Murray Leinster, who has been writing science fiction for more than a generation, has been fascinated by the problem of "first contact" between voyagers from different worlds. How will intelligent beings behave when confronted with so momentous an event? One answer is provided in this story of a young junior lieutenant in a future Space Patrol.

Az idegenek űrhajón érkeztek, és csodálatos ajándékokat hoztak a föld lakóinak. Önműködő, okos gépeket, ismeretlen anyagokat, különös szereket, amelyektől egyetlen éjszaka szárba szökkentek a növények. Olyan világot ígértek, ahol mindenki gazdag lesz, feltéve, ha az övék a kormányzás joga. Szemükből mély megvetés és lenézés sugárzott, az emberek borzongva fogadták el a kegyes ajándékokat, de kevesen tudtak ellenállni az alkunak. Pedig nem volt titok: a grekek embergyűlölők voltak.

Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Aliens. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Murray Leinster, which is now, at last, again available to you. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Aliens: "We picked up no tuned radiation from outer space, sir, but it could be that they picked us up when we came out of overdrive and stopped all their transmissions until they had us in a trap."...But the only fact known about the Plumie civilization came from the cairns and silicon-bronze inscribed tablets they'd left on oxygen-type worlds over a twelve-hundred-light-year range in space, and the only thing to be deduced about the Plumies themselves came from the decorative, formalized symbols like feathery plumes which were found on all their bronze tablets. ...There were more of those inadequate noises as rockets   went out-every tube on the starboard side emptied itself in a series of savage grunts-and the Niccola's magnetronic drive roared at full flux density....The fact that there had been a collision, that the Niccola's engines were melted to unlovely scrap, that the Plumie ship was now welded irremovably to a side-keel, and that a Plumie was signaling to humans while both ships went spinning through space toward an unknown destination-these things did not affect the obligations of the radar room....When he was fully upright, sick with horror at what had come about, there was sunlight yet again, and men   were coming out of the Niccola's air lock, and the Plumie who'd leaped for space was pulling himself back to his own ship again.

Des créatures venues de l'espace vampirisent les terriens. Jim Hunt, un jeune savant condamné pour ses recherches sur le cerveau, s'évade et entreprend la lutte contre ces ET : "les petits amis".