We live on a remarkable planet. For us, life is commonplace, but as best we understand the universe at this point, life is astonishingly rare. Hollywood has aliens attacking Earth, plundering mineral resources or sucking water from our oceans, but the reality is, these commodities are found in absurd abundance throughout space.
If an intelligent alien species ever does come across Earth, the jewel they will seek is one we can freely share: Life.
From an alien’s perspective, it would be fascinating to explore the diversity of life on Earth. They’ll want to understand our evolutionary pedigree and will probably spend more time in museums and universities than they ever will at the White House.
Any alien intelligence that reaches Earth is going to be far more interested in our art, music and literature than they will be in world domination. You won’t find them buzzing around in flying saucers making crop circles, they’ll be on archeological excavations, or conducting biodiversity surveys of our jungles and rainforests, or helping out on a paleontological dig, as that’s where the true riches of Earth lie. Life is the greatest treasure.
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Anomaly examines the prospect of an alien intelligence discovering life on Earth.
Mankind’s first contact with an alien intelligence is far more radical than anyone has ever dared imagine. The technological gulf between mankind and the alien species is measured in terms of millions of years. The only way to communicate is using science, but not everyone is so patient with the arrival of an alien space craft outside the gates of the United Nations in New York.
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The Road to Hell deals with a futuristic world and the advent of limited time travel. It explores social issues such as the nature of trust and the conflict between loyalty and honesty.
Monsters is a dystopian novel set against the backdrop of the collapse of civilization.
The fallout from a passing comet contains a biological pathogen, not a virus or a living organism, just a collection of amino acids, but these cause animals to revert to the age of the mega-fauna, when monsters roamed Earth.
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This volume contains the novellas:
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Feedback. Twenty years ago, a UFO crashed into the Yellow Sea off the Korean Peninsula. The only survivor was a young English-speaking child, captured by the North Koreans. Two decades later, a physics student watches his girlfriend disappear before his eyes, abducted from the streets of New York by what appears to be the same UFO.
Feedback will carry you from the desolate, windswept coastline of North Korea to the bustling streets of New York and on into the depths of space as you journey to the outer edge of our solar system looking for answers.
Little Green Men is a tribute to the works of Philip K. Dick, hailing back to classic science fiction stories of the 1950s.
The crew of the Dei Gratia set down on a frozen planet and are attacked by little green men. Chief Science Officer David Michaels struggles with the impossible situation unfolding around him as the crew are murdered one by one. With the engines offline and power fading, he races against time to understand this mysterious threat and escape the planet alive.
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Copyright
Copyright © Peter Cawdron 2013
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The right of Peter Cawdron to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
First published as an eBook by Peter Cawdron at Smashwords
eBook ISBN: 978-1301014286
Physical ISBN-13: 978-1490568232
CreateSpace ISBN-10: 1490568239
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All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental