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The Secret School: Preparation for Contact
Published Dec 1996 (Paperback Oct 1997)
In the new book, Strieber returns to his youth to recount a summer he spent
in a secret school in the woods near his childhood home in San Antonio,
and the nine lessons he learned that changed his life. These midnight forays
into the forest, while forgotten for over forty years, prepared him for the
events narrated in his previous three books.
Now, in what might be called a prequel to all
three books but also, in many senses, the conclusion of the journey he
began in Communion Strieber gives us The Secret School,
his quest for the meaning of his encounters.
Triggered by his first encounter in 1985, but
still half-hidden in shadow, only now has be begun to reconstruct these childhood
summers spent in secret adventure, these summers that prepared him for the reality
of life in the future.
Jumping between a childs-eye view and an
adults hindsight, Strieber deftly weaves an adventure that stretches across
the decades, landing (or rather, lifting off) at the place his new life started
when he met apparent extraterrestrials. As Strieber says in his introduction,
This is a book about the future what will happen in the next few
years, how things are likely to change.
The Secret School
© 1997 Walker & Collier, Inc.
Synopsis courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.