Books like 2012 by Whitley Strieber
Whitley Strieber’s 2012 plunges readers into a world where the prophetic end‑of‑the‑world date falls apart, replaced by an alien invasion that erupts at sacred locations worldwide. As the extraterrestrial presence extracts human souls from their bodies, the surviving populations are left to grapple with the disintegration of daily life and the sudden collapse of social order. The novel examines the profound impact of human-alien encounters and the existential crisis that ensues when humanity’s most sacred rituals are turned into sites of cosmic violence.
First publish date: September 18, 2007
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Whitley Strieber
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