Dark Energy
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
We are not alone. They are here. And there’s no going back. Perfect for fans of The Fifth Wave and the I Am Number Four series, Dark Energy is a thrilling stand-alone science fiction adventure from Robison Wells, critically acclaimed author of Variant and Blackout.
Five days ago, a massive UFO crashed in the Midwest. Since then, nothing—or no one—has come out.
If it were up to Alice, she’d be watching the fallout on the news. But her dad is director of special projects at NASA, so she’s been forced to enroll in a boarding school not far from the crash site. Alice is right in the middle of the action, but even she isn’t sure what to expect when the aliens finally emerge. Only one thing is clear: everything has changed.
She wanted to be a spectator. Instead, she’s on the front lines.
UFO Crash: A ship the size of a city crash-lands in the American heartland, and for five long days, no one knows who—or what—is inside.Aliens in High School: Alice gets a front-row seat when survivors of the crash enroll in her elite boarding school, bringing the mystery right to her doorstep.First Contact Gone Wrong: With her NASA-director father sworn to secrecy, Alice is trapped between official stories and the terrifying truth of why the visitors are really here.An Action-Packed Survival Story: When a new, deadlier threat emerges, running for her life alongside the aliens she barely knows might be Alice’s only chance to survive.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Wells (Blackout) has a misfire with this inconsistent tale, which opens after an enormous starship crashes in Iowa and skids hundreds of miles north. Seventeen-year-old Alice Goodwin relocates from Florida to Minnesota when her father, an important NASA official, is assigned to investigate the UFO. The thousands of surviving aliens, who look entirely human, are housed in a shantytown near the ship but, in an effort at interstellar communication, two alien teenagers are enrolled in Alice's new boarding school, with one of them assigned as her roommate. The novel begins on a somber note with at least 18,000 humans killed in the crash (on top of alien casualties) but quickly veers into lighter banter among Alice and her classmates. Smart, wisecracking Alice realizes that something isn't quite right with the aliens' story, and she's proven right when the Masters, the real owners of the starship, appear. Wells's Masters are nightmarish but cartoonishly incompetent, and while the novel doesn't lack for action, neither does it find its footing as it swings uncomfortably between humorous and horrific. Ages 13 up.
