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Clowns (First Contact) Kindle Edition
Peter Cawdron (Author) See search results for this author |
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First Contact occurred a decade ago with a traveling circus in the high-altitude desert plateau of Uzbekistan. The US Government has been covertly monitoring extraterrestrial activity around Earth since then but has struggled to make contact. They've kept tabs on the circus and its founder, Buster Al-Hashimi.
Four years ago, Buster returned to the US to start a counter-culture group called The Clowns, challenging the sociopolitical status quo in America.
Clowns asks the question: What would an extraterrestrial intelligence think about our intelligence?
FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels that explore humanity's first interaction with extraterrestrial life. This series is similar to BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE in that the series is based on a common theme rather than common characters. This allows these books to be read in any order. Technically, they're all first as they all deal with how we might initially respond to contact with aliens, exploring the social, political, religious, and scientific aspects of First Contact.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication date20 May 2022
- File size831 KB
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Product details
- ASIN : B09Z68XB2D
- Language : English
- File size : 831 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 473 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 20,519 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 71 in Hard Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- 108 in Hard Science Fiction (Books)
- 108 in High Tech Science Fiction
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About the author

Peter is a New Zealand Australian science fiction writer, specialising in making hard science fiction easy to understand and thoroughly enjoyable.
His FIRST CONTACT series is topical rather than character-based, meaning each book stands alone. These novels can be read in any order, but they all focus on the same topic of First Contact with extraterrestrial lifeforms. In this regard, the series is akin to BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE.
Hard science fiction is a misnomer as far as categories of literature go, as it sounds harsh and difficult to understand, but that is far from reality. Hard science fiction is simply plausible science fiction, fiction that is written in such a way as it conforms to the known laws of science, and that makes it more interesting, as there's no magic wand the protagonist can wave to get out of trouble. Peter's forays into hard science fiction could best be described as informative science fiction or enjoyable science fiction.
Peter is a fan of such classic science fiction writers as Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Crichton and their influence on his style and story lines is readily apparent. You can follow Peter on Facebook or Twitter or find him posting some interesting tibit on his blog http://thinkingscifi.wordpress.com/
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This is his best work I've read so far. The writing is mature, confident, and most importantly engaging. Great characters, a complex set of problems that are packed up in an adventure that leaves one thinking, what next?
Just in case you are the kind of reader that reads afterwords first... don't be put off by the over earnest afterword, which was totally unnecessary, because the story is told well enough that it needs no explanation.
I have read many of Peter's "First Contact" series , but this is far and away the best one. I implore anyone who reads this to beg, borrow or steal any one of this series because you will be in for the ride of your life. Many thanks to Peter Cawdron for his stories and please let there be many more of them.