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From a world far beyond our own, the ultimate invasion is here.
Alien horror becomes a living nightmare as the xenos, meaning “strangers”, inflict mayhem on earth. International distress alerts are sent out when planes first seem to disappear, disturbing concepts of space and time and leaving a trail of death and disillusionment.
This bizarre series of “cosmic skyjackings” is shrouded in secrecy by a baffled and frightened military. Intense surveillance fails to reveal the cause of a seemingly hostile yet invisible enemy.
Aircraft continue to disappear, plucked out of the sky without warning, only to reappear months later, thousands of miles off course. National and global security is under threat and the ICARUS committee is formed to investigate.
Military officials, the government and the FBI work alongside physician Mark Freedman and Soviet scientists to uncover the supernatural mystery that lies behind these unexplainable events.
Earth has been found by a horde of creatures that not even the wildest imagination could invent – sinister parasitic creatures that took to their human hosts with deadly speed and bloodthirsty precision.
The terror that unfolds has terrifying consequences for all involved, and the invasion reveals something much more frightening and final than ever suspected.
Earth Has Been Found is a gripping and chilling first contact sci fi novel, from classic science fiction author D. F. Jones.
Alien horror becomes a living nightmare as the xenos, meaning “strangers”, inflict mayhem on earth. International distress alerts are sent out when planes first seem to disappear, disturbing concepts of space and time and leaving a trail of death and disillusionment.
This bizarre series of “cosmic skyjackings” is shrouded in secrecy by a baffled and frightened military. Intense surveillance fails to reveal the cause of a seemingly hostile yet invisible enemy.
Aircraft continue to disappear, plucked out of the sky without warning, only to reappear months later, thousands of miles off course. National and global security is under threat and the ICARUS committee is formed to investigate.
Military officials, the government and the FBI work alongside physician Mark Freedman and Soviet scientists to uncover the supernatural mystery that lies behind these unexplainable events.
Earth has been found by a horde of creatures that not even the wildest imagination could invent – sinister parasitic creatures that took to their human hosts with deadly speed and bloodthirsty precision.
The terror that unfolds has terrifying consequences for all involved, and the invasion reveals something much more frightening and final than ever suspected.
Earth Has Been Found is a gripping and chilling first contact sci fi novel, from classic science fiction author D. F. Jones.
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First published January 1, 1979
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December 16, 2017
Military sci-fi horror that takes the xenomorphs from ALIEN and turns them into fart-propelled invaders that can fly through the air on jet-propelled flatulence from their rocket-butts.
June 20, 2024
Definitely an odd little book, but after finishing it, I am still not sure what Jones was aiming for. The first hundred pages or so built a good creep factor, and the overall horror aspect came through in parts, but Jones bogged this down with simplistic religious philosophy that easily could have been omitted.
In 1974 or so, an F-4 fighter 'went missing' on a test flight in California; several months later the plane appeared near Guam and crashed. The Russians had something similar happen with a cargo plane, and then a jumbo 747 went missing after leaving France and appeared, several months later outside of Omaha. What gives? The US government is baffled, as is the USSR, and they agree to share notes. Remember the cold war? This story oozes with it!
While neither the US or the Russians can explain what is going on with the planes, the people on them have no memories of anything odd at all; one minute they were leaving France, the next over Nebraska. Same with the Russian crew. Yet, a few months later, all the people on the planes start developing strange cysts which hatch into nasty little parasites deemed 'xenos', which then go on to kill and/or suck the blood of humans while flying around on their farts (no joke!).
I liked the strange, outré aspect of the planes and xenos, but Jones quickly marginalized this in favor of a discussion of god(s). What strange entity induced the planes to go missing and then return them? Obviously, they are godlike. What do they want with humanity? The poor Russians, living under an atheist dictatorship are stunned with the talk of god, but they cannot explain the aliens any better, or what the nasty little farting parasites are doing...
Lots of potential here. Jones' pity prose takes a bit to get used to, as well as his opinions on life narrated by the characters, but if he just kept this to a alien invasion story, this could have been a winner. 2 farting parasites.
In 1974 or so, an F-4 fighter 'went missing' on a test flight in California; several months later the plane appeared near Guam and crashed. The Russians had something similar happen with a cargo plane, and then a jumbo 747 went missing after leaving France and appeared, several months later outside of Omaha. What gives? The US government is baffled, as is the USSR, and they agree to share notes. Remember the cold war? This story oozes with it!
While neither the US or the Russians can explain what is going on with the planes, the people on them have no memories of anything odd at all; one minute they were leaving France, the next over Nebraska. Same with the Russian crew. Yet, a few months later, all the people on the planes start developing strange cysts which hatch into nasty little parasites deemed 'xenos', which then go on to kill and/or suck the blood of humans while flying around on their farts (no joke!).
I liked the strange, outré aspect of the planes and xenos, but Jones quickly marginalized this in favor of a discussion of god(s). What strange entity induced the planes to go missing and then return them? Obviously, they are godlike. What do they want with humanity? The poor Russians, living under an atheist dictatorship are stunned with the talk of god, but they cannot explain the aliens any better, or what the nasty little farting parasites are doing...
Lots of potential here. Jones' pity prose takes a bit to get used to, as well as his opinions on life narrated by the characters, but if he just kept this to a alien invasion story, this could have been a winner. 2 farting parasites.
March 16, 2010
Imagine if John Wyndham had written Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That's Earth Has Been Found in a nutshell.
Planes are disappearing in mid-air and reappearing months, years, or even decades later on the other side of the world. Many of the pilots crash from disorientation, but several manage to put down safely. The passengers and crews have no recollection of the intervening time, and timepieces show that no more than a minute passed between the disappearances and reappearances. The US government labels the phenomenon as ICARUS and tries to keep it secret, though that proves impossible as more and more planes disappear.
The time travelers show no ill-effects -- in fact, they're healthier than ever. But Mark Freedman, a doctor in Abdera Hollow, New York, the home of a tour group that has been affected by ICARUS, notices something odd: many of his patients have developed a desire for raw liver. These patients soon drop into comas and develop cysts that hatch alien creatures.
These critters, named Xenos by Doc Freedman, are intelligent but non-sapient bugs. In their larval form, they're able to shoot a lethal venom from their tails, but after pupating they become vampiric as well. Scientists conclude that Xenos are not responsible for ICARUS, but are instead parasites that, in a reverse of War of the Worlds, were accidentally sent to Earth by the ICARUS entities.
The book follows a three act structure -- the first details the ICARUS mystery; the second the emergence of the larval Xenos; and finally the government's attempts to contain the Xenos -- with a framing story in the far future which -- well, let's just say, the John Wyndham comparison isn't for nothing. The prologue and epilogue have a very Chrysalids vibe.
One of the more interesting threads in the last half of the book is how people begin to think the ICARUS entities, with their ability to bend time and space, might be gods. This is a nice reversal of all those Arthur C. Clarke novels where first contact turns everyone into atheists -- here atheists suddenly start to believe. Unfortunately, this isn't handled well. For one thing, a god with lice isn't much of a god. (To be fair, Jones has a character make this point, though no one pays him any mind.) For another, no one ever says, "Sure, they could be gods. Or they could be aliens with sufficiently advanced technology." The Soviet leadership reacts as though ICARUS is definitive proof of god and refutation Marxist materialism. In the hands of someone like Robert Charles Wilson, this subplot could be great, but Jones flubs it, which undermines the ending.
Planes are disappearing in mid-air and reappearing months, years, or even decades later on the other side of the world. Many of the pilots crash from disorientation, but several manage to put down safely. The passengers and crews have no recollection of the intervening time, and timepieces show that no more than a minute passed between the disappearances and reappearances. The US government labels the phenomenon as ICARUS and tries to keep it secret, though that proves impossible as more and more planes disappear.
The time travelers show no ill-effects -- in fact, they're healthier than ever. But Mark Freedman, a doctor in Abdera Hollow, New York, the home of a tour group that has been affected by ICARUS, notices something odd: many of his patients have developed a desire for raw liver. These patients soon drop into comas and develop cysts that hatch alien creatures.
These critters, named Xenos by Doc Freedman, are intelligent but non-sapient bugs. In their larval form, they're able to shoot a lethal venom from their tails, but after pupating they become vampiric as well. Scientists conclude that Xenos are not responsible for ICARUS, but are instead parasites that, in a reverse of War of the Worlds, were accidentally sent to Earth by the ICARUS entities.
The book follows a three act structure -- the first details the ICARUS mystery; the second the emergence of the larval Xenos; and finally the government's attempts to contain the Xenos -- with a framing story in the far future which -- well, let's just say, the John Wyndham comparison isn't for nothing. The prologue and epilogue have a very Chrysalids vibe.
One of the more interesting threads in the last half of the book is how people begin to think the ICARUS entities, with their ability to bend time and space, might be gods. This is a nice reversal of all those Arthur C. Clarke novels where first contact turns everyone into atheists -- here atheists suddenly start to believe. Unfortunately, this isn't handled well. For one thing, a god with lice isn't much of a god. (To be fair, Jones has a character make this point, though no one pays him any mind.) For another, no one ever says, "Sure, they could be gods. Or they could be aliens with sufficiently advanced technology." The Soviet leadership reacts as though ICARUS is definitive proof of god and refutation Marxist materialism. In the hands of someone like Robert Charles Wilson, this subplot could be great, but Jones flubs it, which undermines the ending.
May 10, 2019
Overall, a very good book. Suffers from some pacing issues, ie: the first 100 or so pages are very slow. That said, there are some very effective passages and the whole novel is a good, unsettling read overall. I felt like it delved into religion in a weird way, kind of only to tie into the bizarre wrap around prologue and epilogue. But, I was glad in a way that Jones went so deep into Communist atheism, because I didn't know about that prior to reading this book! A decent read, but pretty dense and slow for a late 70s potboiler, took me about 6 weeks to finish, which is awhile for a 265 page book.
February 16, 2016
I was very intrigued by the cover of this book, so I bought it off Amazon. I’m very glad I did. I don’t think this book is short, but it only took a couple of days to read it since I couldn’t put it down! It’s a science fiction thriller that takes place in 1984 or prior.
We know that airplanes have been disappearing for years. Some are never found and no traces of them are ever located; they are just gone. In this book, some of these missing airplanes start to reappear, suddenly and with drastic consequences. It starts off with an F-4 taking off from a base in California in April of 1974, only to reappear near Guam in August 1974. Now I don’t believe an F-4 can fly for four or five months on the same tank of fuel nor can it fly from the coast of California to near Guam, a distance of 9,333 km (or 5,800 miles) without refueling. Yet, the very disoriented pilot reported he had sixty percent fuel left from what to him had just been a short routine test flight. He was definitely lost and didn’t know how he got to Guam. So startled that he missed his landing on Guam and crashed with fatal results.
Even the Russians get into the book. They have a Ilyushin flying freight in March of 1976. It disappears and nothing is every located of it’s supposed crash. Then in mid-January 1977, it’s found flying over the Arctic Ocean headed for a place in Siberia. The Russians quickly intercept the plane and successfully get it to land. Both pilot and co-pilot cannot understand what happened. They feel they have only been gone for a few minutes, yet they take off in spring and are found again in mid-winter no where near their origin or destination. Both seem healthy, even better than healthy for awhile.
Of course, the United States has put together a crack team of experts trying to figure out what is going on with these planes. Where have they gone and what happened to them during the time they were out of sync with the rest of the world? Then, in September of 1984, another plane went missing with a total of over 90 people on-board. Most were elderly with a few younger ones including the flight crew. They came back too, in December of 1984, and something came with them.
It’s a good thing this stuff didn’t really happen in 1984. I might not be sitting here writing a review. Still, the reading was great. Good sentence structure although there were a little too many words misspelled or just used wrong. It seemed like the spell checker got carried away. A great book to read, just remember though, it isn’t real.
We know that airplanes have been disappearing for years. Some are never found and no traces of them are ever located; they are just gone. In this book, some of these missing airplanes start to reappear, suddenly and with drastic consequences. It starts off with an F-4 taking off from a base in California in April of 1974, only to reappear near Guam in August 1974. Now I don’t believe an F-4 can fly for four or five months on the same tank of fuel nor can it fly from the coast of California to near Guam, a distance of 9,333 km (or 5,800 miles) without refueling. Yet, the very disoriented pilot reported he had sixty percent fuel left from what to him had just been a short routine test flight. He was definitely lost and didn’t know how he got to Guam. So startled that he missed his landing on Guam and crashed with fatal results.
Even the Russians get into the book. They have a Ilyushin flying freight in March of 1976. It disappears and nothing is every located of it’s supposed crash. Then in mid-January 1977, it’s found flying over the Arctic Ocean headed for a place in Siberia. The Russians quickly intercept the plane and successfully get it to land. Both pilot and co-pilot cannot understand what happened. They feel they have only been gone for a few minutes, yet they take off in spring and are found again in mid-winter no where near their origin or destination. Both seem healthy, even better than healthy for awhile.
Of course, the United States has put together a crack team of experts trying to figure out what is going on with these planes. Where have they gone and what happened to them during the time they were out of sync with the rest of the world? Then, in September of 1984, another plane went missing with a total of over 90 people on-board. Most were elderly with a few younger ones including the flight crew. They came back too, in December of 1984, and something came with them.
It’s a good thing this stuff didn’t really happen in 1984. I might not be sitting here writing a review. Still, the reading was great. Good sentence structure although there were a little too many words misspelled or just used wrong. It seemed like the spell checker got carried away. A great book to read, just remember though, it isn’t real.
January 23, 2016
For fans of the television series, THE X-FILES, this one may be just the ticket even though the story was written long before that series was first broadcast. It is heavy on military jargon and technical explanations, so I suppose it would seem as if it was narrated by Dana Scully. However, it is filled with the elements that made that series so popular.
Initially, I wondered if I would care for the book. The descriptions seemed a bit cold and the matter-of-fact style of narration reduced my involvement. However, the writer soon introduced characters that I enjoyed and the circumstances became especially intriguing. It never reaches the wide-eyed, "scientist as the savior of all" status of many 1950's science fiction tales. In fact, his characters have all too human obsessions with sex and alcohol which were generally skirted in that era's stories.
Two themes stood out for me. Although this was written in the 1970's, the events occur in 1984. Society is about to experience a dramatic upheaval and a very different kind of control, so the nod to George Orwell is fun.
The less successful theme was a link to God (or gods) intervening in our lives. It was an interesting side concept, but one that is never sufficiently developed to have much impact. For me, the references only served as a distraction from the narrative.
The writer is probably most famous for his COLOSSUS trilogy, the story of the intelligent super computer that movie fans will remember from COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT. This book demonstrates that his fascination with unusual "invasion" stories from unexpected sources has gone unabated.
Like THE X-FILES, "The truth is out there." And although Mulder and Scully would have been pursuing a government cover-up which is definitely in place, the real Truth is beyond anything that the governments could hope to contain.
This was a great deal of fun and I recommend it.
Initially, I wondered if I would care for the book. The descriptions seemed a bit cold and the matter-of-fact style of narration reduced my involvement. However, the writer soon introduced characters that I enjoyed and the circumstances became especially intriguing. It never reaches the wide-eyed, "scientist as the savior of all" status of many 1950's science fiction tales. In fact, his characters have all too human obsessions with sex and alcohol which were generally skirted in that era's stories.
Two themes stood out for me. Although this was written in the 1970's, the events occur in 1984. Society is about to experience a dramatic upheaval and a very different kind of control, so the nod to George Orwell is fun.
The less successful theme was a link to God (or gods) intervening in our lives. It was an interesting side concept, but one that is never sufficiently developed to have much impact. For me, the references only served as a distraction from the narrative.
The writer is probably most famous for his COLOSSUS trilogy, the story of the intelligent super computer that movie fans will remember from COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT. This book demonstrates that his fascination with unusual "invasion" stories from unexpected sources has gone unabated.
Like THE X-FILES, "The truth is out there." And although Mulder and Scully would have been pursuing a government cover-up which is definitely in place, the real Truth is beyond anything that the governments could hope to contain.
This was a great deal of fun and I recommend it.
March 28, 2018
A United States Air Force jet fighter on a test flight vanishes from the California skies . . . and reappears four months later near Guam. Two years later, a Russian cargo plane experiences a similar disappearance, with its crew completely unaware that ten months have passed for them. As the American and Soviet governments investigate the parallel cases, a jumbo jet returning tourists to New York from Paris also disappears over the Atlantic Ocean, only to reappear over the continental United States weeks later. Though initially the people involved seem little affected by their disappearance, over time they begin to experience unusual cravings, then suddenly develop cysts and lapse into comas which signal the arrival of a new type of alien invader . . .
Best known for his “Colossus” trilogy, Dennis Feltham Jones was a former British naval officer who authored over a half-dozen science fiction novels during a fifteen-year period. This, his penultimate work, exhibits all of his strengths and weaknesses as a writer within the genre. The concept at the heart of his novel, the emergence of invasive species, is eerily prescient to readers living in a world increasingly concerned with the consequences of exotic flora and fauna appearing in different habitats. Yet most of the characters remain stuck in two dimensions throughout the novel, often displaying a curious lassitude that negates much of the tension Jones tries to build. Most disappointing of all, though, is Jones’s clumsy injection of religion into the book. What might have provided a refreshing take on the alien-invasion novel instead seems little more than a Cold-War era commentary on the emptiness of Soviet ideology. This cheapens rather than enriches his work, which is enjoyable enough but lacks the power that Jones seems to have wanted his work to have.
Best known for his “Colossus” trilogy, Dennis Feltham Jones was a former British naval officer who authored over a half-dozen science fiction novels during a fifteen-year period. This, his penultimate work, exhibits all of his strengths and weaknesses as a writer within the genre. The concept at the heart of his novel, the emergence of invasive species, is eerily prescient to readers living in a world increasingly concerned with the consequences of exotic flora and fauna appearing in different habitats. Yet most of the characters remain stuck in two dimensions throughout the novel, often displaying a curious lassitude that negates much of the tension Jones tries to build. Most disappointing of all, though, is Jones’s clumsy injection of religion into the book. What might have provided a refreshing take on the alien-invasion novel instead seems little more than a Cold-War era commentary on the emptiness of Soviet ideology. This cheapens rather than enriches his work, which is enjoyable enough but lacks the power that Jones seems to have wanted his work to have.
June 8, 2016
An older story - written in the 70s - from the same author who brought us Colossus this story follows a group of doctors, scientists and military people set in the very early 1980s when planes that had disappeared months or even decades earlier suddenly reappear in the sky. The people on board the planes have no memory of time passing and seem to have not experienced any time. One moment they were in their own time and suddenly they are in (to them) the future.
The mystery deepens when the returnees begin to fall into comas and soon we learn that alien parasites have come to the world with them. Is this an invasion force sent by the mighty other dimensional beings who could pluck planes out of space time only to return them elsewhere? Is it a mere parasite from these beings that they don't notice but which is a dire threat to humanity.
The story is definitely old fashioned by today's standards in that there is a lot of 'telling' of the action rather than 'showing' but it's fast and gripping. I didn't want to put it down.
The ending is both predictable (if you pay attention along the way) and shocking in that it is not what you normally expect in an invasion type tale.
Dark, and gripping as long as you can ignore the dated stereotypes of people contained within.
The mystery deepens when the returnees begin to fall into comas and soon we learn that alien parasites have come to the world with them. Is this an invasion force sent by the mighty other dimensional beings who could pluck planes out of space time only to return them elsewhere? Is it a mere parasite from these beings that they don't notice but which is a dire threat to humanity.
The story is definitely old fashioned by today's standards in that there is a lot of 'telling' of the action rather than 'showing' but it's fast and gripping. I didn't want to put it down.
The ending is both predictable (if you pay attention along the way) and shocking in that it is not what you normally expect in an invasion type tale.
Dark, and gripping as long as you can ignore the dated stereotypes of people contained within.
June 10, 2024
This was another quick random grab for me and I guess I'm on a roll with finding books i enjoy lately. I didn't like the very end I'd have liked to see how much more it would evolve and spread.
Update: just released these bugs get around like the tremors from the 3rd movie kinda.. butt fart propulsion.
Update: just released these bugs get around like the tremors from the 3rd movie kinda.. butt fart propulsion.
February 16, 2016
What a ride! This one started out good and just got better and better. I shall be reading more of this D F Jones! It does cry out for a sequel though. Great read!
January 21, 2021
A pleasant surprise
This was better than I had any right to expect given the look of the book and the publication date. I guess I have learnt not to jump to conclusion on a tome based solely on its outside appearance... if only there was a simpler phrase to remember this.
I was really thinking it would be enjoyably trashy, and probably dated (the late 70s were a different time), but turns out it wasn't.
The issue I take with it is that it's written as if it was the first book of a cycle - it takes you through the first third of the "full story" and hints at more, but there isn't anymore. I wonder if Jones meant to write some more, and didn't get the chance (or thought better of it).
Suddenly this throws the whole thing into a different perspective - There's a huge Deus Ex Machina at the beginning rather than at the traditional end, and it doesn't even get an attempt at an explanation.
The book does have great pacing, though - it reads quickly, and flows well (well, until you realise it's got the last two-thirds missing) In fact, it's to its credit you don't even get to read about the creature until halfway through the book.... and you need to read half of the rest before the second appearance, and so on.
It's... (wait for it) ...
Xeno's paradox!
This was better than I had any right to expect given the look of the book and the publication date. I guess I have learnt not to jump to conclusion on a tome based solely on its outside appearance... if only there was a simpler phrase to remember this.
I was really thinking it would be enjoyably trashy, and probably dated (the late 70s were a different time), but turns out it wasn't.
The issue I take with it is that it's written as if it was the first book of a cycle - it takes you through the first third of the "full story" and hints at more, but there isn't anymore. I wonder if Jones meant to write some more, and didn't get the chance (or thought better of it).
Suddenly this throws the whole thing into a different perspective - There's a huge Deus Ex Machina at the beginning rather than at the traditional end, and it doesn't even get an attempt at an explanation.
The book does have great pacing, though - it reads quickly, and flows well (well, until you realise it's got the last two-thirds missing) In fact, it's to its credit you don't even get to read about the creature until halfway through the book.... and you need to read half of the rest before the second appearance, and so on.
It's... (wait for it) ...
Xeno's paradox!
July 2, 2019
Earth Has Been Found by D.F. Jones
This is an end of the world, sci-fi novel in the tradition of Michael Crichton's science-based thrillers. It is a slowly unwinding mystery where the plot is king, not necessarily the characters. The author even jokes about this in the denouement.
Planes are plucked out of the sky, then returned months, years or decades later. The fliers are being returned intact. But they are carrying extra cargo, a parasitic bug-like invasive species.
From there develops a matter-of-fact race between scientists and this species. Even the cold war between the Soviets and Americans is almost put on hold.
Unfortunately the author's suggested theological implications of the species incursion are a little iffy.
The why of the planes disappearing is never answered. There are hints that the disappearances are due to super-human creatures who merely regard the species as a nuisance.
This novel was written before the terms "wormholes" and "invasive species" were widely used, so I was impressed during my second reading of it four decades later.
This is an end of the world, sci-fi novel in the tradition of Michael Crichton's science-based thrillers. It is a slowly unwinding mystery where the plot is king, not necessarily the characters. The author even jokes about this in the denouement.
Planes are plucked out of the sky, then returned months, years or decades later. The fliers are being returned intact. But they are carrying extra cargo, a parasitic bug-like invasive species.
From there develops a matter-of-fact race between scientists and this species. Even the cold war between the Soviets and Americans is almost put on hold.
Unfortunately the author's suggested theological implications of the species incursion are a little iffy.
The why of the planes disappearing is never answered. There are hints that the disappearances are due to super-human creatures who merely regard the species as a nuisance.
This novel was written before the terms "wormholes" and "invasive species" were widely used, so I was impressed during my second reading of it four decades later.
November 30, 2024
I thought too much time was spent setting up the situation, so that it dragged, but the rest of the story was rather rushed. No sooner was the enemy understood, than we’re at the end. And not a happy one. Given the ending of the other books I’ve read by Jones, I shouldn’t have been surprised.
The zeno are really creepy, but the people in charge are maybe too creeped out. They do stupid things like watching the creature come forth without any protective gear; fall apart after seeing them. And I thought the “let’s keep this a secret from everyone” a bit overplayed. Especially since, in the end, it was probably their biggest mistake.
And I didn’t understand the connection to god. Jones seemed to be under the impression that extraterrestrials means there’s a god, that the USSR will fall apart because there being a god will destroy the premise behind communism. He doesn’t explain how he got from one thing to the other, which makes it even more confusing. The premise of the book is an interesting one, but one undermined by Jones' going off in tangents.
The zeno are really creepy, but the people in charge are maybe too creeped out. They do stupid things like watching the creature come forth without any protective gear; fall apart after seeing them. And I thought the “let’s keep this a secret from everyone” a bit overplayed. Especially since, in the end, it was probably their biggest mistake.
And I didn’t understand the connection to god. Jones seemed to be under the impression that extraterrestrials means there’s a god, that the USSR will fall apart because there being a god will destroy the premise behind communism. He doesn’t explain how he got from one thing to the other, which makes it even more confusing. The premise of the book is an interesting one, but one undermined by Jones' going off in tangents.
November 21, 2017
A good feel for the science and suspense, reminiscent of John Wyndham. I liked the shocked way the US government reacted to having events out of their control.
March 6, 2019
Really enjoyed this book. Would definitely recommend.
December 24, 2020
Would have been a more enjoyable read if more tightly written - should have cut about 70 pages.
March 14, 2017
Excellent story
Great story slowly building up to it really scary ending , this will keep you awake at night when you're done
Great story slowly building up to it really scary ending , this will keep you awake at night when you're done
August 14, 2011
This is a creepy little science fiction horror movie in a book which gets four stars from me because of the nature ofthe beast more then anything else. Alien insects, think mossies that seem to grow in size, which sting people and lay their eggs in them. When I first read this book it really creeped me out.
Otherwise this book is average, the writings good, the charcters a little on the unbelievable side and the science hokey. But it reads well and as a younger man left me with a good dose of the frights.
Otherwise this book is average, the writings good, the charcters a little on the unbelievable side and the science hokey. But it reads well and as a younger man left me with a good dose of the frights.
March 11, 2016
I don't like science fiction that turns into monster fiction. The aliens don't need to think. There is no connection made to their biology snd their technology. We never get to see the technology, we only get to see the horror of their biology.
I did like revisiting sci-fi of old in that the main character is a scientist in the form of a doctor. Luke heinlein's characters, he even smokes a pipe.
I did like revisiting sci-fi of old in that the main character is a scientist in the form of a doctor. Luke heinlein's characters, he even smokes a pipe.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 28, 2014
My father owned this book when I was a young teenager. As such, I can remember secretly reading this for weeks before he found out. All I can really remember is the Bermida Triangle style disappearances.. and the raw liver eating that ends up with the aliens popping out from under the skin some time later.. and eventually turning the world into an unsafe place overrun with them..
January 24, 2016
Exceptionally good read!
I could hardly put this book down. My only disappointment is that so many questions were left unanswered. I can't believe this isn't continued in another book! This is an entirely new premise and, out of 50+ books I've read in the last year it's the best!! I demand a sequel!
I could hardly put this book down. My only disappointment is that so many questions were left unanswered. I can't believe this isn't continued in another book! This is an entirely new premise and, out of 50+ books I've read in the last year it's the best!! I demand a sequel!
October 2, 2015
This book is published by Venture Press.
January 23, 2016
Good read
A good read. Keeps the reader engaged and not overwhelmed with theory. A good interesting story, escapism at its best.
A good read. Keeps the reader engaged and not overwhelmed with theory. A good interesting story, escapism at its best.
February 4, 2016
Good read
The story flows very well, slightly wordy in spots but not bad, worth the time. This story really needs a followup
The story flows very well, slightly wordy in spots but not bad, worth the time. This story really needs a followup
September 16, 2016
Excellent!
This is an intense novel with a much different approach to alien invasion. I found myself reading much longer sessions than normal for me.
This is an intense novel with a much different approach to alien invasion. I found myself reading much longer sessions than normal for me.
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