Is Earth ready for an extraterrestrial visitor? Is the alien prepared for what awaits him?
Dee didn't plan to become the world's most wanted illegal alien. He just wanted to find his friends.
A cyborg ANT from Bilaluna, Dee crash-lands in a Mexican cenote and embarks on an epic road trip from the Yucatan to the Yukon across a splintered near-future America. He travels with only a syntax generator and a bag of cicadas and has little understanding of human politics. He befriends Earth insects, rescues kidnapped teens, and battles the elements and a trigger-happy border patrol. His key ally? Seka, a brilliant Indigenous chemist with a sordid past, a spirit strong enough to tame grizzlies, and a heart warm enough to melt through his hard exoskeleton.
But as ICE agents close in and climate disasters escalate, Dee realizes his warning about environmental collapse might come too late. Can Dee and Seka spark the change Earth desperately needs?
Find out in Cyborg Contact, an action-packed cli-fi road trip featuring first contact, political satire, and the ultimate fish-out-of-water hero. Grab your copy to ride shotgun with the galaxy's most charming ANT today!
Tropes
First contact, fish-out-of-water, road trip adventure, climate apocalypse, unlikely romance, found family, political satire.
Microtropes
Alien POV, cross-species bond, damsel-in-distress, hunted by authorities, stranded together, nature's fury, Indigenous wisdom, secret police.
Cyborg Contact has already been awarded a Gold Book Award from Literary Titan, who say "Cyborg Contact, Book 4 of Terry Birdgenawâs Antunite Chronicles, is a big-hearted science fiction adventure..." and "Readers who like ecological science fiction with humor, a hopeful outlook, and a narrator whoâs unlike anyone else in the room will find a lot to enjoy here."
It has also won a Gold Badge Award from BookView Review, who say "Birdgenaw transforms an outlandish premise into an engaging road-trip adventure that mixes first contact, political satire, environmental advocacy, and surprisingly detailed insect biology." and Cyborg Contact is "a charmingly unconventional cli-fi adventure that proves humanity sometimes needs an alienâs perspective to recognize what is worth saving."