A nightmare of violence and terror, in which logic ceases to exist... in which all things are the wild inventions of a deranged mind! They came from places far apart in space and time - and yet, incredibly, the were so closely linked that their very existence was dependent one upon the other.
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
He came from out of the mists of the wasteland to walk the desolate streets of a city crumbling into decay. It was not a place he knew. He had never been there before and the people he met were strangers to him. Yet their names and faces were puzzlingly familiar – as if he had known them long ago…
After a black night of violent storms and a thunderous explosion, the inhabitants of the small, isolated village of Kirdale wake to a strange and terror-filled world.
