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Chargement... Lest earth be conquered (Belmont science fiction) (original 1968; édition 1966)par Frank Belknap Long
Information sur l'oeuvreLest Earth Be Conquered par Frank Belknap Long (1968)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. If aliens were planning to invade Earth, would they send ships full of green-skinned monsters, with guns blazing? Perhaps they would take their time and infiltrate Earth, altered to look and act human, working to undermine Earth from the "inside." Bobby Jackson looks like your average teenager in Anytown, USA (but he really isn't). He has his suspicions about the Martin's, a married couple that just moved in next door. It's as if they are trying too hard to fit in. He sees Mrs. Martin at the local supermarket, holding a tomato like she has never seen one before in her life. No one knows just what Mr. Martin does for a living. Invited into the house for a glass of lemonade, while staring into Mrs. Martin's eyes, Bobby suddenly finds his consciousness transferred into a neighborhood cat that wandered into the house. Bobby's intellectual abilities (his IQ is 150, but he doesn't act like a genius) have gotten Mr. Dyson, his teacher, very curious and a little spooked. After an encounter at the town library, where it seems as if Bobby has been telepathically communicating with Laura Hartley, the town librarian, she sees another man in the library re-arrange his face. She was not supposed to see that, so, soon afterwards, she is kidnapped by unseen forces, right through a blank wall. Bobby also talks to a local encyclopedia salesman, who, soon after ringing the doorbell at the Martin's, and hearing things he shouldn't have heard, finds his consciousness switched with that of a local cat. The focus shifts to a complex of caves on the edge of town, where Bobby brings Mr. Dyson (with help from a telepathic suggestion planted in Mr. Dyson's brain). There they find "the Martin's", along with four other town residents who are not exactly what they seem to be. This book is surprisingly good. It's a "quiet" tale of alien invasion, with real characters, that does a fine job of keeping the reader's interest. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
THE PRIMITIVES Anthropologists tell us that primitive man believed he could be in several places at the same time. He had no sense of time as we understand it, and could think of himself as living in the past and present simultaneously. And the future...? He was convinced, too, that he could, at the same time, be a human being and an animal; space and time held no restrictions for him. And the future...? Suppose it weren't just a primitive fantasy. Suppose such powers were slumbering in some people and could be awakened. The future is now... Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This is a short but pretty good book which keeps the reader interested. The concept of the aliens down the street is fun. This book just needs more flesh. It's a good pulp magazine story but too thin for a really good novel.
Long wrote more then 20 novels and dozens of stories for the SciFi pulps. I haven't given up on him yet but I'm still looking for that, above average, jewel. ( )