MartinForgeWorks wrote:The scary part of this story was how believable the human cooperation was. Normal German people chose to fallow Hitler with horrible acts and so many other examples around the world of such things. Seems the same would happen with an alien invasion.
That part was believable, and we see that kind of behavior (with much less murder, for now) every day -- in the roads, schools, airports, etc.
What wasn't believable, at all, is how docile the population was. Sheeple can, and do, put up with outrageous abuse (and that's just at the DMV), but it stops at blatant slaughter on the streets! There would have been everything from riots, to immediate retaliation on individual enforcers, to all kinds of passive and active resistance tactics (from every side of any political, social, or religious spectrum). The aliens, and anyone appearing to support them, would be assaulted repeatedly.
The story's protagonist wouldn't have been spit on, in that bar. She would have been killed days before.
This major plot-holage really bumped me, but the story was otherwise a great
appetite whetter for follow on stories about what happens next.