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Book Review of Illegal Alien

Illegal Alien
Illegal Alien
Author: Robert J. Sawyer
Genre: Science Fiction & Fantasy
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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An alien craft arrives on Earth, and human-alien relations seem to be going well, until one of the aliens apparently murders one of the humans. And then it gets more complex. This hybrid of SF and courtroom thriller is pretty solid. The story is interesting; though the dialogue is somewhat clunky at times, and some of the key points are a bit dodgy (a 400,000-year hibernation cycle seems pretty implausible, for instance).