Aliens From Space

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It started off like an ordinary day for Dr. Jeffrey

Brewster, assistant professor of psychosociology 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 American-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 Jupiter. 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 security, which he could not

reveal at the moment. He ended with, "We feel that you can 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 University 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

Mathematical Formulation of Information," had something 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 appeared, 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

morning, 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. Brewster had to find out if they were telling the truth--or

the whole truth! Here is a suspenseful novel of a tomorrow which may arrive

before we suspect its possibility, by the author of Invisible Barriers.