Invasion of the Zernoplat - Roxbrough, Major
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The novel is set in the twenty-third century and is a satire that gets quite politically bigoted for the sake of amusement. A fleet of space vessels are detected by Earths tracking stations as they enter the outer reaches of the solar system. Messages of greeting are met with silence, and after several attempts, it is presumed that they constitute an invasion force. Several world powers have nuclear capabilities, and after a meeting on a global level, it is decided to attack the ships that are growing ever nearer before they can accomplish their mission. The strike is totally successful, and…mehr

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The novel is set in the twenty-third century and is a satire that gets quite politically bigoted for the sake of amusement. A fleet of space vessels are detected by Earths tracking stations as they enter the outer reaches of the solar system. Messages of greeting are met with silence, and after several attempts, it is presumed that they constitute an invasion force. Several world powers have nuclear capabilities, and after a meeting on a global level, it is decided to attack the ships that are growing ever nearer before they can accomplish their mission. The strike is totally successful, and the threatened hysteria dies down. Then a second wave of vessels, exactly as the first are detected, once again ignored every message of enquiry of intent that Earth has sent them. Further warheads are sent to destroy them with total success just as before. It seems that the vessels have no conventional weapons and are unable to defend themselves. While on Earth, looting, murder, and other crimes is rampant during the hysteria. One man, Hakt, begins digging in his backyard to create an underground shelter. He feels certain the end of civilisation is upon them. The first few chapters deal with his experiences, especially when a third wave of craft are detected on their way to Earth. As the various powers all maintaining their nuclear arsenal is exhausted, the ships arrive unmolested. One lands in the Gambia, while the others land on the far side of the moon. A united nation squabbles over who will go to greet the lone vessel. Once the argument subsides, a deputation does indeed approach. A gas is released from the ship, and those it lands on are dissolved to nothing more than grey residue. Not only that; the ships also bathe every conflict theatre currently undergoing war on the whole planet! The tacit aliens have brought peace to Earth, but at what cost?
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Major Roxbrough has written several collections of short stories and novels and is beginning to release them through Xlibris publishing. He is a married man in his early sixties and has a great love for nature and animals. He currently has five cats and two dogs. He has been a prog music fan since his early teens and sites this as a source of inspiration for much of his imaginative output. When writing he draws on sources as diverse as Shakespeare, Monty Python, Blackadder, the Bible and every science fiction film and TV series ever produced. His imagination and sense of humour is warped and very dark indeed and nothing he writes should be taken too seriously. But it is fun! Try some of his work and find out for yourself. Glimpserama short stories set in the thirty third century. Remember Next Week set just after Glimpserama and sequential Axevictim two serials commenced together with further short stories Invasion of the Zernoplat A full length novel set in the same multiverse as all the other tales