Series: Complete Christopher Anvil
Genre: SF
ISBN: 141655601X
Pages: 624 pages
Publisher: Baen
Price: $7.99
Reader Rating: Not rated
Genre: SF
ISBN: 141655601X
Pages: 624 pages
Publisher: Baen
Price: $7.99
Reader Rating: Not rated
Description: Humans on the space frontiers may have enough problems with befuddled bureaucrats, rules that don't fit the realities of very dangerous situations, and general rear-echelon incompetence without bringing in unfriendly aliens, but it's that kind of universe. On the other hand, the aliens are anything but omnipotent and have plenty of problems of their own. Here, for the first time, the stories and short novels of the war with the Outs are collected into a novel-length chronicle. The Outs had mental powers they could use to make humans see illusions and convince them to obey the Outs. Obviously, they were unbeatable - until some troublesome humans found their Achilles' heel. Another set of aliens arrive to conquer the Earth with the promise of eternal youth and healthfulness, and might have won, if some humans weren't too plain ornery not to be suspicious. Who's the best human envoy to deal with aliens who can read minds and learn anything their opponents know - the man who knows little or nothing, of course, including why he was sent there.
A private investigator quickly and brilliantly solves a baffling case - then wakes up and finds it was only a dream and the case is still unsolved. And the same thing happens again every night. These and other stories of human/alien conflict fill this large volume by the master of wryly sardonic science fiction adventure.
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