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The Spaceship Next Door

by Gene Doucette
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The world changed on a Tuesday.When a spaceship landed in an open field in the quiet mill town of Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts, everyone realized humankind was not alone in the universe. With that realization, everyone freaked out for a little while.Or, almost everyone. The residents of Sorrow Falls took the news pretty well. This could have been due to a certain local quality of unflappability, or it could have been that in three years, the ship did exactly nothing other than sit quietly in that field, and nobody understood the full extent of this nothing the ship was doing better than the people who lived right next door.Sixteen-year old Annie Collins is one of the ship's closest neighbors. Once upon a time she took every last theory about the ship seriously, whether it was advanced by an adult ,or by a peer. Surely one of the theories would be proven true eventually—if not several of them—the very minute the ship decided to do something. Annie is starting to think this will never happen.One late August morning, a little over three years since the ship landed, Edgar Somerville arrived in town. Ed's a government operative posing as a journalist, which is obvious to Annie—and pretty much everyone else he meets—almost immediately. He has a lot of questions that need answers, because he thinks everyone is wrong: the ship is doing something, and he needs Annie's help to figure out what that is.Annie is a good choice for tour guide. She already knows everyone in town and when Ed's theory is proven correct—something is apocalyptically wrong in Sorrow Falls—she's a pretty good person to have around.As a matter of fact, Annie Collins might be the most important person on the planet. She just doesn't know it.The Spaceship Next Door is the latest novel from Gene Doucette, best-selling author of The Immortal Trilogy, Fixer, The Immortal Chronicles, and Immortal Stories: Eve.

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    December 22, 2015

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      • ISBN: 9781311291646
      • File size: 581 KB

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      • ISBN: 9781311291646
      • File size: 581 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      Starred review from July 2, 2018
      Doucette (Immortal Stories: Eve) delights with this wonderful example of speculative fiction that relies on startling concepts, beginning with “What if an alien ship landed and then nothing happened?” Nothing is exactly what the spaceship has done since it landed in Sorrow Falls, Mass., three years ago. Teenager Annie Collins is friendly with everyone in town, including the soldiers guarding the landing site, the camper-bound observers with their various theories, and the local patriarch. She also has her own ideas about “Shippie,” as she and her friend Violet call it in private. She’s a natural to assist government agent Edgar Somerville when he arrives to investigate both the ship and the town. Then the zombie sightings begin. Doucette writes winning characters who read like real people, and Sorrow Falls is similarly credible. The head-spinning ideas both power the narrative and invite the reader to think hard, while plenty of humor and action move the plot along. This excellent work will appeal to readers from middle school through adulthood.

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