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    Better Lost Than Ever Found
    Better Lost Than Ever Found
    Better Lost Than Ever Found
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    Better Lost Than Ever Found

    By Mark Rainbird

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    An alien documentary about Earth?
    Partly out of curiosity and partly for the money, Keko, an obscure academic with some strange habits, signs up as part of a documentary team looking for a forgotten planet that is the center of old, mostly forgotten myths. The bumbling, unauthorized expedition goes far further than it should with disastrous results.
    When they return home the documentary turns out to be a hit, but Keko and his colleagues have broken some old taboos and find themselves on trial on serious charges. This awakens a simmering debate on where the Earths inhabitants came from and what should be done with them. Keko finds himself earthward bound again – this time as part of a military fleet to clean up the mess and resolve the questions that put human existence in question.
    An unusual look with a humorous twist at how aliens might see us, from contact through to action packed attack on earth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMark Rainbird
    Release dateAug 13, 2014
    ISBN9780992585617
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