Alien Earth, Phase 2

by Frank Borsch

A new and exciting sci-fi series from Germany! March 14, 2058: a gigantic space ship appears in the sky over Earth. What happens? – Nothing! No attacks with atomic flashes, no destructive assaults on human civilisation. The space ship simply stays in orbit for several years. Only very gradually does it become evident that the invasion has long since begun … After Andreas Eschbach's bestseller ""Quest"", after Andreas Brandhorst's successful novel on ""Kantaki"", we now have a science fiction series which once and for all shows that German sci-fi need not hide away in the face of the great American and British examples of the genre. Frank Borsch's ALIEN EARTH is a fascinating mixture of Steven Spielberg's ""War of the Worlds"" and William Gibson's cyberpunk novels, written by the best Perry Rhodan author at present. A fascinating new mixture of various sci-fi and mystery elements – one to find lasting popularity with readers. For more information please see www.alienearth.de and Press ""If further proof on what German science fiction can do were necessary, Frank Borsch has provided it with his ALIEN imaginative, innovative, absorbing – this is what good science fiction should be like."" Andreas Brandhorst – creator of the Kantaki Universe ""Colourful and gripping! 'ALIEN EARTH – Phase 1' was one of the few novels recently published that put me in a fever of excitement all day to carry on reading in the evening. There is a mass of science fiction writers you'd like to yell at, 'Look here – THIS is how to do it!"" Andreas Eschbach ""Alien Earth' is definitely a huge imaginative, racy and an enrichment of the German science fiction landscape."" Amazon.de ""Frank Borsch is closer to modern British writers like Charles Stross or Richard Morgan than to American-style Space Opera so popular at present. How naturally his novel joins the ranks of the foreboding Utopias of the late 1960s, with novels like 'Stand on Zanzibar', in which John Brunner presents his view of the world in the 21st century. With 'Phase 1', Frank Borsch has written a novel that looks self-confident and is a highlight in German science-fiction. Klaus N. Frick, editor-in-chief of PERRY RHODAN Author Frank Borsch is one of the young stars in German science fiction and is regarded as one of the most popular writers of the ""Perry Rhodan"" series. The ALIEN EARTH series is his first own sci-fi project.

Genres: Science Fiction

468 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2007

About the author

Frank Borsch is a German author and editor, best known for his contributions to the Perry Rhodan franchise.

He stopped working for the original Perry Rhodan series in 2007, and became the head exposé writer of the Perry Rhodan NEO relaunch in 2011.

Reviews

[reherrma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nach den Geschehnissen im ersten Buch dieser Trilogie, die nahtlos mit Phase 2 fortgesetzt werden, landeten zwei Millionen Aliens um in den Körpern der Menschen zu leben, vielleicht sogar nur, um zu überleben. Aber diese Frage wird auch im Laufe des gesamten Romans nicht beantwortet. Statt dessen hat die Supermacht der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und Arabien ein Kopfgeld auf die Fremden ausgesetzt. Jetzt werden die außerirdischen Lebensformen gesucht und gefunden, nur um sie für die verschiedensten Zwecke zu missbrauchen. Sektierer sehen in ihnen Götter, Wissenschaftler sehen in ihnen Versuchsobjekte, andere sehen in ihnen einfach nur Sklaven...
Borsch gelingt es in diesem Band ein weiteres Mal, der düstern Beschreibung der Erde weitere Bausteine hinzuzusetzen, man kann dieses Buch allerdings auch alleine ohne den Kontext zur Trilogie lesen, eine packende, düstere und eindringliche Darstellung einer nahen Zukunft, von der die meisten Keime schon in unserer Gegenwart gepflanzt wurden...

[Thorsten · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ein verrückter Roman, EXTREM viele Sprünge zwischen den Handlungssträngen, verwirrende "Zwischenkapitel"....
Aber auch irgendwie EXTREM spannend....
Erstere Anmerkung kann aber auch daran liegen das es der zweite Band einer Reihe ist, der auch noch ein offenes Ende aufweist, und ich den ersten Teil nicht kenne.....

[Daniel Schweizer · Rating 3 out of 5]

A mediocre to good German SciFi trilogy about an alien race banned from their home planet and hunted down are in the search for a new home, which they hope to find in Earth. However, their intentions are unclear: do they come in peace or do they want to harm the human race?

Some funny ideas (but also some obscure ones) make this a entertaining read but I'm still no SciFi buff after reading the Alien Earth trilogy and still prefer a good fantasy book (or even better an outstanding series like Harry Potter, The Wheel of Time or the Dark Tower). I cannot recall what exactly happened in this volume.