All Seated on the Ground

All Seated on the Ground is a science fiction novella by American writer Connie Willis, originally published in the December 2007 issue of American magazine Asimov's Science Fiction and as a standalone volume from Subterranean Press.[1] It won the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novella.[2]

"All Seated on the Ground"
AuthorConnie Willis
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Science fiction
Published inAsimov's Science Fiction
Publication typeMagazine
Publication dateDecember 2007

Plot summary

The story follows Meg, a newspaper columnist who has joined a commission studying aliens that have landed on the University of Denver campus. The aliens glare at everyone, and allow themselves to be led to various locations, but the commission has no idea how to communicate with them. Following an incident at a local mall during the Christmas shopping season, Meg and a school choir director team up to try to decipher the aliens' actions before they leave Earth.

gollark: Learning about electronics might be interesting.
gollark: Hmm. Well. It seems like you've gone through basically everything I might suggest and also a large amount of things I haven't, so no idea then.
gollark: More "potentially interesting things to do" than "challenge" but:- play some fun computer games- learn programming- read books (there are lots of authors providing books for free because of the whole situation, I find lots through reddit, and amazon's kindle unlimited is fairly cheap and has lots)- do... exercise of some sort... if you like that, I guess- learn about some other subject which interests you, there are loads of resources for stuff on the internet these days- drawing/other art stuff might be interesting for you if you're good at that- write things? There's r/writingprompts on reddit for that sort of thing- learning lockpicking is apparently quite cheap, might be fun, and is somewhat useful (and legal as long as you only do it on stuff you own, probably)
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gollark: If you still just want "potentially interesting things to do" I can probably come up with some stuff.

References
  1. ISFDB entry
  2. "Locus Index to SF Awards". Archived from the original on 2010-10-19. Retrieved 2010-10-11.
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