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    Aliens Got My Sally

    By Lee Baldwin

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    A Novel of First Contact 
    UFO Pulp Fiction for the Modern Mind

    Intelligence and imagination blaze through the pages of this novel, which unveils an alien world that is peaceful on the surface yet masks a shadowed past. 

    An intriguing and dangerous tale of alien contact: We go to their place.

    Archaeologist Anna Lewis extracts a coded message from a pre-Colombian sculpture, disclosing that Earth is a failed colony of an ancient galactic race.

    Failed colony? Humanity will not be amused.

    This results in Anna taking a ride to a planet on the other side of the galaxy, where she meets humanity’s cousins. She struggles to understand that she’s been conscripted into an interplanetary rescue project. 

    Feisty, contradictory Anna will not simply accept what she is told. But the knowledge from those ancient beings is so overwhelming she must decide whether the societies of Earth will accept what she says. 

    And if she says anything or not, she could die. Along with the rest of Earth.

    Powerfully intimate and inventive, Lee Baldwin’s Aliens Got My Sally is an unforgettable forward look into what we risk as human beings in the unthinking path we pursue now. The novel highlights the cost of disloyalty to one another’s dreams, a stand-alone big idea story that uses the latest in scientific thinking about the nature of the universe as bedrock for carefully-wrought speculative fiction.

    This, Baldwin’s fifth novel, shines a light on what humanity could become in the far future.

    I LOVED Aliens Got My Sally… I wish all books were this original and well-written! I’ve read a LOT of ‘alien abduction’ literature over the decades (it’s just plain fun reading), so it was especially pleasing to see a different approach!    – D. Donovan, Editor

    Dystopian first contact novel with a strong female lead

    Baldwin found the premise for the story while thinking about the Drake equation, that product of strange-seeming terms that is supposed to estimate the number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy. It struck him that this estimate is based on independent emergence, therefore the equation cannot predict the expansion of a single species to many planets. He wondered, what if life develops infrequently, but finds its own ways to expand across space? Those ways might include the rise to limitless intelligence, and methods of travel we’ve yet to imagine. In this vision, humanity's cousins were born.

    So, what if a spacefaring race did visit Earth in the deep past? Could they have influenced our biology and could we therefore be their genetic cousins? With these assumptions, the human race could be a relatively small twig of a hyper-evolved galactic civilization. Baldwin thought that situation interesting enough to form the premise of this book.

    Because of rapid star aging in the early universe, significant amounts of organic and metallic compounds necessary to biological life could have first blown across space in a timespan as short as three million years. The Milky Way galaxy where our planet spins in darkness is nearly as old as the current universe. This means that intelligent life could have appeared in our island universe 13 billion years ago.

    What could such species be like today? Could they have progressed through a post-biological state of existence into a non-material one, and departed this universe to seek out a different physics? What if those beings control physics itself, through a hyper-evolved consciousness?
    Suppose civilizations exist there, across multiple dimensions of time and space and are aware of us, yet conceal themselves from even our imagination?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLee Baldwin
    Release dateMay 4, 2017
    ISBN9780985477769
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    Aliens Got My Sally
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    Lee Baldwin

    I am a novelist. I have waited 25 years to say that, through a half-dozen careers including my own creative copywriting agency in Vancouver, B.C. and Hawaii, a human interface designer in Silicon Valley, a glass artist, and painter of edgy landscapes. It was worth it. My characters often have a quirky edge, because I see human foibles as the launch point of dramatic conflict. That and a musical ear helps me shape dialog and narrative into rhythms of dramatic reveal, turning points, and cadences. Escape fiction generally satisfies the reader’s hunger for vicarious experience -- the cool stuff, such as glamorous adventure, epic situations, sex and romance, the future of humanity. Lah de-dah. I get fiendish pleasure whenever can I spice these situations with wry humor. Some of my work, Next History in particular, I wrote so that people would gain hope, in a way, or at least consider certain ideas in new light. When someone gains a fresh viewpoint from my writing, it fulfills my purpose. If you have a comment or simply want to say hi, you can contact me at Baldwin Books dot com. Peace out.

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    • 4/5
      Aliens Got My Sally is a fun and quick read. At first blush, the story felt a little rushed. I found myself wishing for more explanation of the alien race, the science and how two million women could be abducted without a media storm erupting. At the end, the world that Lee Baldwin created stayed with me though. I finished the book in one afternoon when I was home sick. The story has a deliberate pulp fiction/B movie feel which I believe to be an intentional choice by the author. At the end, I wished for more. It will leave you with interesting questions about the future. There is more here than meets the eye!
    • 4/5
      This is an interesting twist on alien invasion. It has the science fiction aspect with wormholes and biotechnology. There are philosophical questions about life, free will, and consciousness. At the center of it all is quantum biologist Sally Jacobs and Anna Lewis, an Archaeology doctoral student. Besides an academic theft of ideas, blackmail and a dig that becomes very sensitive, there are egg sacs, body parts, and abductions. LibraryThing Member Giveaway randomly chose me to receive this book. Although encouraged, I was under no obligation to write a review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
    • 4/5
      Each one of us has thought from time to time that we could somehow influence the outcome of events by just thinking strongly about the desired result. The author of this book takes that feeling one step further. He envisions an alien biotech society where this indeed works. That society is our parent race, which somewhat explains our secret thoughts on the matter. They are there to guide us and help us develop as we grow into consciousness. Many self-interested entities on earth who are in control would recent this alien race’s influence and would even kill and go to war to destroy the knowledge of it. Some of the things of this book seem a little silly; sort of like the writing of Terry Pratchett. Some examples of this are talking lemurs with pink stripes and a monkey with flashlights that blinds people so they can steal an embryonic sack. But these illustrate the point that, with conscious thought, you can create anything that you whimsically desire. The universe has an abundance of resources and they can be harnessed and manipulated with the conscious mind enhanced with alien biotech according to the story.I think the author made a mistake choosing his title. I probably would've never picked this book up just based on the title. The book’s description started me reading. Passing this book up would have been a mistake on my part. This was a very enjoyable read and it's a book that I had to struggle to put down.