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Wed, 02 Oct 2013 18:48:26 -0800 en-us 60 Help ID a scifi story
about aliens and a quarantined Earth Can you help my friend
identify this scifi short story about aliens and a shield around
the earth? Here's his description:<br> <br> <em>It begins with
an Alien "away team" landing on the Earth a long time after
Earth has been imprisoned/quarantined within a shield
(encompassing, I believe, the Earth _and_ the Moon) preventing
space travel. I think this was because humans were deemed too
violent or expansionist. Anyway, the Earth looks underpopulated
and overgrown, until the aliens are captured and taken
underground to explain themselves.<br> <br> Turns out the Aliens
need help and are willing to drop the shield to get it. There is
much rejoicing "The shield is down!", and the Aliens discover
that the _entire_ _planet_ has been converted into a spaceship
and that humans are again much mor