Earth still

by Annette Leddy

ISBN 9780996227612

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Playful and slyly original, Earth Still tells the story of Patricia, a museum curator and the mother of a young son, who falls for a new neighbor, Rennie, in the aftermath of an alien spaceship's unexplained landing in present day Los Angeles. The presence of the ship, along with the apparent absence of a pilot, precipitates a social crisis, while Patricia's affair with the mysterious Rennie creates its own tensions. Referencing art house film directors Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard, Italian futurist writer F.T. Marinetti, and classic science fiction movies, Earth Still is a transfiguring love story, a meditation on the interrelationship of science fiction and visual art, and a riveting fantasy about our obsession with aliens.

Praise for Earth Still

Annette Leddy has written an ingenious re-imagination of the 1951 movie The Day the Earth Stood Still -- in a domestic key, with art-historical overtones.  Earth Still, like its alien visitor, unfolds its humane agenda with charm and grace.  Read the book, watch the movie, then read it again.
       
                     Carter Scholz, author of Radiance (PicadorUSA)                        and Gypsy (PM Press)
 
Leddy skillfully makes the extraordinary seem an everyday occurrence in the local life of Los Angeles. Its citizens manage to face the simultaneously dramatic and absent invading force with restraint and humor.

                      William Leavitt, artist and playwright, author                            of The Particles (of White Naugahyde)