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Plot Summary of Alien Thought
"A group of students on an excursion into mountains by their home town suddenly find animals and birds dying about them. They eventually find that the cause is aliens. The Aliens are friendly, but their means of communicating amongst themselves is deadly to earth life. After repeated small contacts a couple of young people become immune to the 'Alien Thought' and it befalls them to try to save the rest of the world from these friendly but lethal visitors."
Dan Donoghue, Resident Scholar




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Composition of Book
planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places - 30%




Tone of book - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - science fiction story
Explore/1st contact/ enviro story Yes
Plotlets: - generally friendly contact with alien(s)
Tech./$$$/Info hunt Yes
Stealing/recovering/destroying - info about lifeform(s)/society/phenomena
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - An "It".
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - explorer
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Very much smarter than other characters

Setting
Terrain - Mountains - Forests

Style
Person? - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
scientific jargon? (SF only) - none/very little science jargon needed
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references only - impregnation/reproduction
Is this an e-book? Yes
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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