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The Takeover
July 5, 2041
The takeover of Earth began so discreetly, it went unnoticed by every human being on the planet.
In America, folks had just finished celebrating the second (and, as it turned out, last) Independence Day of the new decade. Long after the celebrations had ended, small bits of matter—“seeds” let’s call them—began falling from the sky like pollen, drifting on the breeze and eventually planting themselves in the earth. Not all of them germinated, but enough did—some five million—to mark the beginning of the end of human supremacy on Earth.
Like all seeds, they represented potential. Tiny dead-looking lumps of matter can sometimes achieve great things. Acorns grow into oaks, cones fall to the ground and become redwoods, and winged maple seeds helicopter down from their parent tree with a full set of instructions on how to grow. So it was with these seeds. Soon they would grow into something unimaginably big.
All they needed was time.
Author’s The Occupy Earth Trilogy is complete and is being released in one-month intervals. The second book, The Occupation, is set to be released on August 5, and the third book, The Resistance, is scheduled for release on September 5.
The takeover of Earth began so discreetly, it went unnoticed by every human being on the planet.
In America, folks had just finished celebrating the second (and, as it turned out, last) Independence Day of the new decade. Long after the celebrations had ended, small bits of matter—“seeds” let’s call them—began falling from the sky like pollen, drifting on the breeze and eventually planting themselves in the earth. Not all of them germinated, but enough did—some five million—to mark the beginning of the end of human supremacy on Earth.
Like all seeds, they represented potential. Tiny dead-looking lumps of matter can sometimes achieve great things. Acorns grow into oaks, cones fall to the ground and become redwoods, and winged maple seeds helicopter down from their parent tree with a full set of instructions on how to grow. So it was with these seeds. Soon they would grow into something unimaginably big.
All they needed was time.
Author’s The Occupy Earth Trilogy is complete and is being released in one-month intervals. The second book, The Occupation, is set to be released on August 5, and the third book, The Resistance, is scheduled for release on September 5.
- GenresScience Fiction
362 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 4, 2024
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About the author
Robert Charlton
11 books1 followerRobert is the author of the "Occupy Earth Trilogy" and "How to Retire Early" as well as several short stories. His crosswords have been published in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He lives in Boulder, Colorado and loves to hike and travel the world with his wife, as documented on www.wherewebe.com.
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July 18, 2024
This story is a slow burn in the best way that somehow manages to shock you as you read, delivering some "oh no" moments along the way. I tore through it in 3 days. It does an excellent job of setting up the rest of the trilogy and I'll be reading on to find out what happens.
March 4, 2025
With quite a lighthearted writing style and some memorable characters, this is the start of a potentially very interesting story. I can't admit to being gripped, but nor was I so bored that I didn't finish it.
December 21, 2025
I wanted to like it but it just got boring. Too much about the people, not enough Scifi. I got to 83%
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