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The Siege of Eternity

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1997
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A series of science fiction books by Frederik Pohl.

2) The Siege of Eternity
Copyright © 1997 by Frederik Pohl
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May contain spoilers
He was trying to tell us that the Scarecrows had their people on Earth already, all around us."
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Added: 22-Jun-2022
Last Updated: 22-Jun-2022

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 15-Oct-1998
Tor Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
15-Oct-1998
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
$6.99
Pages*:
346
Internal ID:
2652
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-812-57766-3
ISBN-13:
978-0-812-57766-2
Printing:
1
Country:
United States
Language:
English
Credits:
James Frenkel - Editor
John Harris  - Cover Artist
Inc. The Chopping Block - Cover Design
The aliens aren't coming.  They're here.

We've captured several of them.  Are they our saviors, or are they out to destroy us?  We've seen no spaceships, received no ultimatums - but 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 of behind their adbuction can be made clear, a wave of extremist threats and terrorist attacks sweeps the globe.  Are the attacks a reaction to the aliens' arrival - or 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 on Earth.
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First edition: November 1997
First mass market edition: October 1998
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Author(s)

Frederik Pohl  
Birth: 26 Nov 1919 Brooklyn, NY, USA
Death: 02 Sep 2013 Palatine, IL, USA

Notes:
From the "About the Author" page in "The Siege of Eternity":

A mutliple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author, Frederik Pohl has done just about everything one can do in the science-fiction field.  His most famous work is undoubtedly the novel Gateway, which won the Hugo, Nebula, and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards for best SF novel.  Man Plus won the Nebula Award.  His mature work is marked by a serious intellectual agenda and strongly held sociopolitical beliefs, without sacrificing narrative drive.  In addition to his successful solo fiction, Pohl has collaborated successfully with a variety of writers, including C. M. Kornbluth and Jack Williamson.  A Pohl/Kornbluth collabortation, The Space Merchants, is a long-time classic of satiric science fiction.  The Starchild Trilogy with Williamson is one of the more notable collaborations in the field.  Pohl has been a magazine editor in the field since he was very young, piloting World of If to three successive Hugos for Best Magazine.  He also has edited original-story anthologies, including the early and notable Star series of the early 1950s.  He has at various times been a literary agent, and editor of lines of science fiction books, and a president of the Science Fiction Writers of America.  For a number of years he has been active in the World SF movement.  He and his wife, Elizabeth Anne Hull, a prominent academic active in the Science Fiction Research Association, live outside Chicago, Illinois.

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