A Swarm Cycle Story
Outpost series #1
An interesting foursome listens for Sa'arm communications at the deep space listening post Heinlein station. A short peek into the intelligence side of the Swarm Cycle.
An ancient alien race comes to earth intent on the subjugation of the dominant species on the planet, humans! They were a race of symbiotic organisms, they fed off the sexual energy of their hosts. Is earth doomed? How long does humanity have? Can they be stopped? Will anyone even try?
Remember playing pretend games with my friends when an ordinary thing like a hollow tree was a ship going out to war and, less dramatically, pretending that a pair of sunglasses had the magic power to see through clothes. My friends and I would put on those pretend magic glasses around my sister or one of her friends. Well, I am a lot older nowadays. Any of those pretend games like that are long past. None of that silly stuff could happen in the real world.