Strangers No More
Dover
Beschreibung
Drawn from the leading pulp magazines of the 1950s — Galaxy, Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and Fantastic Universe — these eight groundbreaking selections offer spellbinding science-fiction tales of encounters with Martians and other extraterrestrials. "e;Youth,"e; by Isaac Asimov, recounts two friends' discovery of a pair of strange little animals the morning after mysterious thunder without a storm. Philip José Farmer's "e;Rastignac the Devil"e; tells of a fight against despotism 300 years in the future, and in "e;Year of the Big Thaw,"e; by Marion Zimmer Bradley, a Connecticut farmer explains why he doesn't know the actual birthplace of his phenomenally gifted son.Other selections include "e;Warrior Race,"e; by Robert Sheckley, which focuses on breaking an enemy's spirit; "e;Alien Offer,"e; by Al Sevcik, concerning a risky chance to save Earth's children; Clifford D. Simak's "e;The World That Couldn’t Be,"e; in which a farmer must hunt down the unusual creatures destroying his crops; "e;Earthmen Bearing Gifts,"e; by Fredric Brown, telling of an attempted exchange by the red and blue planets; and Stanley G. Weinbaum's "e;A Martian Odyssey,"e; a tale that changed the course of science fiction.
