An Alien Invasion During the Cold War - an Editorial Review of "Earthia: Cold War"

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Book Blurb:

His name is Yono. He is a brilliant alien from Mars who crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 1962 during the height of the Cold War. He is taken to the mysterious Area 51 in Nevada and finds himself in American hands. What do the Americans want from him? And how will it affect history? Find out when you read Earthia Cold War, an alternative history novel that reads and feels like a Hollywood flick from the 1980s and ’90s.

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Author Bio:

Nethaniel Spero

Hi, my name is Nethaniel Spero. I am 31 years old and have been writing stories since childhood. Over the years, I have successfully graduated from several courses, including one in computers and another in machines. Right now, I am exploring other opportunities.

Editorial Review:

In the quiet space where imagination and reality brush against each other like wind-worn leaves, there exists a story born from the vastness of human curiosity. It is a tale that could only sprout from soil turned rich by wonder and watered by the stars themselves. Into this fertile ground falls Yono, a wanderer from the red, distant plains of Mars, thrust not by choice but by the capricious hand of chance onto the hard, unyielding earth of America. His arrival is not a triumph, but a collision—of worlds, of knowledge, of lives.

Yono is a being unlike any seen or imagined in our earthly annals. He stands apart, yet tethered to the world he’s fallen into, as though he carries within him the same yearning for connection that courses through the veins of every creature beneath the sun. But where we see mere survival, Yono sees possibility, his otherworldly gifts glinting like treasures newly unearthed. And so, he is claimed—not by chains or bonds, but by the inexorable grasp of human ambition, eager to harvest his Martian secrets.

The tale unfolds with the quiet inevitability of a river cutting its way through stone. It carries us along on its currents, past jagged rocks of peril and through eddies of wonder, each page a step deeper into the labyrinth of Yono’s fate. But as the waters swirl, dark questions rise from their depths. What price will humanity pay for the knowledge Yono offers? What shadows crouch at the edges of this union between the known and the unimaginable?

The storyteller, like a patient farmer, sows their words with care, each sentence ripened under the sun of careful thought. Yono's world, though born from the fantastic, feels as solid as the earth beneath our feet. The characters who populate his journey—gritty, flawed, full of desperate dreams—are as real as neighbors and as haunting as ghosts. They linger in the mind, their fates tangled with our own desires, their struggles reflections of the eternal human yearning for meaning.

And yet, for all its luminous prose and intoxicating narrative, the tale does not shy from its darker truths. There is joy, yes, and discovery, but there is also a weight—an unspoken sadness that trails behind Yono, a shadow cast not by the light of two worlds meeting, but by their collision. The author does not offer easy answers, nor does the story wrap itself neatly in the ribbon of resolution. It is not a gift to be opened but a question to be carried.

When the last word has been read and the book closed, the story lingers like the scent of rain on dry ground. It leaves the reader both sated and yearning, as though they’ve glimpsed something vast and incomprehensible yet undeniably real. And perhaps that is the measure of this tale’s success: it doesn’t seek to answer the great questions, but to remind us that they exist—and that, like Yono, we are all travelers in a strange and endless universe.

*****

“Earthia: Cold War” by Nethaniel Spero receives 4.5 stars from The Historical Fiction Company

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