Alien Morning

Wilber, Rick

ISBN 10: 0765332906 / ISBN 13: 9780765332905

Published by Tor Books, 2016

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Synopsis:

“Rick Wilber has written the best "first contact" story I've seen in decades: deeply human, eerily alien, and altogether an exciting, moving and thought-provoking novel.” --Ben Bova

The fate of two civilizations depends on one troubled family in Rick Wilber's science-fiction adventure Alien Morning.

Peter Holman is a freelance sweeper. The year 2030 sees a new era in social media with sweepcasting, a multisensory interface that can convey every thought, touch, smell, sight, and sound, immersing the audience in another person's experience.

By fate, chance, or some darker design, Peter is perfectly positioned to be the one human to document the arrival of the aliens, the S'hudonni.

The S'hudonni offer advanced science in exchange for various trade goods from Earth. But nothing is as simple as it seems. Peter finds himself falling for, Heather Newsome a scientist chosen by the S'hudonni to act as their liaison. Engaged to his brilliant marine biologist brother, Tom, Heather is not what she seems. But Peter has bigger problems. While he and his brother fight over long-standing family troubles, another issue looms: a secret war among the aliens, who are neither as benevolent nor as unified as they first seemed.

Peter slowly learns secrets he was never meant to know, about the S'hudonni, and about his own family. Realizing that he has been used, he can only try to turn his situation around, to save what he can of his life and of the future of Earth.

About the Author: RICK WILBER is an award-winning writer and editor who has published a half-dozen novels and short-story collections, several college textbooks on writing and the mass media, and more than fifty short stories in major markets, including several published in Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine that are set in the same near-future as Alien Day. He has won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History for the story, “Something Real,” and his previous S’hudonni Empire novel, Alien Morning, was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He lives in Florida.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Alien Morning
Publisher: Tor Books
Publication Date: 2016
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good