The 5th Wave (novel)
The cover art of The 5th Wave
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| Author | Rick Yancey |
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| Cover artist | Allied Integrated Marketing |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | The 5th Wave |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Penguin Group |
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Publication date
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May 8, 2013 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 457 |
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| Followed by | The Infinite Sea |
The 5th Wave is a young adult, science fiction novel. Written by American author Rick Yancey, the novel was published in 2013 and is the first installment in The 5th Wave trilogy. Critics have compared the book favorably to The Hunger Games and The Road, and noted that it "should do for aliens what Twilight did for vampires."Sony Pictures released a film adaptation in January 2016.
Set roughly in present-day Dayton, Ohio, The 5th Wave follows 16-year-old Cassie Sullivan as she tries to survive in a world devastated by the waves of an alien invasion that have already devastated the Earth's population and knocked humankind back to the Stone Age. She is headed to a "training" facility established by the aliens in the hopes of saving her five-year-old brother, Sam, who was taken there.
Cassie comes across a gas station where she finds a wounded soldier. She kills him after mistaking the crucifix in his hand for a gun. This intensely disturbs her. While on an Ohio highway, on her way to find her brother, she comes across the recently deceased. Cassie is then suddenly shot in the leg by an unknown sniper. She takes cover under a car and has to make a difficult choice: try to flee the area and risk being shot by the sniper, or bleed to death under the car.
The plot then jumps to Ben Parish, Cassie's crush in high school, who is sick with the disease spread during the 3rd Wave; he is tended to by a friend named Chris. Ben is taken by soldiers to a woman named Dr. Pam and miraculously recovers from his disease. Dr. Pam tells him the Others raided his camp, Camp Haven at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, by inhabiting human hosts and posing as refugees. Dr. Pam puts Ben through a program called "Wonderland" and takes him to a hospital room, where Chris sits wired to a chair. Dr. Pam lets Ben look through a special eyepiece to find that a creature is attached to Chris's brain, which Dr. Pam confirms is an Other. She explains to Ben that the only way to kill the creature inside is to kill the host, which Reznik, a senior drill instructor, pressures Ben into doing.
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