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Don't Mess With Earth

An Alternate History Novel

by Cliff Ball
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When a planet-killing meteor threatens Earth, a small advanced nation called Terra makes a radical choice: leave. They build a starship, select a fraction of their people, and vanish into the stars, abandoning the rest of humanity to face extinction.

Centuries later, the descendants of those travelers return. What they find is not the world they left behind. Earth has fractured into primitive kingdoms, empires, and dark ages. The Terrans watch in secret, occasionally nudging history, never fully revealing themselves.

But they are not the only ones watching.

A ruthless alien species begins experimenting on Earth's population. Other galactic powers take notice. And when humanity finally reaches for the stars on its own terms, the carefully hidden truth of Earth's past collides with the future of the entire galaxy.

What happens when the planet everyone underestimated decides it has had enough?

Don't Mess With Earth is an epic alternate-history space opera spanning thousands of years — from ancient civilizations to interstellar war — about survival, interference, and the high cost of underestimating humanity.

Type
Novel
Format
Ebook, Audiobook, Paperback
Published
Mar 2009
Pages
301
Language
EN

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Violence
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Setting

Far Future
Historical

Tropes

Ensemble Cast

Pace

Steady

Point-of-View

3rd omniscient

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