it is well-edited with no errors, but the writing needs a lot of work and perhaps some rethinking.
May 17, 2013
This wasn't an easy book to read. The premise was good - especially the final section of the last chapter, and the sections on the spiders that were dotted through the book. However, I found much of the narrative to be boring and long-winded.
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