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ALIEN NATION

by

ALAN DEAN FOSTER
 Based on the screenplay by
ROCKNE S, OMANNON


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Copyright 0 1988 by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights
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First Printing: August, 1988

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This one's dedicated to James and Gole Anne, Who are having a lot of fun
and sharing it.
Those who saw it called it spectacular, and not a one of them failed to
underestimate it.
The Ship hung suspended in a cloudless sky of Mojave blue, immense beyond
belief, a cityscape in metal and plastic and god knew what else. It
materialized above the dry dead lake bed and hung motionless, a silvery
sculpture pinned against the backdrop of the rain-deprived ribs of the
southern Sierra Nevadas.
The first human beings to set eyes on the visitor were the McCoys, of
Lancaster, California. They were on their way up to Bridgeport for a week
of hiking and fishing when Mark McCoy leaned out the window of the family
Ford and yelled "Holy Begeesus, Dad-take a look at that!" Words now as
firmly set in human history as "Veni, vidi, vici" and "One small step for
a man, one giant step for mankind." His sister Mandy was the second human
to see the Ship, but her words are neither remembered nor recorded.
A trucker with a load of dead beef on his way to L.A. was the next. He was
followed by a member of the California Highway Patrol who spent ten minutes
stating at the apparition before remembering to respond to his radio, which
by that time was going berserk. Reports were starting to come in from all
over Southern California and Nevada as others noticed the intruder in their
sky. Awestruck citizens in I