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THE WAR GAMES

ALISTAIR McGOWN

LED BY THE WAR LORD, HUMANOID ALIENS FROM Galactic Sector 973 use a nearby planet to host an audacious experiment. Soldiers are plucked from historical Earth wars and confined to battle zones separated by fog-like barriers. The soldiers are brainwashed by the aliens’ mind-control techniques to believe they are still fighting their own wars on Earth. The aliens hope that this specially engineered conflict will produce an elite fighting force to help them conquer the galaxy.

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