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This is my first novel by Silverberg, and it doesn't make me want to grab another book by him.
In this novel, set in the near future, aliens of greatly superior force and inscrutable motives invade and occupy Earth. The story mostly follows one family, the Carmichaels of Southern California, over five decades as they cope and resist. I rather liked that the eldest males in the line were named "Anson"--Heinlein's middle name. Nice homage that.
Early on the Carmichael patriarch, "The Colonel," ref ...more
In this novel, set in the near future, aliens of greatly superior force and inscrutable motives invade and occupy Earth. The story mostly follows one family, the Carmichaels of Southern California, over five decades as they cope and resist. I rather liked that the eldest males in the line were named "Anson"--Heinlein's middle name. Nice homage that.
Early on the Carmichael patriarch, "The Colonel," ref ...more
Mar 28, 2011
Angela Randall
marked it as to-read
