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In The Course Of Diplomacy
In The Course Of Diplomacy
In The Course Of Diplomacy
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It was our first alien contact...
...and it was a crisis right from the start. We avoided an interstellar war by sheer luck, but both sides were still on edge, and the situation was explosive. Now we were trying the uncharted waters of interspecies diplomacy. No one knew what to expect: we had never faced a situation like this before. All we could be sure of was that the humans were unpredictable, unstable, and just as terrified of us as we were of them. Anything could happen, may our Ancestors protect us!

Here is the long-awaited tell-all memoir of that first Ic'nichi diplomatic mission to earth: the authentic blow-by-blow account of crisis management - and mismanagement - on a cosmic scale. You read the official story in your textbooks. Now learn what really happened!

LanguageEnglish
PublisherRobert A Boyd
Release dateDec 20, 2014
ISBN9780983800262
In The Course Of Diplomacy
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Robert A Boyd

I have always been a compulsively creative sort, notorious for my lunchtime projects. Now that I'm retired, I give vent to my creative urges as a self-published author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. I established 'The Written Wyrd', a non-profit literary trust in Washington State, to promote self-published and small press authorship in speculative fiction. All proceeds from sales of my works go to support the Spec Fic community. I especially like to explore new genres and sub-genres in the Spec Fic field, and my works run from humorous adventure to apocalyptic horror to political thriller to mystery/romance. I am noted for my over-the-top sense of humor, as reflected in several of my works.

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