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The Giants of Sector 7

Experience the familiar world of melodrama, serious stakes, and the naval tradition of Star Trek The Original Series and the suburban surrealism of The Twilight Zone, with new eyes. A story about finding dignity in the absurd, it’s War of the Worlds, but the aliens are a quarter of an inch tall and the humans are just lonely.



book cover of Penn Owen Hurst's Science Fiction Comedy novel

Dr. Elias Stargazeir is a retired astrophysicist, and widower, who spends his days fixing toasters and talking to his fern. High Imperator Kaelen is a ruthless warlord of the Zenthorian Hegemony, "Conquerer of a thousand worlds", who intends on making Earth his next conquest.

Dr. Elias Stargazeir discovers a tiny alien armada has crash-landed in his backyard. Elias thinks he has found new friends; High Imperator Kaelen thinks he has found a terrifying "Titan" who must be pacified. What follows is a First Contact scenario gone wrong in the most polite way possible. Instead of an alien invasion, Elias finds himself in a bureaucratic nightmare: a tiny, aggressive empire that intended on conquoring Earth, but Elias accidentally conquers them with a block of cheddar cheese.


High Imperator Kaelan sees Elias’s "peace offering" as a biological weapon, and his house cat is a Class-10 Kaiju. The fate of the Earth hangs in the balance when Kaelen's boss says he's on his way from Zenthoria to begin extraction of Earth's resources. Elias and Kaelen devise a plan to fake the world's destruction using cereal boxes, a leaf blower and some leftover fireworks.

Together, they find harmony in their new found coexistence. Elias finds new purpose with a family to care for; Kaelen finds a "God" who actually listens.

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