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They survived the alien visitation. But can they survive each other?

No-one had heard of Victoryville before. But when an alien spaceship appears, hovering over the town, the whole world suddenly knows its name.

After twenty-four hours and a failed military assault, the ship disappears without a trace. When the outside world restores communication to the town, thousands are reported missing.

Those who remain in Victoryville are irreparably changed. However, only some have been left with strange red marks upon their skin.

Quarantined from the outside world and segregated within, alliances are made and relationships are shattered, as everyone fights for the truth - and for their own survival.

From the best-selling author of the Aurora series, The Time of the Stripes is a sci-fi thriller where The Leftovers meets The Lord of The Flies.

Length: 414 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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Born and raised in the seaside/country town of Geraldton, Western Australia, Amanda hails from fishing and farming stock. The youngest of four children, her three brothers raised her on a diet of Rocky, Rambo, Muhammad Ali and AC/DC. She moved to Perth (Western Australia) to study film & television/creative writing at Murdoch University, earning her a BA in Communication Studies. Perth has been her home ever since, aside from a nineteen-month stint in London (England) where she dabbled in Film & TV 'Extra' work. Her third novel 'Aurora: Meridian' was shortlisted for an Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (2014). --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN : B075NZK1XB
Publisher : Centralis Entertainment (29 November 2017)
Language : English
File size : 3748 KB
Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
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Print length : 414 pages

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- 3,501 in First Contact Science Fiction (Books)
- 3,996 in Alien Invasion Science Fiction

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Carol Gray

A thought provoking page turner

Reviewed in Australia on 1 December 2017

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I couldn't put this book down.The author has created a town with characters that are totally believable. An event takes place and in a heartbeat everything that you once knew has changed. There is no gentle landing here, you are thrust into a situation that will test you to your core. Will you like what you see inside yourself when you find you're stuck between a rock and a hard place. How will you react? Can and will you rise to the challenge? Which side would you be on? And we've heard the saying about good intentions and the road to hell; well we take a trip down that path also.
I love Amanda Bridgeman's ability to write scenes which I can clearly see in my mind. This book is thought provoking and makes her one of the very best and I would recommend this book to everyone.

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Mark

Taciturn aliens provoke fear, loathing, and boundless Stupidity in American country town.

Reviewed in Australia on 23 October 2018

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Yet another very clever and well written story by Amanda Bridgeman. ET aliens invade, sort of. They stealthily infiltrate US airspace, park above a town, probe the citizens, abduct a whole bunch, then depart. Those not taken in this seemingly random mass kidnapping wake up to find they either do or do not have one or more red stripes running from chin to chest. Nobody knows why so in typically American authoritarian style the military and CDC lock 'em down, fence off the town, assume the worst, and segregate the survivors. Striped versus nonstriped becomes the issue which is made worse by the authorities withholding what little information they actually have.

So the story is how this all plays out: being USA lots of people have guns of course and the baddies invoke their inalienable right to be both ignorant and stupid as often as possible. There are lots of characters however, mostly well developed - to the extent needed - and the plot moves briskly from crisis to crisis. I recommend to read this book; find out if dystopia really is the new "American Dream".

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Not My Favourite, but Good Premise

Reviewed in Australia on 8 August 2018

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I really like this author's writing style and her plots. I loved the Aurora series.
This didn't quite do it for me, although I liked the premise, and I enjoyed the breakdown of society into stripes and cleanskins, and thought it was realistically done. Given the nature of humans, and the need for Governments to tow a political line, the idea of a barricade through a town based on a potential contagion isn't too tough a bow to draw. Same with the fallout, and the dog eat dog nature of what might go on.
My problem was, other than 'the good guys' I really didn't care enough about the striped crew to want to root for them, and found myself skipping sections that didn't involve Abbie, Richard and Lysart.
I kept expecting a different outcome in regards the reason the aliens chose Victoryville, and more about the pollution around the earth and environmental contamination, and how that might ultimately draw an alien race to certain polluted hotspots around the globe.
We still don't know what happened to the 'healthy' people who went missing... and maybe that's a plan for a Book 2.

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Dave

Very human Sci-fi tale

Reviewed in Australia on 7 December 2017

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This is a great and unexpected read. I really like Bridgeman's other series and knew this was a stand alone.

And stand alone it does. It's a great story that doesn't lean on tropes and is its own entity. The story is solely focussed on a small town and its inhabitants and what would happen when when they are isolated from the world and aliens have 'touched' the town (I'm trying not to give spoilers).

The story feels very real as to how the citizens would react - and its not always pretty.

Grab this one - great read.

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Melissa ThomasHall

Great read on an Alien visit with a difference.

Reviewed in Australia on 22 November 2018

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I love a good book that looks at humanity after any sort of event. In this read it’s the impact on a small town after what authorities believe is a visit from aliens. It is well written and keeps you engaged from the start and it looks at the effects on a small town that becomes isolated from the world and humanity becomes its own worst enemy. This book was interesting, engaging and was a great story.

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Scott Eastaway

Enthralling

Reviewed in Australia on 28 July 2018

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Loved it from start to finish. Such an entertaining story that reflects an understanding of how fickle we can be when others seem different to us.
Great work Amanda, now I’m off to start the Aurora saga.

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Don't bother

Reviewed in Australia on 4 November 2018

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poorly written, badly thought out and a pain to read

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Shell

An excellent alien invasion story with a twist

Reviewed in Australia on 29 November 2017

I really enjoyed The Time of the Stripes and found it hard to put down. It seemed so terrifyingly real as I was catapulted into the lives of the people who had survived a mysterious visitation from aliens. With a large portion of the town missing and many of those left behind marked with red stripes, the characters stuggled to comprehend what had happened to them, why it had happened and if the aliens would return to finish what they started.
Filled with a rich range of people, the conflict that arises from the way different factions react to the phenononen felt so true I couldn't help but wonder what I would do in that situation. Segregated, isolated, the inevitable rise of tensions between the two sides had me engrossed as I cheered on the characters I had come to love as they fought against those who were using the conflict to serve their own agendas.
The ending left me gasping and I can't wait to find out what happens next. (

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A flawed novel from a writer with some potential

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2019

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I have to admit that I skipped large sections of this book but I read enough to inform this review. The alien spacecraft only makes a brief, Midwich Cuckoo-like, appearance at the beginning of the book and a couple of equally brief ones near the end. The book mainly deals with how the people in the small town it chooses, deal with having been visited, some of them abducted and some of those left having been 'striped'. It may be more satisfying to people who like human drama more than SF, but I doubt it. The mayor of the town is one of the central characters but his behaviour is hard to believe - how he and his colleagues ever got elected when they are so politically inept I could not understand. That is not the only flaw in the novel but it is a major one. Nobody suggests the most obvious explanation for why the abductees were chosen to be taken, even when the basic criteria have been worked out (to start a breeding colony of humans). There is also no explanation for why the aliens were able to make their assessment of who to take, who to leave and who to stripe in a day but then took so long to return, apart from giving enough time for the story of the townsfolk to develop.

Having said all that, the writing itself was quite good and some of the characters and stories were interesting. With a little more thought and work, and critical input from others, this could have been made into a decent novel.

HappyBunny

A new take on alien visitation.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 July 2018

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Well this was a surprising book in that it dealt with an old topic but put a completely new spin on it. And rather than dealing with the aliens the reader is pulled into the lives of those affected by the visitation. The author pulls this off very well as the book kept me wanting to turn the next page.

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D. J. Sienkiewicz

Sci fi soap

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 December 2018

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Very dull, nothing much happens.

Carol Hill

Good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 June 2018

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Really enjoyed this book, great story, hope there is more to follow.

Treacle33

Exceptionally good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 June 2018

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Kept me riveted to the pages from start to finish. I look forward in hope that there is a follow up

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