[Gutenberg 23799] • Cry from a Far Planet
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- Authors
- Godwin, Tom
- Tags
- human-alien encounters -- fiction , short stories , science fiction
- Date
- 1951-03-11T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.10 MB
- Lang
- en
"A smile of friendship is a baring of the teeth. So is a snarl of menace. It can be fatal to mistake the latter for the former."
"Harm an alien being only under circumstances of self-defense."
TRUST NO ALIEN BEING UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
\--From "Exploration Ship's Handbook"
The problem of separating the friends from the enemies was a major one in the conquest of space as many a dead spacer could have testified. A tough job when you could see an alien and judge appearances; far tougher when they were only whispers on the wind.