Good News from Outer Space
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- Synopsis
- From the book jacket: The year is 1999. The millennium is approaching fast, and America is ready to believe that the World is indeed about to End. The economy is a disaster, despite a complete restructuring of the money supply. Nuclear war in the Middle East has created a new, permanent gasoline shortage. Gene-splicing technology has given political terrorists almost undetectable weapons. Poverty, drugs, disease are rampant in the cities, while the new Christian Fundamentalism has taken almost total control of the countryside. The Church is even running the prison system. The most popular on-line news service in America is the Hemisphere Confidential Report, a computer network descendant of today's supermarket tabloids. George Eberhart is HCR's top reporter and writer-once a legitimate newsman, the crumbling economy has forced him into writing "news" that is little more than fiction. But now George is on to something, something real. He has perceived a pattern in the sensationalist stories he reports, a pattern that has led him to believe that the stories of alien invasion may be something more than hysteria. The Reverend Jimmy-Don Gilray is a TV evangelist, whose Zion Tribulation Hour brings in millions of dollars and converts every day. His message is simple: on the stroke of midnight, December 31, 1999, God will send his messengers to Earth in a spaceship, and the Day of Judgement will dawn. There is nothing that The Rev wants less than some reporter proving that the Aliens are already here. And meanwhile, all over America, strange beings who look human are doing totally inexplicable things - committing acts which seem like meaningless cruelty or kindness to their victims.
- Copyright:
- 1989
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 405 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780312931780
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 11/20/08
- Copyrighted By:
- John Kessel
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy
- Submitted By:
- Roger Drewicke
- Proofread By:
- John Immarino
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.