Fade-Out — Patrick Tilley

Alien Day. The date was Friday, the third of August. For some people the day was just beginning, for others it was the ending in a perfectly normal way. Then right across the world every ground and airborne radar screen went haywire…

This time it had really happened. An alien spacecraft was in orbit around planet Earth. Nine weeks later, civilization is on the edge of a breakdown more devastating than any nuclear war…