Black Star Rising
Pohl Frederik
When a mysterious alien
spacecraft approaches Earth and demands to speak with the President of
the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate
its strength and underscore its seriousness, you would expect the
President to talk.
Problem is, in the late twenty-first century,
there is no President - not even a United States. In fact, in this
world of the future, China rules the Americas; and to most people, USA
and USSR are just quaint abbreviations in the historical dictionaries.
Then
the aliens prove unreasonable about accepting substitutes...so one
Anglo rice-cultivator from the Heavenly Grain Collective Farm - near
Biloxi, Mississippi - is forced to begin an adventure that will take him
from peasant to President, from Pettyman to Spaceman.
spacecraft approaches Earth and demands to speak with the President of
the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate
its strength and underscore its seriousness, you would expect the
President to talk.
Problem is, in the late twenty-first century,
there is no President - not even a United States. In fact, in this
world of the future, China rules the Americas; and to most people, USA
and USSR are just quaint abbreviations in the historical dictionaries.
Then
the aliens prove unreasonable about accepting substitutes...so one
Anglo rice-cultivator from the Heavenly Grain Collective Farm - near
Biloxi, Mississippi - is forced to begin an adventure that will take him
from peasant to President, from Pettyman to Spaceman.
カテゴリー:
年:
1986
版:
Paperback
出版社:
Del Rey Books
言語:
english
ページ:
293
ISBN 10:
0345319028
ISBN 13:
9780345319029
ファイル:
EPUB, 290 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 1986