Majestic
A novel
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Majestic
Published Sept 1989 (Paperback Oct 1990)
On July 2, 1947, something fragile and strange fell in the New Mexico desert,
brought down by a bizarre storm. Ever since there have been persistent rumors
that the crashed object was a craft from another world. Only once, in 1979,
did one of the Air Force officers involved old and retired and perhaps
touched by conscience offer a glimpse of the probable truth. It
was definitely not a weather or tracking device, he said in videotaped
interviews, nor was it any sort of plane or missile. What it was we didnt
know.
Behind that statement lies a reality that could
shake the foundations of civilization.
Majestic is Whitley Striebers astonishing
novel about what happened, and, above all, why it has remained such a deep,
dark secret. It is a cunning weave of fact and fiction, mixing what little is
known for certain with Striebers increasing understanding of the awesome
presence he calls the visitors. Terrifying, surpassingly beautiful,
this is what might have come to pass in the secret night, when mankind and other
kind met...
More than just a novel about aliens among us,
however, Majestic is the story of our own humanity, our rise, our fall,
our spectacular refusal to acknowledge that which we do not understand. Most
of all, it is the story of the fear of the unknown and the breathtaking, marvelous
opportunity the government had to commune with life from beyond the stars
and how it lost that chance.
Majestic is engaging as science fiction, unnerving as possible fact. The New York Times
Majestic
© 1989 Wilson & Neff, Inc.
Synopsis courtesy of G.P. Putnams Sons