num_pages: 293
description: When a mysterious alien spacecraft approaches Earth and demands to speak with the President of the United States, then destroys a large Pacific island to demonstrate its strength and underscore its seriousness, you would expect the President to talk. Problem is, in the late twenty-first century, there is no President - not even a United States. In fact, in this world of the future, China rules the Americas; and to most people, USA and USSR are just quaint abbreviations in the historical dictionaries. Then the aliens prove unreasonable about accepting substitutes...so one Anglo rice-cultivator from the Heavenly Grain Collective Farm - near Biloxi, Mississippi - is forced to begin an adventure that will take him from peasant to President, from Pettyman to Spaceman.
language: English
title: Black Star Rising
titlecomplete: Black Star Rising
characters: Pettyman Castor
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Collections, Apocalyptic, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fantasy, Dystopia
ratings_count: 940
publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine Books (NYC)