ALIEN by John E Muller They came out of the great abyss which lay around the Earth, from the planet of a star so distant that it could not be seen with the naked eye; and their purpose was survival and the conquest of Earth. They were alien and possessed a mysterious force which lay at the very origin of human comprehension; the ability to enter into a man's mind, to make him think the thoughts they chose, to make him hear and see and feel the things they wanted. Against such a force there seemed no defence; for who could say that the man or woman by his side was not motivated by one of these creatures? Who could say that his own thoughts and senses belonged to him and not to some 'thing' seated in some alien way inside his brain? ALIEN is a prophetic and intriguing novel of the near future, of what might happen when Man steps out into space, into that most beautiful, but most hostile, territory known to mankind. That life must exist on some other world is now generally accepted, that it could, in time, contact us, is probable; but that it could be anything like this, is the one possibility which makes this particular novel so incredible and disquieting. |
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