NORTH VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 18, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- In a creative new novel by Lilian Marsland, The Takeover (now available through AuthorHouse), what starts out as a dangerous spider problem turns out to be a dilemma that threatens all of humanity.
All hope for the world seems lost when frightening spider creatures with human faces begin biting people, sucking all their blood and killing them. Panic ensues, and humans soon realize that these spiders are not just a strange phenomenon in nature, they are an alien race bent on taking over Earth. Nuclear testing on Earth has destroyed their planet, and they want revenge.
After an ingenious plan by the U.S. president, most of the spiders are destroyed, but a few on an airplane survive. They are angry and take the president hostage in their powerful webs. They have the world in their grasp and slowly implement an authoritarian rule over humanity.
The spiders transform themselves more and more to look like humans. Human women are enamored with them and the spiders plan to mate with as many humans as possible. A new race is formed, and the spider nation seems content in its new environment.
When Tamon, leader of the spider nation, has a strange desire to visit a distant planet, they take off for the unknowns of space travel. When they arrive on this planet, its leader informs them that they are, in fact, former residents. Several decades earlier they were forced to find a new planet to live on, and they traveled to Earth. A strange virus affected them upon their arrival, thus creating the explosive situation that occurred.
A unique novel, The Takeover explores the possibility that there is life in the universe and that it is not always peaceful.
Marsland, a lifelong lover of stories, has four daughters and 14 grandchildren.