TALL WAR - Houser, Stephen

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Résumé :
Don't wet yourself, my mother-in-law Corkabee says. I almost did. She looks me straight in the eye, something she usually doesn't do unless I am under suspicion for a misdeed. I cower instinctively. Then she unloads her bombshell. There's a spaceship in the Potomac. I stare at Corkabee. I don't know what to think. I don't know what to say. So, I do what all young men do in similar circumstances. I repeat what she just said. A spaceship crashed in the Potomac? It didn't crash, my mother-in-law corrects me. Authorities say that it was designed to land on water. To splashdown. It looks like it came in hard, though, and sustained some damage. On the Potomac? I say dumbfounded. I am amazed and frightened. A five hundred year old spaceship has landed on the Potomac River. Which means that inside that ship are the first full-size, six-foot, original humans to show up on Earth since the Downsizing. With a little bit of luck, they all died on impact....