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I knew I’d have to defend that selection. There’s a couple of reasons I included it, the biggie being that most your basic W.o.W. story breaks down when it comes to why. It’s never mentioned in the original. If Footfall has a reason, I can’t remember it. Independence Day throws one in as an afterthought but that one breaks down on examination. To steal our resources, please, everything down here is already heavily abundant in the solar system; the only reason to takes ours is thoroughness.
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To be honest I would never have thought of needing a reason that ET would invade, I just think it could have been done a lot better by another writer than Dietz. But I will have to give that some more thought, when it comes to other books that come down the pike, with an invasion theme, this one I just did not like for the racial reasons only.
Declan