March to Other Worlds Day 4 Novel Problems by George Morrison
March to Other Worlds Day 4 Novel Problems by George Morrison
Aliens always make up an important part of the March to Other Worlds. Sometimes they are invading, sometimes they are infiltrating, and sometimes, as in the humorous Novel Problems by George Morrison, they are simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. The trouble has its roots in a man’s desire to publish a novel…
Jake writes really bad science fiction in which he includes some non-classified information about a missile defense system his company builds. His friends convince him to rewrite and get rid of the company info, but through a complicated series of events his original manuscript ends up in an agent’s hands who sends it to a contact in the military to vet. That contact, who is also working on the actual missile defense system, gets in a car accident and the sf manuscript and the real documents concerning the defense system get mixed together convincing the most inept group of military intelligence operatives in existence (think Monty Python doing a skit about inept government investigators) that there is a spy ring trying to steal their system. To make matters even worse, the sf manuscript has aliens in it and the investigators think that the aliens are also involved in the espionage plot.
What follows is a convoluted series of mistakes and other bungles that would make the aforementioned Monty Python actors proud. The investigators convince themselves that a serious plot is afoot that actually involves outer space aliens and they are determined to uncover it no matter how many idiots get in their way. The most competent people in the whole story are the dog and the third grader—oh, and the actual aliens who are trying very hard not to get caught up in this investigation.
It certainly is a crazy storyline and that’s what makes it fun.
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