The Spaceship Next Door by Gene Doucette

This excellent work will appeal to readers from middle school through adulthood. With that realization everyone freaked out for a little while. Gene lives in Cambridge, MA, and loves to hear from his readers Customer reviews. The Spaceship Next Door is the latest novel from Gene Doucette, best-selling author of The Immortal Trilogy, Fixer, The Immortal Chronicles, and Immortal Stories: Eve. In May, 2021, THE APOCALYPSE SEVEN will be published by JJA Books/HMH.

The head-spinning ideas both power the narrative and invite the reader to think hard, while plenty of humor and action move the plot along. When a spaceship landed in an open field in the quiet mill town of Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts, everyone realized humankind was not alone in the universe. In September, 2018, THE SPACESHIP NEXT DOOR was republished by John Joseph Adams Books, the sci-fi/fantasy imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Doucette writes winning characters who read like real people, and Sorrow Falls is similarly credible. She’s a natural to assist government agent Edgar Somerville when he arrives to investigate both the ship and the town.

She also has her own ideas about “Shippie,” as she and her friend Violet call it in private. Teenager Annie Collins is friendly with everyone in town, including the soldiers guarding the landing site, the camper-bound observers with their various theories, and the local patriarch. Doucette ( Immortal Stories: Eve) delights with this wonderful example of speculative fiction that relies on startling concepts, beginning with “What if an alien ship landed and then nothing happened?” Nothing is exactly what the spaceship has done since it landed in Sorrow Falls, Mass., three years ago.

The Spaceship Next Door by Gene Doucette