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On Earth as It Is on Television

✍ Scribed by Emily Jane


Book ID
111648852
Publisher
Disney Book Group
Year
2023
Tongue
English
Weight
584 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781368093859

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


First Contact stories have never been as intoxicating and fun as in Emily Jane's novel of the sudden arrivalβ€”and equally sudden departureβ€”of spaceships above Earth. The arrival of spaceships can bring up a lot of big questions: What does it mean that we're not alone? Why did aliens come here? Who knew beforehand? Where.... are the aliens going? Wait... They can't just leave! Without inviting us into their galactic federationβ€”or at the very least obliterating us! In Emily Jane's debutβ€”a rollicking paean to what it means to be alive in the twenty-first centuryβ€”the fleeting presence of alien vessels, and the certainty that humans are not alone in the universe, sparks intense uncertainty as to our place within it. Blaine has always been content to go along with whatever his supermom wife and television-addicted, half-feral children want. But when the kids blithely ponder skinning people to see if they're aliens, and his wife announces a surprise road trip to Disney World, even steady...


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