Illegal Alien
Book description
When a disabled spaceship enters Earth's atmosphere, seven members of the advanced Tosok race are welcomed by the world. Then a popular scientist is murdered, and all evidence points to one of the Tosoks. Now, an alien is tried in a court of law-and there may be far more at…
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1 author picked Illegal Alien as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I liked this book because it has a sense of humor and yet approaches interesting questions about how we might meet another species of intelligent life in the universe.
Sawyer is not a scientist, but an enthusiastic amateur astronomer, with training in anthropology and a fascination with the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence, interests that inform many of his novels.
I also enjoyed this novel as a detective mystery with an astronomical puzzle that is part of its solution.
From Andrew's list on science fiction books that use good astronomy.
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