The Alien (1968, vt The Groundstar Conspiracy 1972), filmed as The Groundstar Conspiracy (1972), about a hospital patient who claims amnesia and may be an Alien (but in the film proves not to be), evokes fairly palely Algis Budrys's seminal Who (1958).
Lee's uncle, Professor Maver, has vanished from his laboratory while trying to enter Dimension A - one of many worlds which he believes exists in the same space as ours. By reconstructing the experiment with the help of Maver's friend, Mr. Leming, impetuous Lee and his cautious, but resourceful
Fletcher Pratt, a nationally famous writer and journalist, produced in ALIEN PLANET one of his most original works which at the same time is a most enthralling science-fiction adventure. What actually would be the effect of the arrival of a citizen of a super scientific planet on our own world? In
The alien queen is dead, the hive mind left to flounder, and on a world bereft of its leader two strains of Alien divide their forces for world-shattering war. On Earth, in the wake of alien infestation, athletes are flocking to humanity's Goodwill Games. But some come with a deadly new tool: a
