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Books : Hard Landing (Questar Science Fiction)In association with Amazon.comby: Algis Budrys  List Price: $4.99 Price: $1.45 You Save: $3.54 (71%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780446362351 ISBN: 0446362352 Label: Warner Books Manufacturer: Warner Books Number Of Items: 1 Publication Date: 1993-03 Publisher: Warner Books Studio: Warner Books Sales Rank: 2094050 Editorial Review: Product Description: After crashing on Earth, four stranded aliens must try to blend into the primitive society they find, but when one of them sells technological secrets to an influential congressman, they are all suddenly in grave danger. Reprint. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Interesting and enjoyableWritten in the form of a research journal, Hard Landing contains interviews, personal accounts, and other documentation about five ETs who find themselves in exile on earth during the Cold War. Unlike so many books, Budrys was able to make the format work while telling the story of what became of the ETs following the crash of their ship right up to their deaths. I've given this book a fifth star, just because the author was masterful enough to make the format work without making his ... Read More Rating:  - Welcome BackAlgis Budrys' first novel to appear in fifteen years, Hard Landing begins with report of an electocuted man found lying on the tracks of the Burrow Street station in Shoreview, Illinois. The story Budrys goes on to tell is a tale ripped from the pages of a supermarket tabloid. A starship crash lands in a New Jersey swamp, its passengers, human in appearence, scatter, each forced to find their own way in an alien world, living the rest of their lives among the human race. Like much of ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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