[Penguin Readers Level 3] Contemporary / British English The mysterious StarGate is 10,000 years old. When a group of soldiers go through it, they travel millions of miles to a strange new world. There they have to fight to stay alive. Will they live? Will they find a way to get back to Earth?
Planet Earth is under attack and the human race is threatened with extinction unless the military can summon the strength and courage to fight off an unknown but extremely lethal enemy.
It came out of deep space, an alien ship one fourth the size of our moon, protected by an impenetrable force field, destroying the earth's biggest cities with cold, methodical precision. One by one, they went down: New York, Tokyo, Los Angeles -- no one knew how to stop it, no one knew exactly what it was. The army was powerless, President Whitmore was stunned, and the people were beginning to panic. Enter a ragtag team of unsuspecting heroes who know survival isn't the main thing, it's the only thing. David Levinson, a cable man and gifted hacker who could tap into any computer system and stand it on its ear in minutes; Jasmine Dubrow, an exotic dancer and a gutsy single mom who would kill an alien barefisted to save her young son; Russell Casse, a broken-down crop duster with a weakness for Jack Daniels and hopeless causes; and Marine Captain Steven Hiller, a frustrated would-be astronaut who has the right stuff and knows it. Although they aren't fully aware of it, the fate of what's left of the world depends on them. It will take their combined grit, intelligence and courage to survive, and to uncover a devastating UFO secret that has been hidden from the public for more than 40 years.
2 juillet. Dans tous les pays de la planète, des phénomènes étranges se produisent.Toutes les émissions de télévision sont brouillées, les communications par satellite interrompues, les ordinateurs deviennent fous... C'est alors qu'un radiotélescope capte des ondes émises par un OVNI. Et ces visiteurs venus d'ailleurs n'ont pas des intentions franchement pacifiques ! Bientôt d'immenses disques de feu surplombent toutes les grandes villes... Dans deux jours c'est la fête de l'Indépendance aux Etats-Unis : parades, feux d'artifice, fanfares et fanions. Mais cette année, la fête risque de s'appeler... l'Apocalypse !
2 juli. Over de hele wereld wordt het dagelijkse leven verstoord door onheilspellende atmosferische verschijnselen. Satellietverbindingen worden op onverklaarbare wijze verbroken en iedereen verkeert in de greep van angst. Langzaam wordt duidelijk dat de wereld in bezit is genomen door buitenaardse machten die maar één doel hebben: de vernietiging van de mensheid. In de loop van de volgende dagen verandert de wereld voorgoed en onherkenbaar. Independence day is het boek naar de sensationele film over een dag die begon al alle andere, maar die eindigde in een nachtmerrie