The Siege of Eternity

Frederick Pohl

Book 2 of Eschaton Sequence

Language: English

Publisher: Tor Science Fiction

Published: Jan 1, 1997

Description:

The aliens aren't coming. They're here.

We've captured some of them. Are they our saviors, or are they out to destroy us? We've seen no spaceships, received no ultimatumsbut the aliens may have a more insidious plot....

Government agent Dan Dannerman and astronomer Patrice Adcock were kidnapped by the aliens and have been returned in altered states, cloned and implanted with strange devices. To what end?

Before the reasons behind their abduction can be made clear, a wave of extremist threats and terrorist attacks sweeps the globe. Are the attacks a reaction to the aliens' arrivalor a part of their plan? A race around the earth and into space begins, as humankind desperately tries to prevent the aliens from establishing a beachhead no Earth.

The siege has begun.

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The aliens aren't coming. They're here. We've captured several of them. The human race can't decide. Are they our saviors or out to destroy us? The government has had no luck in their interrogation of their prisoners. We've seen no spaceships, received no ultimatums - but the aliens may have a more insidious plot... Government agent Dan Dannerman, astronomer Patrice Adcock, and several others were kidnapped while investigating the aliens' presence on an orbital laboratory. They have now returned to Earth, but in altered states. Dannerman and Adcock have been cloned. All of them have been implanted with strange alien devices. Nobody knows exactly what happened to them during their abduction - or why they were taken - but Dannerman is determined to find out. Suddenly the Dannermans, the Adcocks, and the government find themselves distracted by a rash of extremist threats and government attacks. But are they a reaction to the aliens' arrival - or are they a part of the aliens' plans?