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John Anthony Alvan Nichols
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Professor Ricksted's Children and the Aliens
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Author Insight
First contact with aliens?
Al Bicknell and his team at Manchester SETI are pretty certain that this is the real thing. Not just one but two complex signals that could surely only be from an alien intelligence. No wonder they are excited. Al tells his staff that SETI California have detected a signal too but only one signal. The importance of this difference between Manchester and California is not immediately obvious but it will turn out to be a political embarrassment for the USA and Howard Acton, the USA president is infuriated. It turns out that the weaker of the two signals, which SETI California cannot hear, is from a friendly alien who will be the only thing standing between Earth survival and annihilation by the Sectopled invasion!
Book Excerpt
Professor Ricksted's Children and the Aliens
The following day, as Andrew Sender was finishing a long paediatric outpatient clinic at Jamestown DGH, a meeting of Manchester SETI Project was starting. Al Bicknell and his team of six cosmologists and two part-time exobiologists were hunched over a working lunch of sandwiches, fruit and soft drinks. As Al looked around he saw the eyes of his staff gleaming with expectation. Two remarkably different signals, repeated almost daily within just one week. It must be the real thing.
‘No public announcement then?’ asked Jamie Figg, the youngest and brightest of the cosmologists.
‘Not our decision,’ said Al. He let his arms drop to his side and gazed benignly at his colleagues. Then he let his gaze rest on the radio telescope dish framed by the window opposite. ‘The PM’s strategy advisers will need to look at this before any public pronouncement is made. And one more thing you should know; I heard from SETI in Berkeley, California this morning. It seems they’ve picked up something too’. He paused as there were a few exclamations and mutterings, then he held up his hand. ‘But they only detected one signal’.
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