An Alien View of Science Fiction Conventions

Corey grew up being abducted by aliens and wanting to stay on the spaceship. Instead, each time the aliens put him back with his parents who were addicted to drugs. After high school, the abductions had stopped and his parents had overdosed. Corey was alone and wanted answers from the aliens as to why they kept bringing him home and not save him from his parents. He became obsessed with science fiction conventions where he decided real aliens were mixed in with the costume humans.
Alice refused to accept her dad's death, which made talking to her mom difficult after she remarried a year later. Alice rationalized that her dad was an alien who suddenly went back to his home planet. She wanted to find someone to explain where he went. She decided one of those weird science fiction conventions was a good place to find an alien who knew her dad.
Separately they attend the same science fiction convention and together meet the alien Yoo Boo. She is getting her doctorate in human love and wants to help Alice and Corey on their quests for answers. They all agree, and the first stop is to a sci-fi con on a planet several light years away.
On their journeys, Alice and Corey meet a galactic assortment of people who would be aliens on Earth. Except, in space no one is an alien.
After finishing their individual quests and Yoo Boo has her doctorate, Alice and Corey meet again. They found much more than what they sought at the start of their quests. Now, they must decide on their futures.

After a childhood on a Virginia dairy farm, I spent over three decades working in the Pentagon which qualified me to write science fiction. I have had almost thirty of my stories published in magazines and journals and I self-published several novels, all different. This guarantees me no author success as a brand name. Like Studs Terkel wrote, "Hope dies last."I live in eastern North Carolina where I belong to writing groups, teach a creative writing class at the library, and volunteer at nonprofits to include writing grants.More about me can be found at stanleybtrice.com. Please visit and sign up for my newsletter! I try to be different.Please try out my other books. I like all of them. More are coming.Peace begins with a smile.-Mother Theresa