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Humanity's Saving Grace Paperback – Oct. 5 2013

Name: Humanity's Saving Grace: Binkley, Alex: 9780986787966: Books - Amazon.ca
Rating: 4.2 (11 reviews)

by Alex Binkley (Author)

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Having barely avoided self-destruction, an ancient race has expanded to eight other worlds. While the Beings explored Earth numerous times during two centuries with their flying saucers, they didn't consider the primitive Terrans worth contacting. That changes when their worlds came under attack from a relentless, mysterious foe. The aliens offer to repair Earth's ravaged environment in exchange for pilots and soldiers to fight their foe. The First Earth Expeditionary Force battles in space and on the ground while trying to comprehend how thousands of humans had been conscripted into fighting for the enemy. Equally puzzling for FEEF is figuring out the motives of robot-like creatures that serve the aliens, and discovering the origin of centuries old ruins on several planets and a seemingly uninhabited community under a protective dome.

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250 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Loose Cannon Press
Publication date

Oct. 5 2013
Dimensions

14 x 1.44 x 21.6 cm
ISBN-10

0986787965
ISBN-13

978-0986787966
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Loose Cannon Press (Oct. 5 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 250 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0986787965
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0986787966
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 323 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14 x 1.44 x 21.6 cm

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Well worth a read!

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on February 28, 2014

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The author took advantage of my imagination and developed a very entertaining story that had me asking questions left me looking forward to the next installment of the story. This book will make the rounds in my family and I can’t wait to discuss it with them. I am reluctant to say much about the story line because I don’t want to spoil it for you, except to say it deals with many of the issues coming our way as well as an alternate “first contact” scenario.

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Sean Malcolm

A Novel in the Best Tradition of Science Fiction Classics

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 24, 2014

There is nothing more entertaining than a solid, old-fashion sci-fi novel. With intrigue, a sense of discovery and a plot where there is no confusion between good and bad guys, Ottawa author Alex Binkley delivers the goods in his debut novel Humanity’s Saving Grace.

The story follows the classic “humans meet aliens” plot, but with the delightful twist of bio-robots, Tons, who harbour a secret agenda. The aliens–Beings–have been exploring Earth for two hundred years, but with each visit they conclude that humans—Terrans—are simply too primitive and war-like to contact. In contrast to the Terrans, who have squandered away the Earth’s resources through conflict and over-exploitation, the Beings have developed aversion to all forms of violence and made incredible advances in technology. However, when the Beings' worlds come under attack from an unidentified race of marauders—the Nameless, the Beings finds that their advanced technology is not enough to keep them safe and their genetic antipathy to violence becomes their Achilles’ Heel. Humbaw, one of the Beings’ leaders, decides to strike a bargain with the Terrans. In exchange for volunteer Terran mercenaries to take the war to the Nameless, the Beings offer to rehabilitate Earth’s damaged environment, giving the planet a new lease on life. The Terrans, Beings and Tons slowly form a formidable force to beat back the invaders, only to find that the Nameless are just pawns manipulated by a much more dangerous foe.

The strength of Binkley’s writing lies in his ability to maintain the reader in a constant state of discovery and the evolution of bonds among his protagonists—human, alien and bio-robotic—in a way that subtly mirrors everyday life. Binkley cleverly leaves a number of mysteries unresolved in his first novel, whetting the reader’s appetite for at least a sequel if not a series in the best tradition of the science fiction classics. So stay tuned for more adventures from Alex Binkley’s galactic alliance. (This review was previously posted on New Perspectives on Canadian Literature.)

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Martin Bueno

Humanity's Saving Grace by Alex Binkley A great Sci-Fi adventure

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 28, 2014

Humanity’s Saving Grace a novel by Alex Binkley
Science Fiction:
An extra-terrestrial has made first contact with humans. Meet Humbaw, a reptilian, aquamarine, scaly and above all, intelligent Being with telepathic powers. He is a Dinosauroid with short forearms, but a leader of galactic proportion faced with a relentless enemy and only one race to turn to for help. The future earth dwellers or Terrans are called upon to accomplish what humans do instinctively, go to battle to fight a foe with courage and bravery using the Being’s advanced technology. Are earthlings willing to meet the challenge of fighting a mercenary war for an unknown alien species? The rewards are grand for earth, a reversal of pollution, but the perils are ominous.
When earth accepts the offer, the Beings and their robots, the Biobots integrate with Terrans to meet the formidable foe, who in turn have enslaved the Nameless.
Alex Binkley, a freelance journalist, keeps the momentum of this skillfully paced Space Odyssey. Humanity’s Saving Grace will entertain and delight Science Fiction fans everywhere.
Review by author: Martin Bueno

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 23, 2014

"Humanity's Saving Grace" is clever, clever, clever. In style, it's more Arthur C. Clarke than Robert Heinlein -- that is, carefully and thoughtfully constructed around a believable first contact hypothesis, leaving the details of violence (and lust) to the imagination.
Set in 2037, humankind has finally been approached by extraterrestrials -- not with a bang but a wave and a tentative smile. Instead of the massive overreaction we now expect from movies and books, this first contact is portrayed as it would likely happen, given the world today: some fear, a good deal of curiosity and a big sigh relief.
And, given the world today, the Beings (as we come to know them) and their Biobots want us for one of the two things we do best: war. The other thing we do so very well -- ruining the environment -- is the chip they use to win human help. They will fix what we have destroyed if we will fight what is destroying them -- the Others. There is, as you'd expect, no lack of volunteers.
Who the Beings and Biobots are, who the Others are, how humankind is linked to them and how the relationships unfold makes for a compelling read. How compelling? I want to read more.

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D.Desilets

Exciting reading requiring time commitment as this book is hard to put down.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 29, 2014

Smart read. A plausible explanation to my teenage questions "are UFO for real, are they occupied, what do they look like, are they friendly? " The concepts introduced by Binkley are scientifically satisfying. The naming of the extra - terrestrials Beings and Biots, and the physical appearance chosen is a brilliant and helps me accept his views. Funny and exciting it has the potential to change how humans treat others (Beings) .
Pleasant glimse of hope!

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Keith Savage

Blinkley has done something remarkable and rare in Science Fiction ...

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 23, 2014

Blinkley has done something remarkable and rare in Science Fiction. He has written a solid epic story that contains mystery layered upon mystery that keeps the reader hooked, in order to uncover the enigma's inside. Worth every penny.

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