A Girl Named Sandy

A Girl Named Sandy

Paul Kater

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When Paul Eric Carmichael, an older British astrophysicist, meets Sandy, a young girl from the United States, his life goes overboard in more than one way. As he tries to make sense of it all, he learns things about aliens and their mysterious devices. In his work he faces challenges as well, because what are those strange flying objects that seem to be heading towards our solar system?

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Space ship rendering: Mike Heywood.

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Thank you, everyone who helped to make this book come true. Carol for proofreading, finding the typos and a great trip to Jodrell Bank, Renée and Mike for the amazing cover, Vicky and many others for luring me over to Bristol so often where the idea for this story was born, and thank you to the city of Bristol for their University.

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