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A book (mid 2000s) about a kid getting an old laptop that connects him to aliens, the alien government (I think) coming after him?
The Next CEO of Stack OverflowTV show I think, where Aliens are leaving Earth, most people on Earth don't know that they are on EarthShort story where aliens colonize earth, a boy is made immortal and separated from familyLooking for a science fiction/fantasy game from my youthShow/movie about an Alien Cat?Humans winning an interstellar war against hive-minded aliens due to human nature(British?) SF anthology aimed at children/teens; girl born on Moon can speak every language, and man lives in sewers to avoid aliensBook about a tongueless teenager who might be an alienYA/childrens book I read in the mid-late 90s, about videogames & crocodiles?Book Identification - Children's sci-fi book about videogame aliensScience fiction book series about aliens that look exactly like humans, protagonist tries to rescue her brother from a government camp ran by aliens
I can't remember much other than a kid got an old laptop, maybe from his school, and wanted to play games on it but it's actually an alien laptop and connects him somehow to other aliens. I also remember an alien government or something chasing after the kid. It was a book aimed towards children, I read it in the mid 2000s when I was about 13. I also remember there being some kind of interactive website/game thing that was attached to it, but I can't find anything about it because I just can't remember enough and google has failed me.
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I can't remember much other than a kid got an old laptop, maybe from his school, and wanted to play games on it but it's actually an alien laptop and connects him somehow to other aliens. I also remember an alien government or something chasing after the kid. It was a book aimed towards children, I read it in the mid 2000s when I was about 13. I also remember there being some kind of interactive website/game thing that was attached to it, but I can't find anything about it because I just can't remember enough and google has failed me.
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I can't remember much other than a kid got an old laptop, maybe from his school, and wanted to play games on it but it's actually an alien laptop and connects him somehow to other aliens. I also remember an alien government or something chasing after the kid. It was a book aimed towards children, I read it in the mid 2000s when I was about 13. I also remember there being some kind of interactive website/game thing that was attached to it, but I can't find anything about it because I just can't remember enough and google has failed me.
story-identification aliens young-adult
I can't remember much other than a kid got an old laptop, maybe from his school, and wanted to play games on it but it's actually an alien laptop and connects him somehow to other aliens. I also remember an alien government or something chasing after the kid. It was a book aimed towards children, I read it in the mid 2000s when I was about 13. I also remember there being some kind of interactive website/game thing that was attached to it, but I can't find anything about it because I just can't remember enough and google has failed me.
story-identification aliens young-adult
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Thank you for the descriptive title. I recognised this instantly.
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Thank you for the descriptive title. I recognised this instantly.
– Rand al'Thor♦
Mar 24 at 10:27
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Thank you for the descriptive title. I recognised this instantly.
– Rand al'Thor♦
Mar 24 at 10:27
Thank you for the descriptive title. I recognised this instantly.
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This is almost certainly the Outernet series. I also read it in the early/mid 2000s. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia's description of the first book (emphasis mine); I include also mentions of some other key characters and story elements (Loaf, Merle, Bitz, Googie, Help) in case they ring bells for you:
On Jack Armstrong's birthday, he received a laptop computer from his parents, British residents working on a US military base. They have been having financial problems so he is grateful for the gift. He explores it with his friend Lothar Gelt (nicknamed Loaf) and their acquaintance Merle Stone, where they discover it is a piece of alien technology. Once turned on, it enables them to communicate with a stray dog around the base named "Bitz", who tells them he is actually code-named Sirius (a pun on the "Dog Star" of the same name). He and Merle's apparent cat (named Googie, code-name Vega), are both members of the "Friends", a group dedicated to resistance of The Tyrant, who leads the FOEs (Forces of Evil). Specifically, they are shape-shifters who have become permanently trapped in these Earth creature forms. They explain how The Tyrant has captured all of the servers in the Galaxy except for the one that Sirius and his companion Janus brought to Earth and disguised as the computer. The Server's "Help" program, which activates whenever its name is said, is sardonic and fails to live up to its name. Jack receives further proof of the truth of these odd revelations when he is teleported (called t-mailed) to meet Janus on another planet (teleportation through "N-Space" enables the characters to travel faster-than-light).
Throughout the series, Jack and the other main characters travel around the Galaxy being pursued by the FOEs, trying to stay alive and ultimately to bring down the Tyrant and the FOEs. Time travel gets involved in book 4 or 5, and there are some surprising twists at the end.
Wikipedia also mentions:
The book series asked the readers to access an internet site named www.go2outer.net. That site is no longer active and, in fact, is for sale.
I don't remember the details, but there was some fun interactive stuff you could do on that site, playing as if you were a member of the Friends working against the FOEs.
YES! THANKS! that's it!
– Borimir
Mar 24 at 17:20
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@Borimir Happy to help! Thank you for the opportunity to recall a series I'd half forgotten :-) Please don't forget to mark my answer as correct using the green checkmark on the left ...
– Rand al'Thor♦
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This is almost certainly the Outernet series. I also read it in the early/mid 2000s. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia's description of the first book (emphasis mine); I include also mentions of some other key characters and story elements (Loaf, Merle, Bitz, Googie, Help) in case they ring bells for you:
On Jack Armstrong's birthday, he received a laptop computer from his parents, British residents working on a US military base. They have been having financial problems so he is grateful for the gift. He explores it with his friend Lothar Gelt (nicknamed Loaf) and their acquaintance Merle Stone, where they discover it is a piece of alien technology. Once turned on, it enables them to communicate with a stray dog around the base named "Bitz", who tells them he is actually code-named Sirius (a pun on the "Dog Star" of the same name). He and Merle's apparent cat (named Googie, code-name Vega), are both members of the "Friends", a group dedicated to resistance of The Tyrant, who leads the FOEs (Forces of Evil). Specifically, they are shape-shifters who have become permanently trapped in these Earth creature forms. They explain how The Tyrant has captured all of the servers in the Galaxy except for the one that Sirius and his companion Janus brought to Earth and disguised as the computer. The Server's "Help" program, which activates whenever its name is said, is sardonic and fails to live up to its name. Jack receives further proof of the truth of these odd revelations when he is teleported (called t-mailed) to meet Janus on another planet (teleportation through "N-Space" enables the characters to travel faster-than-light).
Throughout the series, Jack and the other main characters travel around the Galaxy being pursued by the FOEs, trying to stay alive and ultimately to bring down the Tyrant and the FOEs. Time travel gets involved in book 4 or 5, and there are some surprising twists at the end.
Wikipedia also mentions:
The book series asked the readers to access an internet site named www.go2outer.net. That site is no longer active and, in fact, is for sale.
I don't remember the details, but there was some fun interactive stuff you could do on that site, playing as if you were a member of the Friends working against the FOEs.
YES! THANKS! that's it!
– Borimir
Mar 24 at 17:20
1
@Borimir Happy to help! Thank you for the opportunity to recall a series I'd half forgotten :-) Please don't forget to mark my answer as correct using the green checkmark on the left ...
– Rand al'Thor♦
Mar 24 at 17:21
add a comment |
This is almost certainly the Outernet series. I also read it in the early/mid 2000s. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia's description of the first book (emphasis mine); I include also mentions of some other key characters and story elements (Loaf, Merle, Bitz, Googie, Help) in case they ring bells for you:
On Jack Armstrong's birthday, he received a laptop computer from his parents, British residents working on a US military base. They have been having financial problems so he is grateful for the gift. He explores it with his friend Lothar Gelt (nicknamed Loaf) and their acquaintance Merle Stone, where they discover it is a piece of alien technology. Once turned on, it enables them to communicate with a stray dog around the base named "Bitz", who tells them he is actually code-named Sirius (a pun on the "Dog Star" of the same name). He and Merle's apparent cat (named Googie, code-name Vega), are both members of the "Friends", a group dedicated to resistance of The Tyrant, who leads the FOEs (Forces of Evil). Specifically, they are shape-shifters who have become permanently trapped in these Earth creature forms. They explain how The Tyrant has captured all of the servers in the Galaxy except for the one that Sirius and his companion Janus brought to Earth and disguised as the computer. The Server's "Help" program, which activates whenever its name is said, is sardonic and fails to live up to its name. Jack receives further proof of the truth of these odd revelations when he is teleported (called t-mailed) to meet Janus on another planet (teleportation through "N-Space" enables the characters to travel faster-than-light).
Throughout the series, Jack and the other main characters travel around the Galaxy being pursued by the FOEs, trying to stay alive and ultimately to bring down the Tyrant and the FOEs. Time travel gets involved in book 4 or 5, and there are some surprising twists at the end.
Wikipedia also mentions:
The book series asked the readers to access an internet site named www.go2outer.net. That site is no longer active and, in fact, is for sale.
I don't remember the details, but there was some fun interactive stuff you could do on that site, playing as if you were a member of the Friends working against the FOEs.
YES! THANKS! that's it!
– Borimir
Mar 24 at 17:20
1
@Borimir Happy to help! Thank you for the opportunity to recall a series I'd half forgotten :-) Please don't forget to mark my answer as correct using the green checkmark on the left ...
– Rand al'Thor♦
Mar 24 at 17:21
add a comment |
This is almost certainly the Outernet series. I also read it in the early/mid 2000s. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia's description of the first book (emphasis mine); I include also mentions of some other key characters and story elements (Loaf, Merle, Bitz, Googie, Help) in case they ring bells for you:
On Jack Armstrong's birthday, he received a laptop computer from his parents, British residents working on a US military base. They have been having financial problems so he is grateful for the gift. He explores it with his friend Lothar Gelt (nicknamed Loaf) and their acquaintance Merle Stone, where they discover it is a piece of alien technology. Once turned on, it enables them to communicate with a stray dog around the base named "Bitz", who tells them he is actually code-named Sirius (a pun on the "Dog Star" of the same name). He and Merle's apparent cat (named Googie, code-name Vega), are both members of the "Friends", a group dedicated to resistance of The Tyrant, who leads the FOEs (Forces of Evil). Specifically, they are shape-shifters who have become permanently trapped in these Earth creature forms. They explain how The Tyrant has captured all of the servers in the Galaxy except for the one that Sirius and his companion Janus brought to Earth and disguised as the computer. The Server's "Help" program, which activates whenever its name is said, is sardonic and fails to live up to its name. Jack receives further proof of the truth of these odd revelations when he is teleported (called t-mailed) to meet Janus on another planet (teleportation through "N-Space" enables the characters to travel faster-than-light).
Throughout the series, Jack and the other main characters travel around the Galaxy being pursued by the FOEs, trying to stay alive and ultimately to bring down the Tyrant and the FOEs. Time travel gets involved in book 4 or 5, and there are some surprising twists at the end.
Wikipedia also mentions:
The book series asked the readers to access an internet site named www.go2outer.net. That site is no longer active and, in fact, is for sale.
I don't remember the details, but there was some fun interactive stuff you could do on that site, playing as if you were a member of the Friends working against the FOEs.
This is almost certainly the Outernet series. I also read it in the early/mid 2000s. Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia's description of the first book (emphasis mine); I include also mentions of some other key characters and story elements (Loaf, Merle, Bitz, Googie, Help) in case they ring bells for you:
On Jack Armstrong's birthday, he received a laptop computer from his parents, British residents working on a US military base. They have been having financial problems so he is grateful for the gift. He explores it with his friend Lothar Gelt (nicknamed Loaf) and their acquaintance Merle Stone, where they discover it is a piece of alien technology. Once turned on, it enables them to communicate with a stray dog around the base named "Bitz", who tells them he is actually code-named Sirius (a pun on the "Dog Star" of the same name). He and Merle's apparent cat (named Googie, code-name Vega), are both members of the "Friends", a group dedicated to resistance of The Tyrant, who leads the FOEs (Forces of Evil). Specifically, they are shape-shifters who have become permanently trapped in these Earth creature forms. They explain how The Tyrant has captured all of the servers in the Galaxy except for the one that Sirius and his companion Janus brought to Earth and disguised as the computer. The Server's "Help" program, which activates whenever its name is said, is sardonic and fails to live up to its name. Jack receives further proof of the truth of these odd revelations when he is teleported (called t-mailed) to meet Janus on another planet (teleportation through "N-Space" enables the characters to travel faster-than-light).
Throughout the series, Jack and the other main characters travel around the Galaxy being pursued by the FOEs, trying to stay alive and ultimately to bring down the Tyrant and the FOEs. Time travel gets involved in book 4 or 5, and there are some surprising twists at the end.
Wikipedia also mentions:
The book series asked the readers to access an internet site named www.go2outer.net. That site is no longer active and, in fact, is for sale.
I don't remember the details, but there was some fun interactive stuff you could do on that site, playing as if you were a member of the Friends working against the FOEs.
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YES! THANKS! that's it!
– Borimir
Mar 24 at 17:20
1
@Borimir Happy to help! Thank you for the opportunity to recall a series I'd half forgotten :-) Please don't forget to mark my answer as correct using the green checkmark on the left ...
– Rand al'Thor♦
Mar 24 at 17:21
add a comment |
YES! THANKS! that's it!
– Borimir
Mar 24 at 17:20
1
@Borimir Happy to help! Thank you for the opportunity to recall a series I'd half forgotten :-) Please don't forget to mark my answer as correct using the green checkmark on the left ...
– Rand al'Thor♦
Mar 24 at 17:21
YES! THANKS! that's it!
– Borimir
Mar 24 at 17:20
YES! THANKS! that's it!
– Borimir
Mar 24 at 17:20
1
1
@Borimir Happy to help! Thank you for the opportunity to recall a series I'd half forgotten :-) Please don't forget to mark my answer as correct using the green checkmark on the left ...
– Rand al'Thor♦
Mar 24 at 17:21
@Borimir Happy to help! Thank you for the opportunity to recall a series I'd half forgotten :-) Please don't forget to mark my answer as correct using the green checkmark on the left ...
– Rand al'Thor♦
Mar 24 at 17:21
add a comment |
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Thank you for the descriptive title. I recognised this instantly.
– Rand al'Thor♦
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