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The Road to Roswell
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A delightful romantic comedy about love, alien invasions, and the incredibly silly things people are willing to believe in--some of which may actually be true--from the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author of Blackout. When Francie arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, for her college roommate's UFO-themed wedding--complete with a true-believer groom--she can't help but roll her eyes at all the talk of aliens, which patently don't exist. Imagine her surprise, then, when she gets abducted by one. Her abductor is not your typical alien--not gray, or a reptilian, or anything else the popular media might have led her to expect. Instead, the creature is more like an animate tumbleweed--a mass of lightning-fast tentacles and unexpected charm, given that it has no apparent ability to communicate beyond pointing. Worse, the alien's second abductee--an endearing con man named Wade--only compounds the problem, for Francie was supposed to spend the weekend talking her roommate out of the wedding, not falling in love herself. How can a guy who sells anti-abduction insurance for a living still manage to be the most sensible, decent man she has ever met? The more Francie gets to know her abductor, however, the more certain she becomes that the alien is in trouble and needs her help--though she has no idea what the problem is, or how to solve it. Especially as the alien's abduction spree seems far from over. But with Wade's assistance, Francie is determined to get their new friend to its destination--wherever that might be. Because who knows what could be at risk should they fail?
- Format: Hardcover
- Author: Willis, Connie
- ISBN: 9780593499856
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.25 x 1.03
- Number Of Pages: 416
- Publication Year: 2023
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English
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Entertaining beach read
Would RecommendGary L. - 7 months agoConnie Willis' _The_Road_to_Roswell_ is a rom-com with a touch of alien abduction/first contact story. The alleged flying saucer crash at Roswell in 1947 forms the back story, while poking fun at many of the foibles of life in the 21st century: especially technology. Her characters are extrapolations of people we all know and have to deal with, her aliens--while not as loveable as E.T.--are benign and bring tension on humanity only through their inability to communicate. There are send-ups to dozens of westerns of the 40s, 50s, & 60s; to _Men_in_Black_, _The_Wizard_of_Oz_; and a little fun with exo-linguistics as found in Babel 17, The Sparrow, Story of Your Life, and Planet of the Apes. This is light entertainment--what we call a summer beach read, and cannot be compared with her hard SF works such as _To_Say_Nothing_of_the_Dog_ or _Doomsday_Book_. My biggest takeaway is a coherent picture of what happened at Roswell.