A Conversation with an Alien

Man claims an alien stranded on Earth for 100,000 years visited his apartment and explained key concepts of quantum mechanics.

The authors of TAL: Conversations with an Alien opted for a bit of melodrama, perhaps to spice things up initially and pique readers’ curiosity.

To this end, the book is mysteriously published as “Anonymous” and billed as a “conversation with an alien.” But what we have here is a straightforward and lucid conversation of quantum physics theory, presented in classic dialectic form.

Only at the end does the author identify this book as a work of “pure fiction.”

But wait a minute!

I notice that the publishers of this book have recently modified their position about the true nature of TAL. The editors updated the book description on Amazon to say this:

“The author of this book, who chooses to remain anonymous even to us, submitted this draft and we chose to publish it. The author writes of an encounter that they had with a being called ‘Tal’ who looked human but claimed to be an alien. The author believes that this person was, in fact, an alien due to the content of their conversation and the events that led to and followed it. The author requests we divulge no…