The Orion Plan

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By Mark Alpert ’82

Published March 4, 2016

A probe that lands in New York City marks the beginning of an incoming alien invasion in the science-fiction thriller The Orion Plan. With the government slow to react, a NASA scientist takes it upon himself to lead an effort to stop the probe before it is too late. Mark Alpert ’82 has written numerous books and serves as a contributing editor at Scientific American. 

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