Re: Joe Haldeman's The Coming

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:19:14 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

This takes place in a corrupt near-future Florida after astronomers
have received a message from space.  Saying anything else is going
to spoil some part of the plot.  After all these years I suspect this
is probably my favorite alien first contact novel of all time.
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This came out in 2000 and have just not got around to it.  No wonder
I never get to nominate anything for Hugos.

One of the many books from my grandfather's estate on Revelation
asserts that Space Aliens and Flying Saucers were and will be
involved.

When I say that wing-nuts exist everywhere, I mean /everywhere/.
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"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"