January Books 7) Out of Nowhere, by Gerald Whelan

[nwhyte]

One of the sff books set in Ireland that has been on my list for many years and which I got off Bookmooch back in the days when Bookmooch actually worked. It starts as a fairly standard tale of alien intrusion into our world (northwestern Ireland in this case) and the two young people who find themselves caught up in it, complete with stock scene

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[yea_mon]

complete with stock scene of bellicose American general wanting to nuke the problem

Tangential, but this reminds me of the time I was chatting to a Belfast cabbie whose dad was up in the RUC. He recounted a tale of how his dad was working with Americans re the Troubles in the 70s - the Americans couldn't understand why the RUC didn't just "Blow the hell out of the place". His reply: "We live here too!". A bit of a Vietnam influence I guess!

[peadarog]

On a tangent to your tangent... One of David Feintuch's near-future SF books has the IRA nuking Belfast. Your line "We live here too!" comes to mind...