Friction by Rick Dobbertin - Sci Fi, Fantasy - When an alien mining crew set their sights on Earth's natural resources, they deploy an immense, stationary atmosphere in the path of our planet's 67,000-mph orbit around the Sun to use our high velocity against us, to burn off the Earth's crust for their global-scale strip-mining operation.  120 pages

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