Somerville

Close encounters of the quiet kind

Aliens have invaded, the Earth is in ruins, yet here I am standing next to a pile of rubble, holding a bucket I’ve dredged out of a well. I think I’m meant to take the bucket and use it to scoop up some voxelated alien goo which I can then use to encourage some spherical, skittering, miniature aliens to do… something or other. I haven’t worked that part out yet. Mostly, I keep trying to remember whether the protagonists in H.G. Wells or John Wyndham novels ever survived an alien invasion through the cunning use of a bucket. In its opening moments, meanwhile, Somerville really does echo the mundane nightmarishness of War of the Worlds or The Day of the Triffids. It follows a typical modern family as their quiet…

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