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Neon Green: A Novel by Wappler, Margaret is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Neon Green: A Novel about?

It's the summer of 1994 in suburban Chicago: Forrest Gump is still in theaters, teens are reeling from the recent death of Kurt Cobain, & you can enter a sweepstakes for a spaceship from Jupiter to land in your backyard. Welcome to Margaret Wappler's slightly altered 90s. Everything's pretty much the way you remember it, except for the aliens.When a flying saucer lands in the Allens' backyard, family patriarch & environmental activist Ernest is up in arms. According to the company facilitating the visits, the spaceship is 100 percent non-toxic, & the green sludge it occasionally dumps in their backyard is totally biodegradable.As Ernest's panic increases, so do his questions: What are the effects of longterm exposure to the saucer? Why is it really here, flashing & beeping uselessly in the backyard? And why, above all else, is Ernest the only one worrying about it? At Ernest’s suggestion, the family starts logging the spaceship’s daily fits & starts. But the daily log doesn't get them any closer to figuring out the spaceship's comically erratic behavior; instead it becomes the family’s preferred & often pithy communications platform, a humorous foreshadowing of the electronic messa

Who reads Neon Green: A Novel?

Author

Wappler, Margaret

Publisher

Unnamed Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Science Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (66 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14