

(The 1st Wave knocked out all power, the 2nd Wave brought disastrous tidal waves, the 3rd Wave unleashed a plague and the 4th Wave saw the Others disguise themselves as humans.)

It continues the stories of Cassie Sullivan, the teenage heroine who spent much of the first novel searching for her younger brother Sam, and her former high school crush and now soldier Ben Parish after the aliens known as The Others unleashed the first four waves of their five-step plan to seemingly wipe out humanity. While The 5th Wave is making its way to the screen, Yancey is focused on finishing off the second book of the trilogy, The Infinite Sea (out Sept. If it was like a flashing yellow light, that would be bad." "I tried to Google that and I didn't get much back," Yancey says with a laugh. The movie adaptation of his young-adult sci-fi novel The 5th Wave has a screenwriter, producer and a cast to be announced soon, but he's still at a loss when it comes to certain Hollywood lingo - for example, he's still not sure what it means when he was told The 5th Wave film has a "blinking green light." Rick Yancey is preparing to go from mere author to "media guy."
