Here's an excerpt from The Nechi(r) the latest novel by Gene Thomas. You will never call anyone "four eyes" again. How it All Started In the war between us and the Nechi dating back to the last century and for most of my family's life times, we were getting our asses kicked. The Nechi were a savage race who had found and studied us long before we knew they even existed. To say they were not human was an understatement, yet they had been living covertly among us for many centuries. Looking back on those days now, I can't imagine how we didn't know they were here. But here they were and once they had an inkling they could exterminate us or use us for more than target practice, all of us realized back then that we were in a battle for the species - one at the outset, we seemed to be losing badly...