Footfall

Description:

The book depicts the arrival of members of an alien species called the Fithp that have traveled to the Solar System from Alpha Centauri in a large spacecraft driven by a Bussard ramjet. Their intent is conquest of the planet Earth.

subjects: Life on other planets,  Fiction,  Science fiction,  American Science fiction,  Extraterrestrial beings,  Human-alien encounters,  New York Times reviewed,  Fiction, science fiction, general,  Science Fiction - General,  Fiction / Science Fiction / General,  Fiction - Science Fiction,  Science fiction, American,  Fiction, general