Invaders - John Kessel

Okay so I get that this is a three part story dealing with the conquest of the Inca, a 21st century alien invasion and the author's writing of the story. 'What I don't get, however, is the point. I don't know .. it just didn't really do it for me.

So, I decided to read about the author instead of focusing on this particular story. It turns out he wrote a great number of short science fiction stories and was inspired by H.G. Wells who, interestingly enough I am talking about in my paper.

Here is a link to John Kessel's homepage:

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/index2.html

He seems to be a pretty interesting guy who made quite a great deal of input to the science fiction genre. He didn't start publishing until 1985 and was first at American Literature and science fiction professor at North Carolina State University, where, interestingly enough my dad recently went for a conference!

Hm .. seems kind of funny that the first time that I decide to focus on an author in my blog, I find all of these coincidences. It makes me wonder what I've been missing out on ...