Alien Earth, Phase 3

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

560 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2008

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]

Mit "Alien Earth, Phase 3" löst Borsch die Rätsel auf, die er in den beiden vorhergegangenen Bänden aufgeworfen hat, auf. Naturgemäß ist es so, daß man, nach einem so hervorragenden Auftaktband wie "Alien Earth Phase 1", dem sogar ein Theaterstück zugrunde gelegt wurde, große Erwartungen geweckt hat, die man in den weiteren Bänden kaum erfüllen kann. So ging es auch Borsch mit diesem Abschlußband, war doch die Auflösung wenig überraschend und insgesamt zu konventionell, insgesamt aber muß die gesamte Trilogie in der Betrachtung mit einbezogen werden...
Dennoch war die "Alien Earth Trilogie" ein großer Schritt für die deutsche SF, die mit Autoren wie Andreas Eschbach, Frank Schätzing, herausragende Arbeiten verlegt hatten, denen nun auch Autoren wie Andreas Brandhorst und Frank Borsch folgen können und mehr für die Zukunft versprechen...

[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.