Little Green Men

by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Book Overview

It's Not Easy Being GreenAt first it seems amusing when Kyle Valenti's skin takes on a lime-colored hue. But within hours, the hospital has become a disaster area, full of humans who look more like... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743418360
• ISBN13: 9780743418362
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

The best book

This book has an amazing plot that is intriguing, exciting and keeps you on your toes. The residents of Roswell are turning green as a result of the dead gandarium crystals seeping into the water table. With Liz's nerdy- ness and Max's good timing they discover the cure to the disease. Max's blood. But how do they get the cure to all of the sick people without getting quarantined themselves? Meanwhile, Kyle is pissed about being involved in another alien problem and he doesn't like having to break the law for their cause. Alex is whining too. Will they pull through or duck out? Isabel is stuck inside the hospital as more and more people are turning green. Her date to the movies is one of them. How will she pass the examinations of the doctors? The best book!!!!

A great story and a quick read.

This was really a more comical installment to the series of Roswell novels. Everyone turning green really makes for some funny moments in the story. The authors also really did their homework with the characters, using almost all of them very effectively in the story (with the exception of Isabel, who is stuck in a quarantine zone and just sits around watching the green people). It showed the group as a team, working together to solve the problem, which is linked back to events from an episode of Roswell that takes place before the events of this book. All in all, a fun story and an enjoyable book to read. I highly recommend it to my fellow Roswell fans.

That Was No Lime-Ade - That Was My Wife!

Nothing extraordinary, here - this book is a quick, breezy, easy read - but it does catch the style, tone and characters of the T.V. series extremely well. In fact, it reads like nothing more than one of the show's better-written episodes.When a substantial number of Roswell's population abruptly begin turning green, right before onlooker's eyes, you have to know the military is going to quickly surmise that some kind of diabolical germ warfare agent is at work and quarantine those affected. Roswell's resident aliens seem to be completely unaffected by the outbreak - even if some of their close friends in the know are stricken - but it goes without saying that this green-skinned madness has something to do with their otherworldly presence, and they know it. Max, Isabel, Michael and their alien-sympathizing friends have to find the solution within forty-eight hours, or not only will the afflicted locals remain green for the rest of their lives, but the military's investigations are sure to intensify and turn up the alien cause of this bizarre plague...and that will lead straight to our otherwise well-concealed alien trio.Fans of the series will love it. Newcomers will be entertained.

the population of roswell green? oh my!!!!

when kyle turns up green, the gang thinks this is really funny.but within a couple of hours, maria and alex and half of roswellare also green. the army is called in to quarintine the city against this disease and it is up to liz to find a cure. what shefinds in that if the cure is not found and given to the people in48 hours, they will become permantly green. this book has the whole gang racing against the clock to solve the problem and evengives tess a good part in all of it. the book could have been alittle more suspenseful though. it has a nice ideal but it wasnot carried through enough for me. but if you are a fan of roswell, and you are like me, we will take what we can get considering that the show has been cancelled for good.

Don't hate it because of Tess...

If you are a fan of Roswell and you hated the second season this may make you feel a bit better. The book is a quick read but a fun read as we follow their trials, some funny and some scary, trying to turn Maria, Alex and Kyle back to their human pale skin colors along with a part of the Roswell population who live on the same side of town as three of our POD Squad. The writers show the characters working as a team and supporting each other. Many fans did not like the introduction of Tess to the show but she is used here as a helpmate for the whole group and not as an interloper. References are made to what was happening on the show and even gives some insight to how Max and Liz were actually feeling towards each other even though they weren't together(are the authors Dreamers, too, dare we wonder?). The show has always been about growing up amongst the scifi background of Roswell, feeling alien be it from being a real alien or just not fitting in with the "IN" crowd and this book gives the Liz, Maria and Alex an insight about being Max, Isabel, Michael and Tess trying to blend in on Earth. If you need a quick, light read about some of your favorite characters, I think you will enjoy it.