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Black Star Rising — Frederik Pohl
"Take us to your leader, if you can..."
When a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and underscore its seriousness, you would expect the President to talk. Problem is, in the late twenty-first century, there is no President -- not even a United States. In fact, in this world of the future, China rules the Americas; and, to most People, "USA" and "USSR" are just quaint abbreviations in historical dictionaries Then the aliens prove unreasonable about accepting substitutes...so on Anglo rice-cultivator from the Heavenly Grain Collect Farm -- near Biloxi, Mississippi -- is forced to begin an adventure that will take him from peasant to President, from Pettman to Spaceman.
When a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and underscore its seriousness, you would expect the President to talk. Problem is, in the late twenty-first century, there is no President -- not even a United States. In fact, in this world of the future, China rules the Americas; and, to most People, "USA" and "USSR" are just quaint abbreviations in historical dictionaries Then the aliens prove unreasonable about accepting substitutes...so on Anglo rice-cultivator from the Heavenly Grain Collect Farm -- near Biloxi, Mississippi -- is forced to begin an adventure that will take him from peasant to President, from Pettman to Spaceman.
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