Friend or Foe?

Scholastic ISBN 0439981190 (UK) 0439343518 (US)

"Superbly written, it is original and funny "

Strange things are happening among the ancient ruins of Stonehenge. Aliens fleeing the harsh rule of The Tyrant have arrived on Earth with The Server - a device that allows contact with the Outernet, the Galaxy-wide Web. Things on this small planet may never be the same again!

When The Server comes into the possession of Jack Armstrong and his friends Merle and Loaf, the result is chaos: Close Encounters of several different kinds, cats and dogs who aren't what they seem, a trip to a theme park planet, and the arrival on Earth of a hapless alien ticket inspector, who goes on the rampage... Jack is entrusted with looking after The Server until the Friends can rescue it. For if it falls into the clutches of The Tyrant, the leader of the Forces of Evil, he will take control of the Outernet, discover the identity of The Weaver and become the undisputed ruler of the Galaxy. This would not be a good thing...

The 2Steves say... "Before we began writing the first Outernet book, we visited a USAF base near Cambridge, England, and researched Stonehenge, so that we could describe these places accurately.. Unfortunately, we couldn't visit any planets or meet up with ALFs, so we had to had to use our imagination! We also spent some time deciding what we would call the goodies and baddies - we decided on FOEs (Forces of Evil) and Friends just fell into place because of the phrase, 'Friend or Foe?'."