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XBook Chapter 6 - William Discusses More of the Story (Or how to be terrible at exposition)


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William acts a bit like Captain Kirk on board the Starship Enterprise (again), and he also covers some exposition (again). A lot like the last episode (chapter 5), but a new day, and William is still going on. 

Yes, it's episode 6 of this old novel by myself, Daniel's Nemesis, called XBook.

It's about an alien invasion in 1918, just after the Great War has finished and we follow both sides of the action, from the human perspective as well as the alien perspective. Unfortunately, both perspectives are a bit skewed. Think Independence Day meets Blackadder Goes Forth with a touch of Salvador Dali mixed in. I did, and I wrote about it.

After I read the chapter, I shall then dissect it and start to bring out some psychobabble as well.

Think of this as "how not to write a book". Bad fiction by a bad author who feels the need to exonerate himself by putting his many times rejected novel on to the Internet as an audiobook for all to laugh at. This isn't a mash-up of science fiction and historical fiction as both of those genres would require a modicum of research... The only fantasy in this story is that anyone would recognise it as a story. Enjoy!

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