Call Me Ogi

By Michael Moreau

What would an alien invasion of Earth seem like from the perspective of the aliens, especially if the plan was never to actually kill any humans at all? Written as a first-person recounting of their unplanned landing on Earth, Call me Ogi is the story of an alien being who wanted none of the responsibility of leading his own people let alone presiding over the attempt at unifying two very different species in order to create a peaceful world that endures for all time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael Moreau
• Release date: Aug 25, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311806833

Michael Moreau

Writing a bio of myself is difficult because I often feel as if I don’t really know who I am. I am a collection of characters and places that have touched me as I have traveled down the (often bumpy) road of life.There’s only been one constant thing about me that truly feels like “me” and that is the desire to create. Whether it’s writing, photography, filmmaking costume & prop design, or one of the other couple of dozen things that I like to do I just can’t stop creating. I’m drawn to it more than any other pursuit in life.Just like everything else about me my influences are a little all over the board. I would say that I admire and often imitate Douglas Adams’ sense of humor, but lots of my works are also in the simple and elegant style of Andre Norton fused with some of the gritty details of writers like Hal Colbatch or Larry Niven.I don’t write as a career, I know that during my lifetime I will likely never make any real money from my writing but I do it because I have stories to tell. All that I hope from my work is that people enjoy it. A quick fan letter is my reward for what I do.

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Call Me Ogi

Michael Moreau

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Copyright 2015 Michael Moreau

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Table of Contents

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

About the Author

Chapter One

If you were to ask me I couldn’t tell you how long we drifted. Perhaps somewhere near what we now know to be the Helix nebula our tiny vessel was struck by some particularly strong cosmic rays. The computers couldn’t have been offline for very long, no more than a day, as we would have all perished had they stayed that way much longer. Still, much of the grand archive was lost. Our history, the data our ship had gathered on its seemingly endless voyage through the cosmos, even the navigational computations that pointed the way home...all gone.

While we slept the machines carried on with their mission. No data to go on they simply kept us moving in the direction we were already traveling. That would have been around the time that a certain visionary rabbi from Nazareth found himself being put up on a cross.

Had circumstances been different, I long thought, the machines on board would have scanned the Earth and, finding intelligent life, moved on in search of yet another world. Surely that was their mandate, to find a liveable planet but one that had no dominant species. After an unknown amount of time drifting amongst the stars, however, there was no longer the option to continue on. Sure the power core, the Stellix, had the capability of powering the ship for billions of years longer but the craft itself had begun to deteriorate to the point that even the machines could barely keep it functioning.

Faced with an impossible decision they awakened one soul, me. Time moves slowly in space. Disembodied and with no distractions I pondered our