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Where have I seen this plot before?!?!

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green

January 21, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

Stop me if you’ve hear this before: mysterious giant metallic objects, robot/sculptures in this this case, suddenly appear all over the world and humanity at first freaks out, then adjusts. Upon further study, the unknowable objects, named Carls here, are revealed to have impossible properties, and thus maybe are not from Earth. Cue alien invasion debate/panic. A hero, April May in this case, who likely had something to do with the first contact believes that the Carls are not threatening, and works to figure out […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #Science Fiction, Aliens, an absolutely remarkable thing, carl, hank green, invasion, robot, twitter

CoffeeShopReader's CBR11 Review No:4 · Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #Science Fiction, Aliens, an absolutely remarkable thing, carl, hank green, invasion, robot, twitter ·
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