Thursday, September 29, 2016

#518 Occupation Force- Frank Herbert


#518 Occupation Force- Frank Herbert

In the classic style of a Frank Herbert Sci-Fi story, we open with a General being awoken and told that an alien ship is orbiting earth and is about to attack. Now all the leaders of the world have gathered. Unaware of the alien ship’s intentions there is a break of two camps:

-Majority opinion: a hostile ship on a mission to conquer earth.
-Minority opinion: a cautious visitor from space.

When a scout ship arrives and asks for landing instructions the communication is surprisingly polite and spoken in perfect English. The “aliens” that greet the General also appear to be human. When the visitors begin talk of colonization of Earth, it is not at all what the General thinks. Surprise…mind=blown!


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