Professor Ricksted's Children and the Aliens

Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Ricksted's Syndrome children are slow to acquire normal human language but can understand non-human language. When invasion by hostile viking-like aliens is imminent, SETI scientist receive a warning message from a friendly alien but it sounds like gobbledygook! Two Ricksted children are able to come to the rescue. The USA president wants to nuke the aliens - not a good idea! The invasion starts just as the Ricksted children (with a little help from friends) have a breakthrough. This is NOT a children's book!

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John Nichols graduated from Liverpool Medical School in 1967 and entered General Practice in Guildford in 1971. He spent six months as research assistant to Ian Watson at the Shere GP practice in Surrey working on various projects including a trial of revaccination against measles 5-10 years after primary immunisation which showed a decline in immunity that was boosted by revaccination. In 1973 he joined The Fairlands GP Practice near Guildford where he was able to collaborate with university colleagues on a number of research projects. He was also a GP trainer for 20 years. He graduated the MSc Nutritional Medicine in 2005 and was subsequently appointed as a Visiting Research Fellow in 2011. He has published research on zinc status and postnatal depression, trace elements and female infertility, smoking cessation, diverticular disease and the use of probiotics in primary care. Published books include two books on Nutritional Medicine and three works of fiction. One science fiction novel has been published as a paperback and two are currently only available as e-books; all available through Amazon books.

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President Howard Acton

Howard Acton, President of the USA is not a happy bunny and you really cannot blame him. Those snooty Brits have out manoeuvered him again. This time it is a really serious matter. They seem to have a better idea of what's going on in outer space than him and he is, after all, the leader of the free world. He is taking out his frustration on one of his chief scientists, poor Steve Steinburg. Don't worry, however, Howard Acton has a softer side as Steinburg discovers on the long journey to Geneva on Ariforce One.

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Professor Ricksted's Children and the Aliens

He summonsed Steven Steinberg to the White House, kept him waiting for nearly an hour and then summonsed him to the oval office. He ranted and raved. ‘Did you know that they’ve summonsed me to Geneva! Goddammit! Why not New York? It’s the Goddam Brits. Those bull-shitters have always disrespected me. What the hell is going on Steinberg?’

‘Mr President, Sir’, said Steinberg, doing his best to show respect, ‘All I can tell you is that there is a massive space vehicle nearly one sixth the size of the moon approaching the solar system. The Magellan telescope is tracking it and my unit is picking up radio signals’.

‘So why are the Goddam Brits calling all the shots. Weren’t we the first to detect this space giant?’

‘Actually, no sir we weren’t. It was their Manchester SETI and I suspect they are hiding something’.

‘What?’

‘There’s a second weaker signal that we cannot detect. Al Bicknell, their top man, suggested it might be an echo or something, but I think he was just trying to mollify me. We’ve tried our darnedest to detect it .........’

‘And those cussed po-faced Brits have bettered you eh? So, will they tell us all at Geneva? They bloody better had or I’ll give them Hell!’

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Professor Ricksted's Children and the Aliens

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