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ALIENS FROM SPACE
by DAVID OSBORNE
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It started off like an ordinary day for Dr.
Jeffrey Brewster, assistant professor of psycho-
sociology at Columbia University. He'd been
six weeks old when the first crude satellites
were flung into space, back in 1957. During
his childhood, there had been Moon rockets,
and the space stations—then the joint Ameri-
can-Russian-manned expedition to the Moon
in 1965, right after the collapse of the Soviet
dictatorship. Mars and Venus had been
reached as he grew up, and a permanent base
was established on the Moon in 1973. Now
the day's papers reported that an expedition
was ready to leave for Callisto, moon of Jupi-
ter. But Dr. Brewster had a class to make, and
he was late.
That was when the telephone rang, and
Mari, his wife, said, "Long distance from
Washington."
The caller was Colonel Chasin of Unsecfor
—United Nations Security Force, the global
and international army that policed the world
in these days of relative peace and harmony.
Chasin explained that a serious matter had
come up, something concerning global secu-
rity, which he could not reveal at the mo-
ment. He ended with, "We feel that you can
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help us, Professor. We'd appreciate it if yeu'd
come down to Washington today and join us
in a little conference. President Macintyre will
be leading the discussion."
Brewster couldn't decline—and found that
all arrangements had been made at the Uni-
versity for his indefinite absence.
What could be going on that required the
assistance of a professor of psychosociology"?
Brewster suspected that the book which had
earned him his Ph.D. last year, "A Theory of
Communication: Notes Toward a Mathemati-
cal Formulation of Information," had some-
thing to do with it. But never would he have
suspected what Colonel Chasin told him after
his arrival in Washington.
On Sunday evening, a spaceship had landed
in a Kansas cornfield. An alien being ap-
peared, handed a metal plate to the owner
of the farm, and said in English that he
wanted to see somebody in authority. The
United Nations Security Council met in a
secret emergency session, early Monday morn-
ing, and worked out a program of dealing
with the three aliens. And Dr. Brewster was
one of the nine men selected to negotiate with
the visitors from space!
The beings seemed friendly, seemed to be
here with peaceful intentions, but Dr. Brew-
ster had to find out if they were telling the
truth—or the whole truth! Here is a suspense-
ful novel of a tomorrow which may arrive be-
fore we suspect its possibility, by the author
of Invisible Barriers.
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