Project Gutenberg 2008-10-18 Public domain in the USA. 88 Sevcik, Al Llewellyn Llewellyn, William Llewellyn, Bill Llew Alien Offer Reading ease score: 73.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Greg Weeks, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "Alien Offer" by Al Sevcik is a science fiction novel written during the late 1950s. The story centers on a desperate situation where Commander Aku of an alien trading fleet arrives on Earth, offering to evacuate one hundred thousand children in response to an impending global catastrophe. The narrative explores themes of trust, survival, and the moral implications of sacrificing children in the face of an unknown alien future. In the storyline, General James Rothwell grapples with the challenging responsibility of selecting children for evacuation amidst widespread panic. As tensions rise, Rothwell becomes increasingly suspicious of Aku's intentions, especially when his own son is chosen as one of the evacuees. The plot thickens as Rothwell discovers that the aliens he initially believed were benevolent are actually part of a sinister plan orchestrated by a race known as the Eleele, who intend to enslave the children. The story builds towards a climax where Rothwell, realizing the depth of the deception, leads a desperate defense against the alien threats, culminating in a dramatic showdown that reveals the true nature of both the aliens and humanity's instinct for survival. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Extraterrestrial beings -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 57651 57656 2024-10-11T12:25:40.820993 2023-09-12T05:22:12.778678 text/html text/html 53832 2021-01-04T06:44:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 59949 2021-01-04T06:44:18 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 120601 2024-10-11T12:25:46.652997 application/epub+zip 119493 2024-10-11T12:25:43.634974 application/epub+zip 82715 2024-10-11T12:25:41.668980 application/epub+zip 245431 2024-10-11T12:25:48.696983 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 237665 2024-10-11T12:25:45.537969 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 115235 2022-09-12T12:06:55.931898 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 51216 51115 2024-10-11T12:25:40.293997 2023-09-12T05:22:12.591678 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 51076 2021-01-04T06:44:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20225 2021-01-04T06:44:18 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20176 2024-10-11T12:25:49.327951 application/rdf+xml 9984 2024-10-11T12:25:42.645976 image/jpeg 2815 2024-10-11T12:25:42.128974 image/jpeg 119078 2024-10-11T12:25:40.833987 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog