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The Visitors (Novel)
Series: Novel
Genre: SF
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The Visitors by Clifford D. Simak

Description: It looked like a big black box - perhaps fifty feet high, two hundred long. And it had settled squarely on forestry student Jerry Conklin's car, parked next to a fishing stream outside Lone Pine, Minnesota.

The townspeople of Lone Pine were the first to see it - and one of them was the first and only human to shoot at it. He paid for his rashness with instant death.

Within hours the press, the governor and the public knew something strange had happened in Lone Pine and beginning to face the incredible posslbility that Earth now harbored something from outer space. A machine? An intelligent being? There was no way to know.

But Jerry Conklin knew. The visitor had scooped him up, held him prisoner for hours, then let him go - and he had sensed its thoughts and feelings. Jerry knew visitor was a living, intelligent creature.

Then more of the giant black boxes descended to Earth, almost all in the United States. And they began eating... and reproducing. The visitors seemed harmless if left alone. But their powers of defense, and their very existence, threatened world stability. The public, the nation's allies and its enemies demanded more information.

But there was none.

Then Jerry followed up on a rumor and made one more discovery. The visitors were paying for their food and lodging with fantastic gifts. And that payment could destroy Earth's civilization.

Also in this series are A Choice of Gods, A Heritage of Stars, All Flesh Is Grass, Cemetery World, City, Cosmic Engineers, Destiny Doll, Enchanted Pilgrim, Highway of Eternity, Mastodonia (UK title Catface), Our Children's Children, Out of Their Minds, Project Pope, Ring Around the Sun: A Story of Tomorrow, Shakespeare's Planet, Special Deliverance, The Fellowship of the Talisman, The Goblin Reservation, The Trouble with Tycho, The Werewolf Principle, They Walked Like Men, Time and Again, Time Is The Simplest Thing, Way Station, Where the Evil Dwells, Why Call Them Back From Heaven? Return to the Clifford D. Simak page.

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