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134.117.137.147
Since: Dec, 1969
14th Sep, 2011 05:32:58 PM
Black Star Rising by Frederik Pohl.
ACarlssin
Since: Jan, 2001
15th Sep, 2011 07:50:17 AM
YES. Thank-you.
I half-remember a science-fiction book. The title was "Bad Moon Rising" or "Dark Moon Rising" or something similar. (Searching on Google and Wikipedia has resulted in a large number of things that match those titles but are not what I'm looking for).
The plot is that a group of aliens come to Earth and wish to speak to the President of the USA. The problem is that the USA was invaded by China years ago, so the USA (and therefor the president) no longer exists... So a simple farmboy is "elected" president overnight and sent to meet the aliens. He travels to their planet and finds out that they intend to "help" the USA by destroying China, and also learns that every other alien race they've ever "helped" has been completely obliterated. (So he has to stop them, which he does... but you have enough to recognize the book by now if you're familiar with it.)