Welcome to the Occupied States of America

<p>Ashley Kelly is your typical American teenager-or she would be if it weren't for the cluster bomb that crippled her. Seven years after the invasion over a hundred million Americans have been displaced by the war with millions more dead. Ash has spent seven years learning to walk again and she'll be damned if she's going to lie down for anyone human or otherwise.<br><br>FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels that explore humanity's first interaction with extraterrestrial life. This series is similar to BLACK MIRROR or THE TWILIGHT ZONE in that the series is based on a common theme rather than common characters. This allows these books to be read in any order. Technically they're all first as they all deal with how we might initially respond to contact with aliens exploring the social political religious and scientific aspects of First Contact.<br><br>US Book Critic Mal Warwick has described this series as <em>one of the most ambitious and successful projects in all of science fiction</em>.</p>